Posted on 09/28/2009 4:49:55 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Windows works for me. But I'd never recommend it to anybody else, ever.
I admit it: I'm a bigot. A hopeless bigot at that: I know my particular prejudice is absurd, but I just can't control it. It's Apple. I don't like Apple products. And the better-designed and more ubiquitous they become, the more I dislike them. I blame the customers. Awful people. Awful. Stop showing me your iPhone. Stop stroking your Macbook. Stop telling me to get one.
Seriously, stop it. I don't care if Mac stuff is better. I don't care if Mac stuff is cool. I don't care if every Mac product comes equipped a magic button on the side that causes it to piddle gold coins and resurrect the dead and make holographic unicorns dance inside your head. I'm not buying one, so shut up and go home. Go back to your house. I know, you've got an iHouse. The walls are brushed aluminum. There's a glowing Apple logo on the roof. And you love it there. You absolute MONSTER.
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On the other hand, I look at what is on the desks and lab tables of many of the research scientists featured on Discovery Channel, Science Channel, Smithsonian Channel, etc., in their own working environment, and about 70% of the time, it's a Mac. These are NOT product placement props placed their because their handy around a studio; they are there because the scientists have opted to use them.
When asked why they have selected to use a Mac, many of the scientists say that the Mac is preferred because it is UNIX and will run 100% of the UNIX applications that have been developed for research over the years... but still has an easy, intuitive user interface with professional level software for writing reports and scientific papers. In addition, if there is a Windows only applications that they simply must use, it will run on the Mac, as well.
I have to disagree. The iMac was introduced in 1998. At that time, PCs were full color Windows 95/98. What they would have is an obsolete floppy drive, an obsolete serial port, a well on its way to being obsolete parallel port and no USB port (or if it did, it didn't work too well!).
However considering your obvious anger issues, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that your significant other will one day slash their wrists.
Be sure you have his insurance premiums up to date first.
You'll have to give me a demo as I am unfamiliar with this "G.F.Y" - but I suspect you have experience with it when Beavis is out for the night.
Me too - right after I force myself to push out all the free lip time Rush Limbaugh has given Apple over the years, considering that he is a high-profile Apple fan. That and the fact that I sit here typing on my 5 year-old PowerMac G5 dual 1.8Ghz and getting ready to go to bed.
Me too - right after I force myself to push out all the free lip time Rush Limbaugh has given Apple over the years, considering that he is a high-profile Apple fan. That and the fact that I sit here typing on my 5 year-old PowerMac G5 dual 1.8Ghz and getting ready to go to bed.
Yep there are lotos of conservatives that use mac. I ,my husband and several other conservatives I know do too. There is a photo online somewhere posted of Bush using his notebook, I saw it while the recount was going on in 2000.
Looks more like a retired UNIX developer! :-)
Can someone figure this chart out - it is the Windows 7 upgrade chart -—
My work laptop is an HP machine, currently running Vista Home Premium - and meets the tech specs easily for Windows 7. BUT- for whatever reason, HP decided to ship the machine with the 32-bit version of Vista Home Premium...
So, it looks like a royal pain in the tail to upgrade...
If you must piss, Apple has provided a discrete place where it won't get all over the carpet.
Are there really that many that don't work with NVidia?
Linux is great but the desktop environments are confusing. I’m so much more comfortable in the command line environment in Linux. Using the GNOME Desktop or KDE desktop environments is surreal and really quite frustrating.
I like Macs. And with so much open source software available for Linux available for the Mac, if and when I need something I can usually download it and compile it just like any other Linux geek.
Elitist, yes; in many ways.
Liberal, no.
I adore my Mac, even though at the moment I'm on an XP box.
But my first love is
Cheers!
Cheers!
You did the right thing. Macs aren’t the “right tool” for everybody. And because you helped her by putting her requirements first she’ll respect your opinion later on when she is looking at maybe getting a personal computer and her budget and requirements are more flexible.
I used to work for an Apple Specialist. There were always a few people who came in looking at Macs but when I’d finally manage to drag their list of requirements out of them I’d recommend a Windows PC to them because that’s what they knew they needed (and they did) and they were just shopping in a Mac store because they heard Macs were really great (which they are).
Apply the correct tool the the problem, and it isn’t always going to be a Mac.
roflmao - i swear i didn’t realize there was a guy in the background until i read the caption, so saving this and sending it on.
Heed your own advice.
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