Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse?

The Guardian ^ | 9/28/09 | Charlie Brooker

[pburgh01]

Yep. I watched the video. Guess Microsoft’s just working on its new slogan — “Windows 7, the new Tupperware.”

I saw a study recently, that over 60% of TV commercials have an African American in them. Funny that with what 14% of the population and of that 50% below the poverty line you need to ram that demographic down our throats? I don’t mind the people of any color, its the left wing media trying to install some permanent Black Socialist Hegemony at the top of our political and economic structure. Sorry but when 90%+ of the black community supports an avowed socialist I can’t help thinking, as a culture they all think that way. Reminds me of the Nazi posters with all those blonde haired square jawed men. Pandering a trendy racial stereotype for some ulterior motive.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

Great microcosm of this whole argument.

As a ‘pc’, you (or others):
1. want to build/change computers
2. run software on windows
3. game

then, go on to tell mac folks to not ‘feel compelled to tell me about it or tell me it’s better for me’.

It is ok if you want to use a pc. really. you don’t have to justify it. and I won’t justify my more expensive mac purchases. nor start threads just to go ‘neener neener neener’. really...it is ok...

[Little Pig]

And linux is that Cobra kit car you have in the garage, which you’re forever tinkering with, upgrading, and trying to get the fuse block wired right on, but which absolutely smokes the chevy or the corolla.

[Lazamataz]

[Little Pig]

Oh, and I’d put the Mac more into the Prius category, because it is a car you turn on, not start, and has a lot of whizbang gadgets, many of which are just eye candy. The technology is cool, but it isn’t really much better than any other vehicle at being transportation.

[Lazamataz]

[Lazamataz]

[Lazamataz]

[Lazamataz]

[sbMKE]

MAC genius says, “If it breaks, ghost it.”

[stentorian conservative]

FWIW, my son said he wants windows for WoW. He hates playing it on the Mac.

He’s saving up for it and I’m matching him dollar for dollar.

[IYAS9YAS]

Vista, not imonks or isnobbery, is why I bought a Mac.

I have had no problems with my Vista machine. I am, however, looking forward to Windows 7.

[paulycy]

What guy?

(PS: Now that you mention it, it could be a racism test, too.)

[Syntyr]

“I have had no problems with my Vista machine.”

I have been running Windows Vista Ultimate for 2 years now. It runs perfect. It took me about a week to beat it into working the way I wanted it to but I like a lot of customized options. Little stuff that I liked on XP. But once I got it there it has been rock solid. I reboot like once a month. When I do from power on to desktop is 31 seconds. I install and uninstall tons of games. I install test and remove lots of software (I used my computer as a first level sandbox for new software at work).

As always YMMV but I have Windows Vista running on my home PC’s and two laptops and have been very happy with it.

[billakay]

I have to agree with this. I have been a PC/Windows user for most of my life. I built a consulting business from the time I was 13 repairing PCs, and installing (mostly) Windows-based networks.

I was always drawn to Unix/Linux, and usually had a copy running in some form or another, but never could switch full-time, mostly due to the "oh but so and so won't run on it" excuse. Of course, I wouldn't even consider Macs and the pile of excrement that was OS 9, which lets face it, by any technical standards was a terribly dated OS towards the end.

Last year, in my first semester of graduate school (I am working on a Ph.D. in Computer Science), I decided that enough was enough, and I was done with Windows. I needed a new computer, and had been playing with a few Mac OS X machines at college. I took the plunge and bought a used Mac.

Now, I can't see myself going back. The quality of the OS is superb, it has a standard UNIX system under the hood (Mach kernel), a standard UNIX (FreeBSD) userspace, X11 support, and it runs all the programs I need. If I find something that needs Windows, I fire up a VM. If it's something that needs UNIX, chances are I can recompile it and it will work fine. Also, in my office, I have a departmental Linux machine. Almost everything I do here can come home with me in some way.

Also, did I mention that I happen to be a conservative? :-P

[mkjessup]

OK, fine.
“Get yourself a real computer, kid!”
There, happy now? Go away. :^)

Boy, you iSnobs are really getting touchy.

[Syntyr]

Looking through the comments I just found this image.

[aruanan]

Looks like Apple's been pissing all over themselves for more than 3 years now.

Wow, you still don't get it, do you? The computer that can do "all the above" is the better computer. Apple can even do Windows whereas Windows even has trouble doing Windows.

[ace2u_in_MD]

Games? Isn’t that what consoles are for? I have not played a game on a PC since the Mechwarrior series in the 90’s.

Now, here is what we did with our Mac centric home set-up, all without breaking a sweat...

We had the Church’s Youth Group end of year and start of year parties at our house. Each party went on for hours. Parents and kids came and went, most with some sort of digital camera. Prior to each person leaving, we hooked up their camera to our Mac Mini in the office and downloaded the pictures into iPhoto. No drivers, no software required. It just works. After each download, iTunes would then sync the new photos from the Mac Mini (via our Time Capsule) to our AppleTV, which displayed the photos in a random order on our Plasma TV in the great room for the parents to see what they have missed.

During that time, I had a “Youth Group Pool Party Mix” playing via AirTunes from the Mac Mini wirelessly to the pool stereo via an Airport Express.

After the party, we pushed the photos to our MobileMe account and e-maild to all youth group parents the link to see and download the photos.

It. Just. Works. I would hate to try this on a Windows eco-system...

[mkjessup]

No, it is YOU who manifested yourself as did Pogo, i.e. "you has met the enemy and he is you", you were chortling about Windows 'smelling like urine in a subway' and now you're all flustered because Apple itself introduced software to allow it's machines to run Windows after they began using (ahem) Intel processors.

Give your head a shake, caress your iMouse while murmuring soft iNothings into your iMicrophone, professing your eternal love for all things Apple.

And lighten up Francis.