“Well, aren’t you special”
Is it just only all about you, and how incredibly intelligent you are, compared to all of us clueless fools out here in fly-over land.
Are you trying to be the first to get voted off the island, for being a jerk?
Many of us made a very good living using Macs, and never had to have an expensive IT team to keep us up and running 24/7, and we managed to keep investors very happy as we were entrusted with more of their money than you ever dreamed of making.
My husband was an MIT graduate, and would never switch to a PC. But, he was an independent thinker, and ran his own profitable business, unlike most of you cubicle drones.
Sorry if I am being harsh. It is late, and I miss him so much. And you Mac haters are so blind to the bigger picture.
A computer is just a tool one uses to get a specific job accomplished. Your job requires one type of tool - but your expertise in that specific use doesn’t qualify you as any kind of expert in what works in endeavors outside of your narrow specialty.
In short, stuff it, or risk being tossed off the island, because you offer nothing but negativity, caused by your lack of vision. You seem only able to feel the tail of the elephant, and have missed the whole of the animal.
I do not state My positions based upon some archaic designations of "I am better than Thee", but upon some real world experience in the electronics industry.
Macophiles are all the same. The equivalent of the French who view anyone who does not fluently speak the true and unaccented lingua franca as truly beneath contempt. "American TOURISTTE -I spit upon you! Patoooie! Patooie!"
I know hardware. I know a bit about coding. I can recognize a good painting from the graffiti sprayed upon walls, and readily acknowledge the skills inherent upon the artists I have known throughout life. That is not the same as giving the same due as those individuals who can understand and work with machine code, as those are two very separate disciplines.
I do not denigrate macs for what capabilities they possess. If I ever wish to create My own version of a Monet, I might look at a mac indeed. If I wish to play a very realistic computer game then I would indeed look at a PS2 or xbox for that.
Merely stating that those platforms are not designed to accommodate some true processing power should not in any way equate to lessening what they are capable of. You can run a business, I suppose, on a mac. After all, they can handle forms and printing things quite well. However, immediately assuming that because they can work smoothly with graphics-based applications means that they can handle anything else there is... is, I hesitate to inform you, not realistic.
They can do pretty pictures and cute fonts well, or so I am told.
For real-world computing tasks... sorry, but other platforms are far better suited.
If you are offended by that for whatever reason(s)...
I have no method I can think of available to Me to convince you that responding emotionally to a task in the real world is not the best way available to accomplish the majority of challenges that come about. For personal interactions, perhaps. For computational requirements, not so much.
Enjoy your mac. And your memories. When I need to design a critical component, your emotionally-laden comments will help not a whit when I need to create something that lives may depend upon.
But a pretty picture might help afterwards, if you like.
As far as "money" is concerned, I have never spoken about it in any of My posts. It seems to be of great concern to you, however, so enjoy by all means. I will not discuss such matters as monetary wealth with you or anyone else in this or any other forum.
As far as being only able to see the "tail of the elephant", I am not the one who descended to anatomical references in order to attempt to denigrate another with such poor attempts of humor in lieu of realistic refutations, and your attempts to mitigate My statements thus far are assuredly not addressing the points I addressed, if not purposefully disingenuous at least in part. Or deflective at the very least, in particular in regards to the points I illustrated in My original post.
I am truly sorry of you are offended by it.. no, actually I think not. If the only response you are willing to offer is that a graphics boxen is no less useful than a machine capable of processing more engineering- and physics- related computations, then nothing I can say will change your emotionally-invested viewpoint.
That does not mean I will ever look for a mac, xbox, or ps2 to accomplish the computations that I am determined to solve at any time. Paint a picture? probably. Design a flyer? OK. Layout a newspaper -sure. Even play a computer game I can certainly see.
Even macs have their useage, after all.