I don’t live under a rock, but I *DO* work for a living, and hadn’t heard about this development.
Fortunately, this was (evidently by your comment) posted more than once, giving folks like myself who do things other than obsess over Macs an opportunity to learn of this new problem.
I don’t hate Macs, but I sure find the snobbery and arrognace inherent in Mac fans quite distasteful and off-putting. I’ll bet Obama (ptui) is a Mac fan: It would suit his self-image.
>>>I don’t hate Macs, but I sure find the snobbery and arrognace inherent in Mac fans quite distasteful and off-putting. I’ll bet Obama (ptui) is a Mac fan: It would suit his self-image.
Equally off-poutting is the unbridled arrogance of Windows users who go out of their way to demean people who don’t drink Bill Gates’ kool-aid. And the wazoo apertures who paint Mac users as good time plastic banana dope smoking maggot infested liberals. It’s bigotry. Stereotyping. And it’s wrong. People here should be above that... but they’re not.
I do live under a rock (and I kinda like it), and am currently unemployed, and this is only the second time I have found a thread on FR about it.
I have been building/using/programming computers of all kinds since I was a child. I worked for large companies and government agencies, and we had mainframes, minicomputers, IBM/clone PC’s and MACs.
One of the things I found out was that people defend vigorously, and often blindly, the thing with which they are MOST FAMILIAR. The younger they were, the more they claimed to know.
Whether it be hardware, or software, or even how they manually do their job, most of them become locked into the idea that they ‘know it all’.
I’ve had people tell me that a well known graphics software was the best. It was the software, of course, they were using to do their job. I asked one of these people what other product had he used. The answer was ‘none’.
So.... a real computer genius knows this.
If you haven’t used both a MAC and PC you should. Both have their advantages. There is a reason there isn’t just one model of car on the road. The competitiveness between the two, is a good thing. Some people choose a PC or MAC based on a truly educated plan, and others do so because their friend has one.
A REAL computer genius, would have, and use, both.