macs suck., pcs rule. Options

[sadolakced acid]

well, really, it's just a friendly mac v pc thread, and i know it's been posted before, but really, more people will click here if i name it 'macs suck'

my beef with macs-

i used mac OS way back when. bad experiences. not too much a legitimate reason today, but a reason none the less.

but the major one:

proprietary.

i don't know about now, but i know before that everything apple makes, they make it proprietary if they can.

for example, a PC owner can easily upgrade thier optical drive. they could pop in some more memory, or add in a new sound card.

now, sure, mac hardware may be good already, but you won't deny it's not the best, that would be much too expensive.

and as time goes by, it means the only way to upgrade is with a totally new computer.

i mean, sure, it works fine for people who don't want to be bothered to upgrade thier computers, and for the average user, macs are probably pretty good.

but i can't be hassled to buy a new comptuer if i want a CD burner and don't have one.

now, maybe apple has changed and i'm not up with the times. but irregardlessly, i severly dislike and avoid any company that insists on proprietary measures at any time.

which is why i do, and probably always will, hate apple.

[lanbexx]

my biggest beef with macs is apple and its fans. mipadi, actually a LOT of mac users are basically pricks with money. admittedly, youre not really in that category because you hold a lot of knowledge. but most mac users think that since theyre using a mac, theyre suddenly in an elitest group that is better than "normal" PC users. and apple doesnt help at all. looking at some of their most recent commercials and its pretty blatant. unlike most PC commercials that stress good deals or better performance than comptetitors, Mac commercials just feed into the eliteist idea that if ur a Mac user, ur better than everyone else. The whole brown box commercial vs the Mac commercial, anyone? and that whole "i moved to mac cause of the dreaded blue screen" commercials? Mac users tend to eat up everything Apple says and just repeat it. kinda like how one jock says something retarded, every other jock will laugh. and apple also shows its arrogance even in its marketing. Apple tried to liscense the i____ name (ipod, itrip) because they thought it was an infringement on their profits, even tho they didnt make any effort until the market exploded with those addons. another one, why not let PC users use OSX legally on their computers, instead of holding it really really close to their chest and yelling at hackers who break through their code and discover flaws, yet proclaim that using windows on macs is a totally justified and should be advocated for? because they dont like playing fair

so ill be quite a bit happier with macs and their users (even if not as much as PCs) when apple stops lying and acting like like theyre better than everyone else.