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.

[*mipadi*]

If you want to hate Apple, hate Apple. If you want to turn this from a "Macs suck" into an "Apple sucks" thread, then go right ahead. But I'll point out that, while it's easy to say, "I don't like Macintoshes" (it is, after all, an opinion, and an opinion doesn't need to be justified to others per se), it seems to be rather hard to argue the more general statement "Macs suck", as evidenced most of the posters who replied "Macs suck" have since retreated to "Well, let's just argue that Apple sucks." Kind of proves an earlier point I made: That one might not prefer Macintoshes, but it's hard to say that they're worthless machines.

I think of the new Apple ads as comical, even whimsical in nature. While they are meant to sell a product, I think (like many ads) they are to be taken with a grain of salt. They're fun. They're not meant to be below-the-belt insults, and I think if a PC user is seriously offended by them, he needs to check his sense of humor. Look at how often gaming-centric sites like Ctrl-Alt-Del or Penny Arcade! make jokes about Macs. Are there hordes of people running around saying how they hate those artists for making a few jokes? And remember how often those old Apple switcher ads were lampooned? Some of those parodies were pretty funny. PC users (and Mac users alike) had a good laugh making and watching those—but it seems when the tables are turned, and Apple/Mac users are poking fun at PCs, PC user are all too quick to drop their senses of humor and cry foul.

[forza]

If you want to hate Apple, hate Apple. If you want to turn this from a "Macs suck" into an "Apple sucks" thread, then go right ahead. But I'll point out that, while it's easy to say, "I don't like Macintoshes" (it is, after all, an opinion, and an opinion doesn't need to be justified to others per se), it seems to be rather hard to argue the more general statement "Macs suck", as evidenced most of the posters who replied "Macs suck" have since retreated to "Well, let's just argue that Apple sucks." Kind of proves an earlier point I made: That one might not prefer Macintoshes, but it's hard to say that they're worthless machines.

I think of the new Apple ads as comical, even whimsical in nature. While they are meant to sell a product, I think (like many ads) they are to be taken with a grain of salt. They're fun. They're not meant to be below-the-belt insults, and I think if a PC user is seriously offended by them, he needs to check his sense of humor. Look at how often gaming-centric sites like Ctrl-Alt-Del or Penny Arcade! make jokes about Macs. Are there hordes of people running around saying how they hate those artists for making a few jokes? And remember how often those old Apple switcher ads were lampooned? Some of those parodies were pretty funny. PC users (and Mac users alike) had a good laugh making and watching those—but it seems when the tables are turned, and Apple/Mac users are poking fun at PCs, PC user are all too quick to drop their senses of humor and cry foul.

Yeah, but I still want to slap the douchebag actor that plays in them. He reeks of Steve Jobs' ass and stale marijuana, and yes, I have a TV that powerful.

Seriously, why didn't Steve Jobs just play that part? You know he wrote the script...