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]

the reason i think so many PC users are pissed off by these commercials is because, unlike ctrl-alt-del or penny arcade, Apple is actually sponsoring this.

also, those spoofs are obviously VERY rediculous or use very solid facts (mainly the game library point.... and thats about it i think). the apple commercials tend to exaggerate the facts to suit them. to say that Macs have no viruses and that every PC gets them is stretching the truth quite a bit. also, those old "i got the blue screen of death everytime" ads from way back when.

and that a professional company would sponsor attacks against PC USERS, well, i think thats one of the huge reasons PC users have suddenly become so defensive. if a satrical comic or some PC fanboy attacks a mac or its user, well thats easy to take with a grain of salt. to see professional ads cooked up by the Apple PR department, well thats a bit harder to take with a light heart. sice theyre actually not THAT funny.

other comics lampoon PCs (there was one with birds, and windows kept bragging that its new nest would have an elevator and stuff, but the mac pointed out that yet again the upgrade was delayed.) and those dont create nearly that much animosity and are easy to laugh at. (i actually like the mac windows linux bird one.)