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.

[sadolakced acid]

well, i've never had to install drivers for any camera either. it is also that easy. i simply plug it in. sometimes windows searches for drivers online, but it does that without me. i plug it in, and in a minute or so, it's ready to go.

i'm pretty sure that if i plug in an ipod, i have to install itunes (that buggers me)

what do i like about my computer? it works. i have the programs i want on it. almost every program i find online or in a store works with it.

i spent a lot of time hating windows and bill gates before. but really, what's so sucky about it?

sure, ME sucked, and gave me BSODs twice a year, but i've never had a BSOD with XP.

i believe i've had one or two crashes where i tried to open files that were just too big for my RAM. but then, i bought some RAM and popped it in. i didn't hvae to go to my computer manufacturer for it, just staples. it was pretty cheap as well.

but since this is a macs suck thread, i'll get back on topic:

- macs run hot. i know the laptops do, but i don't know about the desktops. i assume they run about the same temperature, since they are basically laptops on stands.

- the OS is not intuitive. this is based on use of the old OS, so it might have changed, but i have a feeling that these quirks are still in effect.

for example, to eject a floppy, you drag the drive to trash. i remember learning this as a kid- it didn't make sense to me. i didn't want to throw away the floppy- i just wanted it back. a rightclick -> eject would have been more intuitive in my mind.

and another, shutdown is in special. not the apple symbol, but special. i, who used macs a lot as a kid, did not remember this and spent 10 minutes trying to shut down the old mac in my physics class. the menus are not at all intuitivly named. i mean, special? that could be anything. and the apple symbol? that's not even a name! it's even more confusing.

the macs i used didn't have second mouse buttons, so that was also quite annoying. very quite annoying, and instead of using the rightclick, i had to search through many menus for the item i wanted.

the menu bar at the top, not on the program window. this is quite annoying- you have to look to see which program you have selected before you use the menu bar, or you could delete the wrong thing. i know i hardly even use the menu bar on most my programs, so i'd imagine the menu bar is just dead weight, taking up screen space.

stupid error messages! i tried to print something, and it ran out of paper. instead of telling me that, or even there was a problem printing, the mac told me... finder needs attention!
i mean, what the hell? what the hell is finder? i never figured it out. but i suppose it was something that would have said "you ran out of paper". it's like if there were a fire, and you called 911 and told them "hey, if you go to this building and look west, you can see the problem".

stupid startup order. i don't know if this applies now, but on the old macs i remember having to turn on the accessories in a specific order, or they wouldn't work properly.

- the computers look girly. i just felt like saying that.