Macs are for people who don't know how to use a computer.
[QUOTE=TamTamJam;20259500]Macs are for people who don't know how to use a computer.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Henry Townshend;20258176]Stop quoting posts and saying "This" it's fucking annoying.
Don't do it to this post either.[/QUOTE]
He'll do what he fucking well wants to, seeing as 90% of Facepunch does this and you're the first to give a shit.
[QUOTE=Lemonator;20258887]No need to be a shitposting prick.
-shitsnip-[/QUOTE]
this
I can do damn well as I please.
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[QUOTE=Mbbird;20260480]He'll do what he fucking well wants to, seeing as 90% of Facepunch does this and you're the first to give a shit.[/QUOTE]
this
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The commercials make Mac users look like elitist tools.
[QUOTE=SuperHoboMan;20262476]The commercials make Mac users look like elitist tools.[/QUOTE]
because most of them are.
I rated you a box.
Commercial campains for one, I mean, wtf?
Honestly, I see no factual reason for hating Macs, they're just another computer. I just hate the elitism that comes along with them.
They're aimed twords creative professionals and people who don't know shit about maintaing a PC. So therefore all PCs suck because house wives and college kids (who only have a Mac because they're parents bought them one because they spent all their money on cannabis) don't know how to use a PC properly.
[QUOTE=Mooee;20264011]Commercial campains for one, I mean, wtf?
Honestly, I see no factual reason for hating Macs, they're just another computer. I just hate the elitism that comes along with them.
They're aimed twords creative professionals and [b]people who don't know shit about maintaing a PC[/b]. So therefore all PCs suck because house wives and college kids (who only have a Mac because they're parents bought them one because they spent all their money on cannabis) don't know how to use a PC properly.[/QUOTE]
Just this part, you can do creative things on windows just as well.
Over priced luxury cars of computers that are so user friendly, theyare worthless to people who actually know how to use a pc.
can't be an elitist pc 'tard on them
ohwait
It's like a car with autopilot so that anyone could drive it, but it only goes to 30 kM/h, it is made out of very cheap parts and you can't repair it youeself if something breaks.
Oh and the autopilot sometimes does shit like instead of driving you to San Francisco, it'll drive you to San Fernando.
I use a MAC...I prefer my mac for my own personal reason....I dont hate PC'S and i don''t bag people who own them. They have it for their reasons, I have it for mine. so WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERYONE LOVE SAYING WE ARE A BUNCH OF RETARDS . I DONT play games on computers anyway. I dont care if there is no right click. I just take 2 seconds of my time to hold control instead. I dont really care if i cant customize it. As long as it's a decent computer that has internet, I tunes and MSN and I didn't pay for it. I don't give a shit! So whats with this whole war on it all. My choice is mine, your choice is yours.
[QUOTE=The golden;20264347]I don't [I]hate [/I]the Mac OS itself, mostly just the company and it's business practices.
I mean, if Mac systems were actually priced reasonably, I think it would be ok. Not everyone is a gamer, and not everyone cares they can't play games.[/QUOTE]
Eh, it's not just games. I'd guess about 80% of everything is made for Windows based OS[I]'s[/I], this includes applications, games, quick fixes, etc. Macs are just a pain in the ass for anyone who wants a computer and not a little toy with 'exclusive' (a bad thing in this case) programs.
Waste of money.
[quote=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/feb/05/comment.media]Unless you have been walking around with your eyes closed, and your head encased in a block of concrete, with a blindfold tied round it, in the dark - unless you have been doing that, you surely can't have failed to notice the current Apple Macintosh campaign starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, which has taken over magazines, newspapers and the internet in a series of brutal coordinated attacks aimed at causing massive loss of resistance. While I don't have anything against shameless promotion per se (after all, within these very brackets I'm promoting my own BBC4 show, which starts tonight at 10pm), there is something infuriating about this particular blitz. In the ads, Webb plays a Mac while Mitchell adopts the mantle of a PC. We know this because they say so right at the start of the ad.
"Hello, I'm a Mac," says Webb.
"And I'm a PC," adds Mitchell.
They then perform a small comic vignette aimed at highlighting the differences between the two computers. So in one, the PC has a "nasty virus" that makes him sneeze like a plague victim; in another, he keeps freezing up and having to reboot. This is a subtle way of saying PCs are unreliable. Mitchell, incidentally, is wearing a nerdy, conservative suit throughout, while Webb is dressed in laid-back contemporary casual wear. This is a subtle way of saying Macs are cool.
The ads are adapted from a near-identical American campaign - the only difference is the use of Mitchell and Webb. They are a logical choice in one sense (everyone likes them), but a curious choice in another, since they are best known for the television series Peep Show - probably the best sitcom of the past five years - in which Mitchell plays a repressed, neurotic underdog, and Webb plays a selfish, self-regarding poseur. So when you see the ads, you think, "PCs are a bit rubbish yet ultimately lovable, whereas Macs are just smug, preening tossers." In other words, it is a devastatingly accurate campaign.
I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
PCs are the ramshackle computers of the people. You can build your own from scratch, then customise it into oblivion. Sometimes you have to slap it to make it work properly, just like the Tardis (Doctor Who, incidentally, would definitely use a PC). PCs have charm; Macs ooze pretension. When I sit down to use a Mac, the first thing I think is, "I hate Macs", and then I think, "Why has this rubbish aspirational ornament only got one mouse button?" Losing that second mouse button feels like losing a limb. If the ads were really honest, Webb would be standing there with one arm, struggling to open a packet of peanuts while Mitchell effortlessly tore his apart with both hands. But then, if the ads were really honest, Webb would be dressed in unbelievably po-faced avant-garde clothing with a gigantic glowing apple on his back. And instead of conducting a proper conversation, he would be repeatedly congratulating himself for looking so cool, and banging on about how he was going to use his new laptop to write a novel, without ever getting round to doing it, like a mediocre idiot.
Cue 10 years of nasal bleating from Mac-likers who profess to like Macs not because they are fashionable, but because "they are just better". Mac owners often sneer that kind of defence back at you when you mock their silly, posturing contraptions, because in doing so, you have inadvertently put your finger on the dark fear haunting their feeble, quivering soul - that in some sense, they are a superficial semi-person assembled from packaging; an infinitely sad, second-rate replicant who doesn't really know what they are doing here, but feels vaguely significant and creative each time they gaze at their sleek designer machine. And the more deftly constructed and wittily argued their defence, the more terrified and wounded they secretly are.
Aside from crowing about sartorial differences, the adverts also make a big deal about PCs being associated with "work stuff" (Boo! Offices! Boo!), as opposed to Macs, which are apparently better at "fun stuff". How insecure is that? And how inaccurate? Better at "fun stuff", my arse. The only way to have fun with a Mac is to poke its insufferable owner in the eye. For proof, stroll into any decent games shop and cast your eye over the exhaustive range of cutting-edge computer games available exclusively for the PC, then compare that with the sort of rubbish you get on the Mac. Myst, the most pompous and boring videogame of all time, a plodding, dismal "adventure" in which you wandered around solving tedious puzzles in a rubbish magic kingdom apparently modelled on pretentious album covers, originated on the Mac in 1993. That same year, the first shoot-'em-up game, Doom, was released on the PC. This tells you all you will ever need to know about the Mac's relationship with "fun".
Ultimately the campaign's biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. Of course, that hasn't stopped me slagging off Mac owners, with a series of sweeping generalisations, for the past 900 words, but that is what the ads do to PCs. Besides, that's what we PC owners are like - unreliable, idiosyncratic and gleefully unfair. And if you'll excuse me now, I feel an unexpected crash coming.[/quote]
[QUOTE=darcy010;20264360]I use a MAC...I prefer my mac for my own personal reason....I dont hate PC'S and i don''t bag people who own them. They have it for their reasons, I have it for mine. so [b]WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERYONE LOVE SAYING WE ARE A BUNCH OF RETARDS . I DONT[/b] play games on computers anyway. I dont care if there is no right click. I just take 2 seconds of my time to hold control instead. I dont really care if i cant customize it. As long as it's a decent computer that has internet, I tunes and MSN and I didn't pay for it. I don't give a shit! So whats with this whole war on it all. My choice is mine, your choice is yours.[/QUOTE]
Because using caps lock in the middle of a sentence doesn't make a sound argument.
Makes you sound retarded. I know people who think Mac's are better, and yet, the reason is because they are simple; this retard couldn't use a PC because it was too hard, and yet, says he knows more about computers. I.E, Mac User.
They're expensive and have shitty specs. That's about the only reason I dislike them. They look really cool, but I just can't justify spending so much on such a low-powered computer.
A PC is commonly something you have built yourself.
You know every noise it make when it boots up, you know what it is capable of and what it can be capable of.
Plus there are thousands of cool games you can get for a computer that are not for macs.
Plus fore the same price you can get a computer that is twice the power of a mac.
MACS are faceless. soulless androids churned out buy the apple industry machine.
You cant play any games on them :| Atleast not Steam games
[QUOTE=john_pelphre;20266674]Because using caps lock in the middle of a sentence doesn't make a sound argument.
Makes you sound retarded. I know people who think Mac's are better, and yet, the reason is because they are simple; this retard couldn't use a PC because it was too hard, and yet, says he knows more about computers. I.E, Mac User.[/QUOTE]
I used caps lock on purpose to symbolize me yelling. I do it in most of my 'angry' posts...
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;20266141]Mac rant[/QUOTE]
I agree with most of it. Except that the author insulted FUCKING MYST and said that doom was main shooter and only on PC. I am pretty sure the Mac version did come in time, and the author completely missed the fucking MARATHON series.
And then entire Mac gaming industry died. There goes large portion of market share.
Mac is like a modern mmo.
It's a dumbed down version of a previous product.
[QUOTE=thisguy123;20268239]A PC is commonly something you have built yourself.
You know every noise it make when it boots up, you know what it is capable of and what it can be capable of.
Plus there are thousands of cool games you can get for a computer that are not for macs.
Plus fore the same price you can get a computer that is twice the power of a mac.
MACS are faceless. soulless androids churned out buy the apple industry machine.[/QUOTE]
Holy shit... I am so quoting this now.
They don't allow for [I]any[/I] customization.
They're the computer equivalent of suburban cookie cutter housing, and are just completely void of character.
But you gotta admit, they got some pretty cool UI/appearance stuff.
They're overpriced and I can do everything they can do on my PC 10x faster and better. Also I'm a gamer and macs are gaming illiterate.
Way too many to list, but a few of my "favorites":
-Macs are most definitely NOT better office computers than PC.
-why buy such and incredibly expensive shiny box that does very little, when you can buy something half the price(or less) that does many times more?
-Macs boast that their creative tools are better than PC's, but you can download equally good, if not better, tools on PC's for much less.
-They say that you can now run Windows on Macs. THAT'S THE MOST FUCKING RETARDED STATEMENT I'VE HEARD. I don't even need to explain.
-Video games. Enough said.
-Dual-booting doesn't mean that you computer automatically runs faster, as Mac's like to say.
-Processing power isn't nearly as capable as PC's are.
-I hate browsing the Internet on Safari. Multiple reasons that I will not explore right now.
-Just because it's sleek, shiny, and has all these fancy gadgets, doesn't mean it's automatically a good computer.
-Mac lovers will try to argue that Apple makes better handheld devices than PC's. That may be true, but Microsoft DOESN'T FOCUS ON HANDHELDS!! They focus on computers, which is what it was made for in the first place people!!
-You can't program you Macs (C#, C++, etc.) unlike PC's.
-I may be wrong on this, but I've heard that you can't even interchange your MAC's hardware. If that's true, then that's just downright pitiful.
tl;dr a rant on why MACs are a horrible excuse for computers.
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