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benign · Dec 23, 2004, 04:21 PM

Why I prefer Windows to Macintosh:

I know, I know, I'm a "creative". I'm supposed to prefer Macintosh. However:

1. I spent 15 years in advertising, surrounded by Macintoshes and Macintosh lovers. After a while they both got annoying.

2. After you reach a certain age you start resenting being told to "think different" by rich, khaki-wearing Californians. Especially when you already know how to think differently, thank you very much.

3. There is a new, annoying trend in tailoring of sewing the tailor's label on the outside. The wearer thinks he is being cool and hip, when in fact the message he is sending out is "I know nothing of suits, tailoring or anything of substance, really. I'm a clueless nonentity who's desperate to be taken seriously by his equally unremarkable hipster peers."

Metaphorically, Apple wears its label on the outside. And it appeals to people who do likewise.

4. Steve Jobs really wants to be in the movie business. So do all his customers.

5. The fact that if I write anything even remotely negative about Macintosh means I'll have these saddo no-life Mac users start sending me hate mail.

6. If Apple had a human voice, it would sound like Douglas Coupland.

7. A big part of Apple's income comes from reinforcing the idea to impressionable, young people that it is entirely possible to make a great living without ever having to get a real job.

8. For six months this year, I had an iMac at work and a 5-year-old second hand Dell at home. I prefered using the Dell.

9. If Windows disappeared tomorrow, somebody else would come along and fill their shoes without a lot of fuss. If Macintosh disappeared tomorrow, we'd have all these mass-gathering candlelight vigils, with everybody singing "Imagine".

10. When I was in high school, people who were overly into hipster brands were routinely taken behind the bike sheds and savagely pummeled. That is the natural order of things.

Originally posted by hugh:
http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_T...es/001134.html

Check the comments...

itai195 · 04:39 PM

It takes real intellect to pick on a harmless minority of computer users. But what's up with #7 anyway? This guy is the reincarnation of John Dvorak.

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Dec 23, 2004, 04:33 PM

Well that was a complete bore.

macaddict0001 · Dec 23, 2004, 04:40 PM

Go take a long hot shower and you will feel better, much better.

lavar78 · Dec 23, 2004, 04:40 PM

Originally posted by benign:
4. Steve Jobs really wants to be in the movie business.

Good thing for him he already is, eh?

SafariX · Dec 23, 2004, 04:42 PM

Zzzzzz.

insha · Dec 23, 2004, 04:51 PM

Somebody needs to get laid. Pronto!*

*Don't know why posted in this thread... got... to... resist...

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Dec 23, 2004, 05:05 PM

Originally posted by benign:
8. For six months this year, I had an iMac at work and a 5-year-old second hand Dell at home. I prefered using the Dell.

Well I am totally sold after that point!

Goldfinger · Dec 23, 2004, 05:22 PM

Originally posted by benign:
9. If Windows disappeared tomorrow, somebody else would come along and fill their shoes without a lot of fuss. If Macintosh disappeared tomorrow, we'd have all these mass-gathering candlelight vigils, with everybody singing "Imagine".

GoGoReggieXPowars · Dec 23, 2004, 05:28 PM

Another anti-Mac troll, another thousand hits. *Yawn*

nredman · Dec 23, 2004, 05:30 PM

i like big butts and i can not lie.

awaspaas · Dec 23, 2004, 05:31 PM

This thread make me sleepy. I just so sleepy now... Zzzzz

/lazy Mexican in South Park's tolerance museum

thesearcher · Dec 23, 2004, 05:36 PM

5. The fact that if I write anything even remotely negative about Macintosh means I'll have these saddo no-life Mac zealots (and not the average users) start sending me hate mail.

Fixed.

CreepingDeth · Dec 23, 2004, 05:51 PM

Apple Pro Underwear · Dec 23, 2004, 06:03 PM

all your points are f*cking stupid

I use a mac at work and a windows at home andthere are plenty of good, non stupid reasons windows is better

stop being an asswipe and make a logical argument and make this thread non stupid... stupid

hagheid · Dec 23, 2004, 06:36 PM

Think Laminate

CreepingDeth · Dec 23, 2004, 06:42 PM

Originally posted by hagheid:

Think Laminate

Hmm, is that a 3 inch thick Pentium II laptop on the desk?

Cubeoid · Dec 23, 2004, 06:47 PM

Originally posted by awaspaas:

/lazy Mexican in South Park's tolerance museum

hagheid · Dec 23, 2004, 06:53 PM

Originally posted by CreepingDeth:
Hmm, is that a 3 inch thick Pentium II laptop on the desk?

I think the owner of this rig has never seen anything 3" thick, or long for that matter.

CreepingDeth · Dec 23, 2004, 06:58 PM

Originally posted by hagheid:
I think the owner of this rig has never seen anything 3" thick, or long for that matter.

So many different ways to misrepresent!

[/Strong Bad]

MacGorilla · Dec 23, 2004, 07:13 PM

Originally posted by hagheid:
I think the owner of this rig has never seen anything 3" thick, or long for that matter.

Must resist....

CreepingDeth · Dec 23, 2004, 07:22 PM

Originally posted by MacGorilla:
Must resist....

I feel your pain!

Damnit, another one! Too easy to make a joke! AGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!

hagheid · Dec 23, 2004, 07:40 PM

O.K. it's late but perhaps there is one point of pertinance

unremarkable hipster peers.

mikemako · 07:53 PM

It would make more sense if the title was "Why I prefer Microsoft to Apple". Your points have nothing to do with either company's operating systems (Windows or Macintosh OS).

Kilbey · 11:05 PM

Originally posted by nredman:
i like big butts and i can not lie.

You other brothas can't deny.

EDIT ALERT!!!: I removed the " ' " that I had on the word "brother's". I didn't mean for it to sound possessive. Or even "brother is". Because that would have been completely grammatically a disaster. I meant the word in a way that would indicate plural. As in many brothers.

I also edited the word to read phonetically correct. Instead of "brothers" I spelled it "brothas".

Mafia · Dec 23, 2004, 09:16 PM

10 reasons why i prefer steak to hamburgers, blah blah blah

CreepingDeth · Dec 23, 2004, 09:25 PM

Originally posted by Kilbey:
You other brother's can't deny.

When some damn rap song from Nineteen Ninety Nine is posted on a thread you get jack ****.

Yeauh.

Kilbey · Dec 23, 2004, 09:31 PM

Originally posted by CreepingDeth:
When some damn rap song from Nineteen Ninety Nine is posted on a thread you get jack ****.

Yeauh.

1999?!?! 1992 !

hayesk · Dec 23, 2004, 09:36 PM

Isn't it funny that not a single one of your reasons actually explains why you prefer Windows to a Macintosh?

In fact, most are about how you don't like the stereotyped Mac user culture.

So in reality, you don't like some weird culture of Mac users that you fabricated in your head.

TheBadgerHunter · Dec 23, 2004, 09:39 PM

He's just unhappy because no one replied to his "be happy" thread. Not one of his points are valid. One or two of them aren't even points just complaints about society.

lavar78 · Dec 23, 2004, 09:43 PM

Originally posted by Kilbey:
You other brother's can't deny.

Argh! It's "brothers"! Stop molesting apostrophes! What'd they ever do to you?

MacNStein · Dec 23, 2004, 09:49 PM

Not a single valid reason. Why am I not surprised?

Our resident piss-poor poet
is rattling his chains again.
nothing to see here.
Move along.

John Q. Smith · Dec 23, 2004, 10:18 PM

reason n� 11:

most mac users are overweight homosexuals (whereas all the fit homos buy sony products)

Link · Dec 23, 2004, 10:42 PM

Originally posted by hayesk:
Isn't it funny that not a single one of your reasons actually explains why you prefer Windows to a Macintosh?

In fact, most are about how you don't like the stereotyped Mac user culture.

So in reality, you don't like some weird culture of Mac users that you fabricated in your head.

It's more like he's afraid of becoming stereotyped by his "friends"

Kilbey · Dec 23, 2004, 11:01 PM

Originally posted by lavar78:
Argh! It's "brothers"! Stop molesting apostrophes! What'd they ever do to you?

My only defense is that I was using a Win NT terminal and it added it all by it's self maybe?

I'll edit my post so that the world will rotate for you tonight.

Kilbey · Dec 23, 2004, 11:06 PM

Originally posted by MacNStein:
Not a single valid reason. Why am I not surprised?

Our resident piss-poor poet
is rattling his chains again.
nothing to see here.
Move along.

Hey, any attention is good attention, no?

Psychonaut · Dec 23, 2004, 11:52 PM

Unless I'm making a mistake, benign is just posting someone else's blog entry - not his own. So the personal attacks aren't warranted.

DeathMan · Dec 24, 2004, 12:05 AM

Originally posted by Psychonaut:
the personal attacks aren't warranted.

Maybe not in the context of this thread, but even so...

roberto blanco · 02:07 AM

i'm pretty much done with windows.

[my main customer though has an 'all pc' set up because they think they are hot sh1t ('OMG you can't even run w3rd on teh macs' and are too lazy to copy and paste whatever i have to do in a regular text document).

they believe everything their stupid it dork tells them. he's an 'all windows' guy who doesn't know anything about macs.

...most people here use pc laptops because they have teh awxome 8 ghz pentium and stuff, and work on their boring SAP crap.

'APLLE IS TEH EXPENSE, - OMG1!111!!1!'

meh. 2005 they can all kiss my...]

/ meaningless rant

// cheers and happy holidays.

Hawkeye_a · Dec 24, 2004, 01:41 AM

Hmm.... basically what your saying is that Mac users are superficial, and buy superficial products. Yet all your reasons for not liking macs are purely superficial, and have nothing to do with quality, functionality or usability.

But just so you know, in my opinion, your methodology has no substance and seems to be purely opinionated on images and brands. Nothing wrong/right about that.... just saying it dosent make practical sence to choose the tools of your trade based on such reasoning.
At the end of the day...use whatever the hell you want for whatever reasons you want.... no one really cares....really.

Cheers.

Randman · Dec 24, 2004, 02:02 AM

That fact that that person is in advertising explains everything. It's like the short bus for professionals.

OB1 · Dec 24, 2004, 02:31 AM

and yet, here you are, posting on the internet about it. Really, is that any better than those people, you say, will be emailing you to complain about you complaining (!

)

There are no pcs here. I don't feel like I need to justify my purchases at all.

Happy Christmas!

Alezone · Dec 24, 2004, 04:36 AM

Originally posted by hugh:
http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_...ves/001134.html

bstone · Dec 24, 2004, 05:19 AM

This is like saying

"WHY I PREFER HAVING A BRAIN TUMOR WHICH MAKES ME RETARDED"

geez...

Apple Pro Underwear · Dec 24, 2004, 05:57 AM

Originally posted by Hawkeye_a:
Hmm.... basically what your saying is that Mac users are superficial, and buy superficial products. Yet all your reasons for not liking macs are purely superficial, and have nothing to do with quality, functionality or usability.

I agree. His whole argument is completely immature.

I figured out "brands" and marketing superficiality long ago. Even how sub culture can be just as annoying as the status quo. It's much better to 1. be yourself and think for yourself, and 2. choose your OS through functionality flavored objectivity.

Angus_D · Dec 24, 2004, 06:06 AM

Originally posted by Kilbey:
My only defense is that I was using a Win NT terminal and it added it all by it's self maybe?

itself*

Stop digging

Spheric Harlot · Dec 24, 2004, 06:36 AM

Originally posted by Randman:
That fact that that person is in advertising explains everything. It's like the short bus for professionals.

This Short Bus Comment brought to you by Randman�

Link · Dec 24, 2004, 06:53 AM

I never chose my OS. I use whatever the heck I feel like, and go through them quite often, liking one over another is another story

ebuddy · Dec 24, 2004, 07:10 AM

I like Dr. Watson. I like to see hundreds of windows opening upon one double-click. I like two-tone, stylish transparent red/black boxes and Pentium cazillionsHZ microprocessors. I like things to automatically be different on Wednesday than they were on Tuesday for nothing more than excitement throughout an otherwise boring week. I'm a gamer cuz I love gaming. I like to see 'shutdown' under 'start'. Someday, with hard work maybe I'll cut my way into middle-management. SO I CAN BUY A DUALLIE G5 BABY!!! *teasing of course; already have duallie G5 and Tibook, but I'm not in the movie industry.

lavar78 · Dec 24, 2004, 07:34 AM

Originally posted by Kilbey:
My only defense is that I was using a Win NT terminal and it added it all by it's self maybe?

I'll edit my post so that the world will rotate for you tonight.

You're a very kind man. I can only assume the mistake above ("it's self") was done on purpose. Kudos! And kudos again!