Yeah, Mac fanbois are fucking whinebags
Not “mac users”, nor “people who like macs better than PCs”
You know who I mean. Those fucking insipid hipster douchebags who sit in starbucks and look around to make sure everyone’s watching to see what they pull out of their stylistically distressed laptop case. Anyone who dares say “macs are just better” and yet pretends they’re a thinking person.
Well apparently there’s a microsoft ad out there featuring a (delicious little redheaded) woman with $1000 to spend on a laptop. After a couple “simulated handheld cam” trips between stores and a very well placed “I’m not cool enough for mac” comment, she picks up a dell or hp or something.
The mac club is all fumy and stompy about this.
Even the Fortune piece on it is BRIMMING OVER with “yeah but the pc she picks is crap.” and “uhm… she’s an actress, not a real person!”
It’s so poutingly self referential it’s beyond humor.
Look, I’ve got lots of machines. I’ve got 3 macs (a mini, a dual G4 and a mactop that was high-end just shy of 2 years ago.) They’re nice. I like the different “look and feel.” Though the actual ‘fingerfeel’ is something I haven’t gotten used to yet.
I also use a couple flavors of linux. Add to that XP, Vista and, yes, windows 98.
They’re all fine. (Except linux, which is still an unprofessional piece of unpolished crap and will be for at least a few more years, no matter how slick the insides are supposed to be. Hat’s off to Linus for wrangling those monkeys to get it done though.)
At my last job I had to deal with the microsoft equivalent of the mac fanfags (hint: They’re filed in the back, in with the “.net programmers”.)
Why do you people need to make a religion out of it?
Someone wiser than I said that one of the big problems with political discussion nowadays is that people are increasingly identifying with ideologies. So any discussion that departs from someone’s chosen ideology is seen as a personal attack. Quite something really. Smart comment. No idea who it was.
Well it’s the same thing. Maybe marketing people have just done a stellar job. Maybe parents should be a bit more present in their kids’ lives so they learn something about value systems and identity. I dunno. It’s all that and a whole lot else no doubt.
Get the hell over yourselves. These are products created by people to be appealing to the eye, as unappealing to the wallet as they can get away with and perform a bunch of tasks. If you really REALLY identify that tightly with your brand choice in computer (well… operating system because let’s face it, the guts are now almost precisely the same) then you’re just an asshole.
I suppose I understand though so I could almost forgive you for it.
So long as you’re not a fucking pepsi drinker.
March 30th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Laughing my ass off and nodding my head at the same time.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Excellent! Then my work here is done for the day.
I was marginally hoping it was a least a LITTLE funny and completely pissed off and venomous. ;-)
April 1st, 2009 at 4:16 pm
my favorite part was the pepsi drinker :)
April 5th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Shit. I have one homemade computer with a big-ass monitor, and Windows XP. If that shit dies, I am screwed.
April 8th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Of the fanboys i knew at university (and most computer engineers, programmers, and scientists seemed to be fanboys), the .net ones always struck me as the least crazed and yet most technically devoted their platform—more of a deep professional strictness than some kind of sexual orientation-like lifestyle decision.
But as a mac user myself, I follow the online discourse amongst mac users fairly regularly, and I am embarrassed every time by the absurdity to be found there. I’m ashamed every time the nonsense spills out to the larger interblag and makes all mac users look like arrogant morons.
April 8th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
See that’s different. People who love their focus and are disciplined and rigorous about it are fine…. frequently tiresome (like me re: C++ frankly) but ok.
But the .net fanboys are the same people who 10 years ago would say “Why would you use anything but VB?” Then you give them a list of it’s technical shortfalls and they respond with “Well why would you want to do THAT?”