Wednesday, 16 February 2005
Billet-doux
In light of my recent experience with my Father-in-Law's computer, I decided to send Apple a belated Valentine's day letter:
Then my brother bought a G4 desktop two years ago.
We were living together at the time, and I'd jealously watch him create incredible symphonies (he's a classically trained guitarist) on slick applications while I spent hours each week defragmenting, virus scanning, and spyware-zapping. Oh, and rebooting. LOTS of rebooting.
His computer, on the other hand, never seemed to crash. Even third party software apps were rock solid. When he told me that he hadn't restarted his computer in over a month I pretended not to believe him, but I walked away with my head spinning.
I was forced to consider that the Mac OS (he was running Jaguar at the time) was not only a "real" operating system, but a superior one.
The final straw was the first time I hooked up my digital camera to his computer. iPhoto popped up and there were my pictures. And that was it. I didn't have to install the drivers, restart windows, download the newest drivers and install them, restart windows again in "Safe Mode" and uninstall the old drivers, and then re-reinstall the newest drivers.
It just worked the way it was supposed to.
I was converted. I was working for clients at the time who were PC-based, so I couldn't throw my computer out the window, but I promised myself the next computer I bought would be a Mac.
Fast forward two years.
My wife and I have quit our jobs and have decided to travel around the world a few times. We have digital cameras, MP3 players/recorders, and digital video cameras to document everything. We use iMovie and iDVD to send production-quality movies to our friends and family back home. And we do it all on a tiny, 12-inch silver box called a PowerBook.
And it just works.
Thank you, Apple. And I'm sorry for all those times I said you suck.
Posted by flow Frazao on February 16, 2005 at 08:26 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink
If you spend hours a week to keep one pc running properly perhaps you should consider a career change.
Apple doesn't suck and just points out how some people jump to conclusion without any facts; liberals we call them here. Anyway Apple makes good stuff; they just price their equipment to the point where they stay at 5 or 6% of the market. That's the way it’s been since the 1980s and contrary to what you may predict that’s the way it’s going to say. I keep hoping that they'll learn about market forces but after 20 years I think it’s a lost cause.
Posted by: walt | Mar 1, 2005 12:58:31 PM
I disagree with walt. I have a mac at home and a winblows machine at work. I spend probably about 4 hours a week fixing the windows piece of shit. When I first got it, I spent an entire day setting it up and changing its retarded default settings.
Contrastingly, I don't shut off my mac (because I've heard rumors that constant temperatures are better for the electronics) and I have had it run for months without restarting. I rarely have to "fix" anything on it, because nothing breaks. The only time it ever crashes is when I'm really fucking with it (i.e. programming).
As for your pricing theories, this link proves you wrong:
http://www.apple.com/macmini/
A mac for $499. Even the cheapest model bursts its nipples at any winblows machine. OK, so it's not expandable. But what percentage of people who use computers REALLY need to add a better video card than what comes standard? Yes, the monitor is not included, but you can use your old PC monitor just fine. The only reason Mac stuff is generally more expensive is because it's BETTER. I'm sure that Gateway and Dell both probably have an entire office building staffed with people whose job it is to find the cheapest, crappiest parts to put in their computers.
I can't wait for the day when people start realizing that winblows is a sorry sack of sheep shit. If only so that my boss will buy me an apple and cure me of my daily headache.
Posted by: snizzlewizzle | Mar 1, 2005 6:31:28 PM
Guess what Walt? You're a fucking idiot.
First of all, I was so wildly successful in my computer career that not only have I "considered" a career change, I've quit my job and gone travelling around the world. So fuck you.
Secondly, what the hell are you talking about? You said:
"Apple doesn't suck and just points out how some people jump to conclusion without any facts"
Somebody's been eating retard sandwiches all day, and it ain't me. I KNOW Apple doesn't suck, and if you could read you'd understand that. I'm not a liberal because I jump to conclusions, you dipshit, I'm a liberal because I have a brain that fucking works.
PS - thanks for handing that mistakenly unaborted fetus the facts, snizzle.
Posted by: smooveJ | Mar 8, 2005 10:54:04 PM
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