Dinner with a smug Apple Mac user
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I just returned from a semi-important business meeting with an associate of mine.
Andy is one of those technology enthusiasts who just loves everything about Apple. He owns an iPhone, iPod, has one of those iMac desktop computers and gets all his music from iTunes. He also carries around a Macbook Air (shouldn’t it be an iRa?) in a brown paper envelope - like you see in the commercials. Hell, if Apple started making condoms no doubt he’d be one of the first to give it to his girlfriend good wearing an iTiny.
As per usual, we spent part of the evening discussing various technology trends and the conversation unfortunately drifted towards a brief discussion on operating systems.
I made the classic mistake of noting I’d just given up on my experiment trying to use Ubuntu for my business needs, and returned to Windows XP and Vista.Anyone who has ever been seated around a dinner table with an Apple Mac user probably knows the kind of invitation I just made.
Andy proceeds to reel off around 100+ reasons why Windows is horrible, it’s insecure, it’s slow, it crashes all the time, it’s expensive, too many Vista editions, bad hardware support, virus writers love it, etc. Then when he was finally done, he went through about a dozen of the best things about using a Mac. (I can’t list any of them, I had tuned out long ago) He didn’t seem to mention the number one benefit of buying an Apple Mac computer: it significantly lightens the load on your wallet; it’s actually known to burn about twice the paper calories when compared to buying a humble PC.
On the journey home, I tried to reach a definitive conclusion about which group of fanatical computer users I like listening to least - when it comes to sharing tech wisdom. I think I’m just going to have to go with the Apple enthusiasts. Ubuntu users are no less smug and condescending when it comes to promoting their choices in technology - but at least they are getting their stuff for free. It certainly hasn’t cost them anything extra to secretly dual boot back to their copy of Windows Vista Ultimate when their friends aren’t looking.
3 Comments
Brandon Leon
June 7th, 2008
at 3:15pm
I agree with you entirely, I am a mac user but I;m not a “Fanboy”
I will admit that I do not like windows, but I do respect it, I’m not going to sit here and try and convert the entire world to use Mac’s just because, I do,
My Primary computers are Linux and my Mac, I have a Windows laptop just because Its a tablet PC and I cant find a Linux driver for the tablet functionality.
When it comes right down to it use what works for you.
Laraine
June 12th, 2008
at 12:27pm
A Mac doesn’t cost a lot more than a PC. By the time you’ve configured the PC to be as much like its nearest standard Mac as possible you’ve spent about the same amount of money. My friends persistently refuse to buy anything but cheap rubbish and then wonder why they keep getting software and hardware problems. I might be wrong, but I’m sure Windows would work a lot better for them if they weren’t so cheapskate.
Aquaadverse
June 21st, 2008
at 11:01am
Your price example is totally bogus if I flip your challenge around. Apple has a large gap in it’s product line between the mini and iMac. That’s on purpose because it would effect the bottom line and the faithful is fine with the “You don’t want one of those white trash junk machines”. I could very easily configure an $800 machine that kicks the crap out of a min and works great for the large majority of users and is significantly less than an iMac.
If Apple decides it wants to enter the business IT market it will offer a model with that pricing and Macheads will praise Jobs genius.