Comments on: Charlie Brooker bashes Macs again

By: Woppet

Woppet — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:30:35 +0000

I have a very powerful Windows desktop computer and my laptop is an also quite powerful MacBook Pro. I initially bought the macbook because they tend not to slow down and since the hardware is first party it works together well. it’s hard to find a windows laptop the same size that will run as smoothly.

After using the mac for a while i came to prefer the operating system.

I still have a huge dislike for Steve Jobs though, and all the Apple employees who talk slowly when describing a mac, using their hands to speak like it’s a miracle of nature. And all the Apple fanboys who claim that Windows is a bad OS can go to hell.

The way i see it, if you are using the OS that you prefer. Then what does it matter what OS others are using?

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:22:32 +0000

Almost as good as this:

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:17:17 +0000

By the way, I thought Mr Brooker’s article was quite hilarious. Thank you for drawing it my attention and putting a smile on my face.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:01:02 +0000

To be fair, a lot of the Mac devotion is also about the users, not the hardware or software. It’s an extension of school life and the derision of the class ‘square’, the ‘geek’ and loser. Bill Gates, after all, is the arch-geek — he has the nerdy voice, boring dress-sense and glasses. Who in their right mind would want to be associated with him? This was coming across for years, long before the ‘I’m a Mac’ adverts articulated it.

Personally I think modern Macs are very attractive, although unaffordable on my salary. My father has converted to Macdom over the past few years and continually sings its praises, while bemoaning Windows tech. However as one who has spent most of his life derided as the geek and generic loser, I simply feel compelled to rage against fanboy cool on principle.

By: astranger

astranger — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:38:04 +0000

it’s as if vista/MS is Christianity and Mac is Islam, the attitude displayed by those sticking to vista (even with its problems) and the MS evangelists are like Xtian evangelists.

By: Osman

Osman — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:58:05 +0000

I first started using Macs as a media student, and I’m not on to my second Macbook…and after 15 odd years of using Microsoft Operating Systems, now struggle to use them (mainly because I have not touched Windows in the last 4 years). As a Mac owner (not fanboy) I do find it annoying that I have to avoid telling people I use one when it pops up in conversation; most of the time I’m faced with alot of abuse…it may just be goading, but it gets old pretty fast (just as I imagine it does to have a mac fanboy scream its praises). I normally get this abuse because I’m a part of the Warcraft community, and gamers in general are understandably Microsoft fans- even if they hate Vista.

I like my Macbook because it suit’s my way of going online, which these days includes much of peoples social coordination (facebook, twitter, etc) and hobbies (youtube, games, etc). But I wouldn’t recommended the Mac to say a hardcore gamer, or someone who wants a cheap word processor. Still the message board wars between the fanboys are very stale.

By: iMuslim

iMuslim — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:17:43 +0000

*sorry, I meant netbook, not notebook…

By: iMuslim

iMuslim — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:16:19 +0000

Most Mac users are perfectly normal, ordinary people who wanted a system that worked and was secure and were willing and able to pay more for it.

Apart from the ‘perfectly normal’ bit, I think that describes me quite well. :)

Although, I did tell someone today not to bother with a Mac. She wants something small, light, cheap, just for using Microsoft Office and for surfing the net - and something her students wouldn’t be tempted to steal! So I suggested a cheapo notebook, the kind given away with broadband deals…

Some Mac fans I know would disown me for that.