The old Mac vs. PC pineapple

Why is it that com­put­er users don’t even con­sid­er the oppo­si­tion as a seri­ous option? And yes this goes both ways… but my case in point it Alan.
Let me be clear hear peo­ple! I am NOT say­ing that Macs are bet­ter, NOR that PCs are bet­ter. What I AM say­ing is why not con­sid­er the option.
Grant­ed I’ve iso­lat­ed Alan with no bet­ter rea­son that I felt like it. It is high­ly like­ly that in Alan’s case a PC is the bet­ter option (although I raise an eye­brow at the ‘do I need to par­ti­tion the hard dri­ve’ bit which is prac­ti­cal­ly shout­ing ‘give me some­thing sim­ple, styl­ish and easy to use’.)
If you actu­al­ly want to know the right com­put­er is the one that will do the task you have in mind, quick­ly, eas­i­ly and with the min­i­mum of fuss. If that task is to allow you to do your work at home then it is most often best to go with what­ev­er they use at work, etc.
And no, I will not stop rant­i­ng, this is a weblog after all, that’s what its for.

2 thoughts on “The old Mac vs. PC pineapple”

  1. I’m not say­ing it’ll nev­er hap­pen, just that it might not hap­pen soon. How­ev­er, give me a screen­shot, and we’ll see what I can do.

  2. Macs are not the oppo­si­tion. There is no oppo­si­tion. Resis­tance is futile. (I’m not kid­ding here.)
    Macs are like, I dun­no, a dic­ta­tor­ship or some­thing. UNIX is like social­ism and Win­dows is cap­i­tal­ism. All of them suck, but we’re under no delu­sions that there is seri­ous oppo­si­tion to the top mon­key.
    Giv­en that very few peo­ple use com­put­ers, I’m guess­ing they’ll all be swept away. In fact, if we’re still using Windows/Mac/UNIX in twen­ty years, then I’m outa here now. (This is a stronger ver­sion of my think­ing on cap­i­tal­ism, et al.)

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