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	BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: PC vs. Mac Commercials Thursday, March 22, 2007 PC vs. Mac Commercials I've not paid much attention to those pc vs. mac commercials with the nerd and the cool guy, but I have seen a few blog posts about them, mostly from defensive pc users. I have no links, but one pointed out, I thought somewhat convincingly, that the schlubby pc guy was actually the loveable, slightly bumbling hero, while the mac guy was clearly a slacker asshole with too much attitude. I haven't read that deeply into the meta-narrative, but I did think this English rant about them from a pro-pc (or at least anti-mac) POV was amusing. A snip. PCs have charm; Macs ooze pretension. When I sit down to use a Mac, the first thing I think is, "I hate Macs", and then I think, "Why has this rubbish aspirational ornament only got one mouse button?" Losing that second mouse button feels like losing a limb. If the ads were really honest, Webb would be standing there with one arm, struggling to open a packet of peanuts while Mitchell effortlessly tore his apart with both hands. But then, if the ads were really honest, Webb would be dressed in unbelievably po-faced avant-garde clothing with a gigantic glowing apple on his back. And instead of conducting a proper conversation, he would be repeatedly congratulating himself for looking so cool, and banging on about how he was going to use his new laptop to write a novel, without ever getting round to doing it, like a mediocre idiot. I'm a PC user, but not a fan, and overall I'm pretty agnostic on the whole thing. I think the pc vs. mac commercials are cute and somewhat amusing, but they don't make me want a mac or want to get rid of my PC. I use a PC since I've had one forever, and I know how Windows works, and since I'm not an Internet noob I have antivirus and firewalls and spyware removers. The common pro-mac complaints, that pcs are harder to use and virus-prone and such may be true for non-expert users, but are irrelevant in my case. Besides, I've seen Malaya using a mac for years, and she's had a lot more crashes and technical problems than I have, though lots of those are in trying to get windows-written software to work properly with her mac OS. Which is too bad, and something you can blame pcs for... but it doesn't change the fact that I never run into software that won't work on my machine. And given that I'm currently in the Mythos alpha, and eagerly awaiting the HGL alpha, and those are both pc-only, a mac wouldn't be real useful for me now. Not that I could afford one anyway, which is obviously another key issue for many users. Labels: computers Posted by: Flux # 8:45 PM Comments: The new intel macs should have considerably fewer problems with getting windows software to work on them. As for Mythos and HGL, the latest version of Paralells goes so far as to run windows applications as if they were native on the mac (ie, they fit down in the docker and look just like a regular mac program), even with 100% video acceleration support. So they should be playable on a mac, too. Although the standard macs all leave a little to be desired in the graphics department - you have to go for the uber-expensive Mac Pros to get medium-high end graphics on anything. Finally, macs are really good for people who just want to use computers to do photo/music/movie things because they have excellent software that comes free with the computer. But if you're looking at doing business or gaming things, then macs are probably overpriced/underpowered for what you're looking for. #: 11:50 PM posted by Anonymous Post a Comment << Home Archives May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2012

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