TechPointer

I bet few of you have seen those ads that Apple has put up in order to persuade users that a Mac is the way to go. And all those ads Apple thinks are funny. I don’t see it. I have a really loose sense of humor. Trust me. I watch “Married with Children”, “America’s Funniest” and “Friends” and have a laugh every single time, even if I have seen the same episode a thousand times. You get how bad my sense of humor is.

But I don’t see whatever is fun in those ads. Now, you have the right to disagree with me. Not that I like people disagreeing with me, but you have the right.

You can listen to people call Microsoft the “evil monopoly-driven overlord” or whatever, but Apple is the one throwing dirt on its opponents just to make their products look good. And they don’t just refer to Windows (there is a whole list regarding Vista, I know), but they’re talking about PCs. I wonder why Linux zealots don’t gather against Apple. Oh, I know. Because Apple’s good. Meh.

1. A Mac just works.
   While a PC doesn’t? I mean, god! You get Windows and even Linux pre-installed, you push the button and it doesn’t work? PCs do work. If they don’t work, the problem is clearly between the desk’s chair and the keyboard. Seriously though, if we’re talking about Windows XP, most products do work straightaway, as long as you have the driver CD with you. I haven’t had a driver conflict between two devices my whole life. On a Mac, obviously, you can’t get hardware conflicts, since there isn’t much of a selection anyway, so you can’t mess them up. And don’t get me started on Linux. Obviously, if you’re using Linux, if the damn thing doesn’t work, you know how to make it work. Or else you wouldn’t be using Linux.

Don’t be looking for number 2. Just reading number 1 turned my guts upside down so I won’t bother for the rest. Read those points for yourselves, and if you find that there’s something missing from your PC, then get a Mac. I can already make cool stuff with freeware programs, and most of the “cool stuff” listed I wouldn’t even bother to do for any reason, being able to run Windows XP on a Mac is cool but just an oxymoron as to why you’d need XP or Vista on a Mac that runs that oh-so-handy Mac OS X with iLife and iEverything-that’s-cool-because-it-has-i-on-the-start bundled, I haven’t been hit from a single virus and that’s without an antivirus because I don’t bother opening attachments from people I don’t know and I keep my computer updated for god’s sake, Core 2 Duo’s will be used on Macs by the Windows-geek in the advertisement that wants to use Photoshop since even Mac users can’t name 10 games that were released for their OS and were actually worthwhile, Vista had all the drivers I needed either pre-installed or via the first time I did a Windows Update, I don’t get what cool screens have anything to do with it, Video Chats is all over free Windows applications already, “More Fun With Photos” I won’t even discuss, nor while I discuss any of the…

• Hollywood-style movies
• One-click websites
• Amazing podcasts
• Rock star tunemaking (absolutely most effing ridiculous thing I’ve read in a gazillion years)
• Awesome out of the box (my PC is fitted in one of the coolest Thermaltake towers, pwn3d!)

You get my point, don’t you?

And yes, it seems like an annoying, endless rant. But I had to get it out of my system, the bad way. Mac people, come on, flame me, tell me why your Macs are so much better. And as far as the characters in the ads go, let me just tell you. A PC user is the average person. The Mac population would have its ass kicked by just one hundredth of the PC population. And that’s the one hundredth of girls with nervous anorexia, okay? The only Mac users I’ve come across, and I’ve known quite a lot of people in my short people, was someone working in an advertising agency who would only be using Photoshop on it (had got his kids a brand new PC so that they could enjoy games), and the most geeky, annoying person I’ve met in my whole life.

I don’t need to brag about my PC. It speaks for itself. Nor do I have to throw dirt on Macs in order to make myself feel better.

Oh come on. Wake up and smell the coffee. You could do with what Macs are good at, and that’s far from it. If you’re going to advertise your stuff, do it right. I haven’t used a Mac, and I can’t imagine myself doing so anytime soon. I certainly love the new Microsoft Office (2007), I use Visual Studio .NET regularly and am someone who has spent over 2000 euros over the past few years to keep my computer hardware up-to-date so that I can play games the way I want.

Give me one reason, one proper reason, that I should buy a Mac. Because those advertisements surely haven’t done it for me.

P.S. Any of you saw the Microsoft Office 2007 ads? That’s proper advertising.
P.S.2 “Get a Mac” …right… Get a Life!
P.S.3 If you want to find out the truth behind all this, here’s the place to go.