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Originally Posted by JustDaveXxx
I do think that people do take this Mac thing way too serious. I like and use Mac products, but I really do think that Mac people can be a bit nuts. You can really see it 1st hand at the Mac store.
Mac people can be best described as a 10 year over zealous 12 stepper going to AA meetings 3 times a week and telling everyone who has one or two drinks a year that they too are alcoholics and need to come to AA to control their addictions.  |
The irony of my post is, I have thick black framed glasses and I go to Starbucks.
My Mac experiences have been this:
I started out on a mac. Used to do print work, used Pagemaker and Photoshop a lot. I outgrew that mac, got a bigger one. It did everything I needed it to do.
Then I got into video editing and I upgraded to a big ass powermac and installed final cut pro on it. It crashed over, and over, and over, and over again. It was a nightmare. After about 4 months of non-stop crashing, a friend suggested trying a PC. I laughed at the idea because I liked macs, and at that time I thought the powermac was the only thing that could get the job done for me. But it only crashed so I broke down and bought a beefy PC.
I spent about a week overwhelmed and trying to wrap my head around it. My macs were simple, the PC was complex. But.... it got the job done when the mac couldn't. So my love for PCs began.
Years later, and many PCs later, my friend shows me his sweet macbook pro. He could edit and render video on his laptop with ease. I was like WTF, I want one! So I got one. Yea, it was sexy, sleek, simple, and expensive, but for whatever reason I just couldn't get into it again. I found it was taking me much longer to do things on the mac when I could have done 5 things already on a PC, so I put XP on it through Bootcamp and tried it that way. To my surprise, the mac ran XP better than my PC ever did. For a while.
It them starting having issues with XP and once again I was spending more time fixing things than I was working, so I stopped using it.
In the end I found I'm more productive on a PC than on a mac, for whatever reason, so on a PC I work, taking cheap jabs at Mac fan boys whenever I can, while contemplating buying an iPhone.
I do like the look and feel of macs, they are damn sexy. However, I unfortunately can't say I love macs because, "they just work."