Game On
Okay, I know I am part of a very, very, VERY limited group of users who prefer the MacIntosh platform. But I am a “CREATIVE,” one of those mysterious and elusive people who prefers to dress in black, sip espressos and memorize the Pantone color for every object in existence. (Not to be confused with UNIX people, who just hole up in their server rooms playing online games and mumbling incomprehensible jibberish about Perl, Ruby, and other crap that I have no comprehension of).
I do not consider myself “elite” because of my platform; I choose it for the EASE of USE in my PROFESSION. I like to drag & drop. I am a VISUAL person. I do not want to navigate a million menus to get something done, and I certainly don’t want to try to design from a COMMAND LINE.
I happen to prefer the simplicity of a MacIntosh, because it sums up my goals in life; to be simple, elegant, and productive. The interfaces aren’t cluttered, the instructions are simple, and as long as you follow the rules, it will crank on FOREVER (unless you’re running Creative Suite, because anything Adobe is a monster resource hog, but I will forgive simply because a software engineering feat like Photoshop is pure genius, and obviously the programmers had greater things on their plate like curves, layers, and press algorithms to worry about instead of something trivial like system resources…)
Here lately, I seem to be defending my poor little Mac devices more often than I used to. I can’t help but wonder why that is; they function without fail unless there’s some user error involved… can you Windows people say the same thing? (And R, you just stay out of it because 99% of the Windows population doesn’t even have a clue what Unix/Linux is!)
Why all the Mac hating? Seriously? I feel no love….
February 27th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Macs are the retarded siblings of the Unix world. The Mac has nothing to offer me. And like I said, it’s hard to find good software for it.
I’m not sure if Mac users truly understand that.
~Jef
February 27th, 2008 at 9:33 am
What is considered “good software?” I find absolutely everything I need for it…
February 27th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
lol, your simple
February 27th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
“You’re”
You brat.
February 27th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
like i said before, if i had to choose between the two, i would go with mac. i do have a couple of windows boxes also though. she has a point though, if you’re at my house, you will find windows, mac, linux, and vmware. haha i’m such a geek.
February 27th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
and for the record, you can most everyday software of “value” can be found for mac also.
February 28th, 2008 at 5:36 am
BTW, we are not mac hating, we are thrashing on the hubris, and cult-like attitude of the mac culture. Honestly, the mac users tend to get bent out of shape at the drop, please refer to the article above
February 28th, 2008 at 6:45 am
I am a convert! I work for a large Financial Corp and deal with PCs all day, every day. I use to ignore the few MAC users we had and laugh. That is till one day I realized why I could afford to ignore the MAC users. They never needed me. They just didn’t seem to have problems. So all the laughing I had done while I ran my butt off was really on me. Call me idiot!
So now with the exception on one PC at home, all my home machines are…. (DRUM ROLL) yep you guessed it! They are MAC now. Fewer problems from the family now.
February 28th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Okay, let me ask one question that should solve the whole mystery.
Which one is better for gaming?
February 28th, 2008 at 8:42 am
K,
Stick to your guns for what you do macs rock. BTW I have a new lens to share … 135 f2 with defocus control. Give me a ring.
Chris
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
YEAH, STICK TO YOUR GUNS! Also remember, I saw you SLAP YOUR MAC to get a program to run for
Alex! YOUR BUSTED!!! (and yes, she did slap her Mac and it worked!)ahhhhhhhhh technology!