“Twenty years after logging on for the first time, I’m logging off – forever. No, I’m not retiring but I am finally through with that soul-stomping repository of bad karma known as my PC. And after chucking the machine down the dumpster,” Charles Cooper writes for CNET News.
“Speaking personally, I’ve had only good luck with the latest Mac incarnation, the G5. No wonder the company’s stock is soaring to new highs. Hand it to Steve Jobs for making Apple relevant again. Only a few years ago, few within the ranks of the digerati would have made that bet,” Cooper writes. “So it’s goodbye protected mode. Shalom Ctrl-Alt-Delete. Auf weidersehen application registry. Meet me at autoxec.bat’s silver anniversary party.”
Charles Cooper is the executive editor of commentary at CNET News.com.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Add another one to the list. Welcome home, Mr. Cooper!
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Yup, for sure…. the switch is starting big time. I personally know of 15 people already switched and it’s the same with every mac user.
MicroSoft – Sell
Apple – Buy
Easy as that for the next year or two.
It’s happening. It’s happening! WhewwwwwwWWWWWwwwwww
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HOLY FSCKING SHIT! CNET!!! HOLY FSCKING SHIT!!!
Maybe I should just dump every ounce of money I have into this company right now.
Yessssss. I told you you’d like it, Charles. Yessss. Just like I told you last night. You remember — about the humping? Come onnnn, I keed. This is real news. I mean, the last time we saw a switcher this big she was married to Lou Diamond Phillips! But seriously, how long do you think it’ll be before this Cooper guy gets the pink slip? And I’m not talking about my special doggie appendage, either. This is too much. I say if anyone fires him at CreepNET then they must be a great boss . . .
FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!!!!!
CNET???
are you sure someone hasn’t hijacked CNET’s website?
Can it be? Can it be? Mass Switching in 2005?
I guess thigns have really hit the fan men, everybody is leaving sooner or later! lol
magic word; poor as in poor, poor microslob! when shall you release longtooth!
Wow! This is big.
Cooper wrote many slanted, negative articles about the Mac; bringing up myths and nonsense; while touting all the best things about the Windows OS. I even once wrote CNET that I would no longer regularly get my general technology news there because of the garbage Cooper wrote about the Mac.
Now, maybe Cooper is a superficial “journalist” so having him on the Mac side may not be that helpful. In other words, if he starts writing about Windows myths, etc. But having one less “important” person spouting garbage about the Mac is definitely good.
Wow!
The G5 just pwned CNET
Troll Comment on CNET’s site:
So how do you like that GUI throw back to the days of a single application running at a time? Do you find the single-menu-bar-at-the-top-of-the-screen environment annoying yet? How about that single button mouse? Have to take your hand off the mouse now to get a context sensitive menu, if there even is one, doncha. Fewer keyboard shortcuts. Less software (both shareware and commercial). Fewer hardware vendors. Fewer places for service and support.
Switching to Linux I can understand. Switching to a version of BSD Unix with the lame Mac GUI running on top of it I’ll never understand.
One responder:
Have you even used a mac?
“GUI Throwback to the days of a single application running at a time”
What does that even mean? Windows is the OS that likes to have one app monopolizing the whole screen.
“single button mouse”
More regurgitated nonsense. I’ve never used Apple’s mice, because I like to have many buttons. Support for multi-button mice is built-in, without having to install any drivers. No one is stuck with a single button.
“context sensitive menu, if there even is one”
Since you obviously don’t know about macs, why are you even commenting? Support for contextual menus predates OS X.
“less software, fewer hardware vendors, fewer places for service and support”
More rugurgitated nonsense. Most people need one program for each task. Does having fewer hardware vendors have any real effect on the computing experience? Oh, and if you really use a lot of places for service and support, I think that means you need a new computer…
In the words of Chris Farley…
HOOOOOOOLLLLLLYYY SHIIIIIIIINNNNTOOOO
Somebody at CNET likes an Apple product?!
If I have to listen to James Kim whisper sweet nothings to a Rio one more time I’m gonna throw myself in front of oncoming traffic.
Welcome to Bizarro World.
Bad-Bye Windows?
Ladies and gentlemen, I feel the tide is turning on the Windows world… Time to ride the waves of change on surf board from Cupertino…
Z.
Wow, they really slag each other on that CNET site don’t they.
The comments are terrible. What a bunch of 12 year olds!!
Nice to come home to MDN, where the comments aren’t (often) personal attacks.
Triumph: “This is real news. I mean, the last time we saw a switcher this big she was married to Lou Diamond Phillips!”
Priceless.
Wow, they really slag each other on that CNET site don’t they.
The comments are terrible. What a bunch of 12 year olds!!
Nice to come home to MDN, where the comments aren’t (often) personal attacks.
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Pfffft typical left-wing cafe-laté tree-hugging thing to say…
(JOKE!!)
It is really starting to happen. I think we may see market share AT LEAST double in 2005. If that happens the stock is really gonna soar.
That’s absolutely FANTASTIC! Way to go!
Thanks Mike
(mutters to self: “Butthead”)
Welcome, Señor Cooper.
http://www.wickedlysmart.com/skyler/SkylerSwticherQT2.mov
Hello Everyone,
I have been monitoring your chat for about three weeks. (Currantly Windows user) I find most of you Interesting. I will get to the point and tell you, After being a Windows user for 11 years now. I will be switching to MAC as well. But not because I have a problem with windows. Infact I have no trouble with my machine. The problem is, It is very Labor intensive to keep it that way. and I’m boared with that.
Plus your machines are so sexy and I can’t wait for Tiger cause thats when I come to your side.
If I had a nickel for everybody I know with a dead/dying/limping/infected Windows PC I would have enough to buy a Dual 2.5 gHz G5 with a couple of GBs of RAM and a nice Apple Cinema Display to boot. I really think that many people are so tired of the problems that they are willing to look past the FUD they know by heart, like a mantra, and are willing to (finally) consider a Mac. The tipping point has either arrived , or is very close.
Never shall I want, never shall I need…
Proceed to smoke weed. Agreed.
Yeah, that’s what Mr. Smith said.
CT
P.S. Parents just don’t understand.
Clothing is NOT optional!
It’s a good slant, from where I stand.
CT :/