“Given that all my [Windows] computers zip along like dead ballerinas, I should be annoyed that I have been burdened with such a flawed operating system. Mr Gates has, after all, achieved the near impossible feat of extracting cash from me. There is much software that I am evaluating, free of charge, according to the 21-day trial period specified next to the “I agree” check box. But Mr Gates’s Windows operating system came with the computer. The computer works fine: it’s just the operating system that doesn’t,” writes Red Symons for The Age.
“Apple computers are not susceptible to viruses, worms or yeasts. They are favoured by those in graphic design and photography. In short, your Mac is a very nice ladies computer. The good guy in the movie always has a Mac,” Symons writes. “And yet the fact that the Gatesian PC system is cobbled together and prone to disaster is exactly what makes it so attractive. The Mac is a computer that seemingly needs no maintenance. It doesn’t break down and this is it’s failing.”
“Time was, a man would retreat to his workshop, to his fret saw, to his vice, and spend many hours building spice-racks, weather vanes and kennels. The work produced no useful result, but kept the man occupied, away from domestic responsibilities and demonstrated to a man’s sons that he was a master of the universe of plywood. Fretwork was superseded by carburettor and shock absorber craft. A car was something you could fiddle with in order to make it work ‘better.’ You opened the bonnet to make pointless adjustments to the engine. A PC is a man’s computer. It never works properly and requires constant maintenance,” Symons concludes.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Would that we’d all be as intelligent as the fairer sex when it comes to choosing a computer. For those that like to putter around unproductively, male or female, a Windows PC cannot be equalled. For those that just want to get things done with their computers, get a Mac. It’s really as simple as that.
To everyone who is taking this article seriously, this was written as satire! Satire! Of course it’s ridiculous to classify computer users into sexist categories. The writer knows that. He is actually taking potshots at those self-professed PC “power users” who pride themselves in using a real “tool”, who belittle Mac users for using “toys” by making light of their incomprehensible resistance to the idea that the Mac is, indeed, a good computer.
To everyone who is taking this article seriously, this was written as satire! Satire! Of course it’s ridiculous to classify computer users into sexist categories. The writer knows that. He is actually taking potshots at those self-professed PC “power users” who pride themselves in using a real “tool”, who belittle Mac users for using “toys” by making light of their incomprehensible resistance to the idea that the Mac is, indeed, a good computer.
I have a suggestion for the tinker guy out there.
Get a Mac, pour in it a 6-pack: itfrom then on the Mac will behave and crash repeatedly for no apparent reproduceable reasons as PC. Hey, you could even think it is infected by a virus.
PCs couldn’t match the combo: A Mac and a 6-pack. NOW you really have to tinker to make it work.
“The computer works fine: it’s just the operating system that doesn’t”
Too frelling funny!!!!!
hey joe
so you’re calling every creative visionary out there who happens to use a mac and has a penis a fag?
get a life and get out of your homophobic (pc-using) world.
It’s a vague, sort of relevant point, but it’s very badly thought out and executed. When you read the full article, you can sort of see what he’s getting at, but he could have worded it better.
This shouldn’t have got past the editor.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The idea of a computer with gender is hardly new. When the first iBook was released some American author called it a “girlie” laptop. That article reflected badly on the author’s own sexual insecurities and not a small number of Mac users had a thing or two to say about it. This Age article is tongue-in-cheek but the idea is the same.
If using Windows makes these people feel like “one of the boys” then I am all the more glad that I use a Mac.
I would argue that there is more to tinker with in OS X with its command line than there is in windows. Instead of trying to get the basics to work and refixing the same problems you get to tinker with new and exciting things instead. You only have to tinker when you want to not the hours before your paper is due.
LOL !
This “guy” had obviously never seen my Macs.
beige G3 MiniTower-G4/500/768/80gb/Zip/CDROM/CD-RW/Radeon7k/Fw&Usb;, Case Window, Green Neon, Etched Glass window,2 exrafans,Usbhub Flush mounted Above Zip in face.(pics can be seen on casemod.com)
TiBook 400 Overclocked to 500/1gb/40gb/MCEsuperdrive
paint stripped, case brushed(swirl pattern) External Custom Airport Antenna (recently Sold, It can be seen somewhere in Ohio Now)
Who says a Mac isnt a man’s Computer
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Boulder CO.