“I state confidently that the Mac operating system is the easiest, the most reliable and overall the best OS on the planet,” Andy Ihnatko writes for The Chicago Sun-Times.
“When I get flaming e-mails stating otherwise, I shake my head sympathetically and note that this is what years of using Windows does to your soul. Unless the correspondent is a Linux user, in which case I grumblingly concede the reliability point but stand firm on everything else,” Ihnatko writes. “This latest edition is a tremendous leap forward. It’s The Who playing live at Leeds, where Windows is your kid’s middle-school class playing ‘Jingle Bells’ on the recorder.”
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Jingle all the way lol
I like the analogy, but i always thought Mac OS X was the Hendrix at Woodstock, while windows was the roadie with diarrhea, simultaniously puking his guts up behind the port-a-loo.
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well its definately something to mull over.
Any wonder Mr. Dell wants to put it in his boxes.
Speaking of Mr. Dell.
I have an Iraqi Kurdish friend who says that the word pronounced ‘Dell’ in Kurdish means ‘bitch’.
‘Life is a dell’
Sweet. How big is the Sun-Times readership?
Always nice to see gratuitous, postive press in a mainstream rag. Wish Apple could get more copy like this in Australian.
>well its definately something to mull over. ?
Yes, definAtely.
change the ‘A’ for an ‘I’ and you’ll feel better.
> I have an Iraqi Kurdish friend who says that the word pronounced ‘Dell’ in Kurdish means ‘bitch’.
Funny, in English Dell means “substandard piece of crap.”
Compared to some others, it’s the best. But it’s still far from perfect. What does that say of the others?
doesnt bother me actually ron
Not surprising.
I have a had a slowdown with Safari 2.0.2 – bit too much of the beachball- so thought I’d share this as it solved it and put it back to its blazing fast, super-snappy self by doing this:
– switched off ALL form fills (will turn on when needed only)
– cleared 2,000+ cookies
– made ~user/library/safari/icons directory ‘Read Only’
– cleared cache
The results were just fantastic. Absolutely no beachball, even opening 12 mega-sites in tabs in a go.
Well, Carlos, you’re clearly the model of proper punctuation, grammar and capitalization.
I’m with you, ron. What is with people’s inability to spell that word? It’s infinately annoying.
“When I get flaming e-mails stating otherwise, I shake my head sympathetically and note that this is what years of using Windows does to your soul.”
The Stockholm Syndrome on a global scale. The really sad part is that most people have come to accept difficulty, vulnerability and unreliability in computing as the norm. It’s too painful for them to believe there are better ways.
But don’t worry, Windows Fista will solve all of your problems.
The Sun-Times is the #2 newspaper in Chicago behind the Tribune.
Chicago Tribune
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Phone: 312-222-3348
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Headquarters: Chicago
Owner: Tribune Company
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Website: chicagotribune.com
Chicago Sun-Times
Editor: jbarron@suntimes.com
Phone: 312-321-3000
Fax: 773-229-2500
Headquarters: Chicago
Owner: Hollinger International
Total Circulation: 410,000*
Circulation Rank: #15 out of 1,413*
Website: suntimes.com
Meet the new OS boss, same as the old boss.
“Yes, definAtely.
change the ‘A’ for an ‘I’ and you’ll feel better.”
Thanks ron,
Your contribution to National Pedant Day is much appreciated. What would we ever have done without you?
I thought it was “defiantly” something to mull over. (I kid.)
When someone feels compelled to upgrade to the latest Windows bull, is this the horn effect?
Moo.
Whoa, wait a sec – people are beginning to realize it’s ok to report the truth. MS had a grip of fear on the masses much like the Bush administration. The tide is turning…
Hey G… really smooth hijack attempt. There may be some who want to hear your pathetic political whinings, but I’ll bet MOST do not. Why not take your ten-year old brain and tiny squirtgun elsewhere, Yahooligans maybe, where you can start all the fights you want.
Ampar
You’re right on. A while back I had a discussion with a friend who supported about 100 Windows users (hes a Mac user). He said that they were so conditioned to crashes, freezes, virus and rebooting that they thought it was normal operating procedure. They had become so calloused to these problems that there was just no way to describe the Mac user experience.
To them, putting up with Windows was ‘normal’ for using a computer.
Oh why not. It’s a slow news day. ahead.
Hello, my name is G Spank.
I’m a close-minded, partisan liberal moron! I have a poster of Al Franken on my wall! (At his current age, not from his much-cooler Saturday Night Live days.)
And here’s the thing: I have no life! That’s why I try and turn every conversation toward the subject of my perception of George Bush’s idiocy. Hey, no matter that some of our countries greatest leaders have been poor public speakers, or that many of the policies they implemented during their presidency’s were not popular at the time. Naaaaaaaah. Screw that. I’m all for the partisan-style bashing!
Oops, mom’s home. Gotta go!
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/pressroom2/
I remember when Andy used to write for “Mac User” magazine. Affy…that was a good one, best laugh I’ve had in a while. Jimbo, point well taken!
I do wish that Apple would advertise Mac OS and their computers like Dell and Gateway advertise (on TV) though.
We’d see a really big jump in market share. Maybe someday….
It’d be kinda nice to see the Prodigy singing “Smack my Dell up”
Mary Mapes . . . HAH!
What a frickin’ lying sack of liberal shit. And yes, I know that’s redundant.
Mary Mapes. More like, MARY FAKES!!!!!
No appropriate analogies allowed? What happened to free speech? Oh, that’s right, most Bush supporters think free speech is only appropriate if it fits their idealogy.
I made an anology. A very fitting one. It’s not my fault if you can’t make the connection.