Top Ten Reasons I’m Glad I’m a Mac Switcher

Mike Wendland (of Detroit Free Press fame) has listed his “Top Ten Reasons I’m Glad I’m a Mac Switcher” on his MacMike News site:

Wendland explains, “It’s been nearly four years now since I made the switch from PCs and Windows to Apples and Macs.”

Top Ten Reasons I’m Glad I’m a Mac Switcher:
1 – No spam – There is no better spam filter than Spam Sieve. It’s a Mac-only product and it catches 98 percent of my junk mail.
2 – No worms or viruses – None. Zip. Zero. Not a single one in four years now.
3 – No adware/spyware – Same thing. These are non-issues on my Macs.
4 – No crashes – It just doesn’t happen with OS X. I had one crash in December 2002, but I was running OS 9 at the time and it was a very old program (from 1994-ish) and I was curious to see if it worked. It didn’t.
5 – Total integration – Apple’s iSync application keeps my calendar, address book, Web bookmarks and to-do list automatically and flawlessly synchronized on my desktop and laptops. And it backs it all up on my .Mac account, meaning I can access it from any computer with a Net connection.
6 – iTunes and the iPod – Need I say more? Granted, these also work with Windows. But on Macs, they work the best.
7 – Total freedom – Airport Express lets me set up a wi-fi network anywhere I want in seconds and it extends my wireless network at home as I need it.
8 – Mac software – I mentioned SpamSieve and iTunes. But then there’s other special Mac apps like the RSS-reader NetNewsWire, GarageBand, Safari and Final Cut Pro. I can not imagine computing without these apps.
9 – Compatibility – I realize this is a PC world. So I use Microsoft’s Office for the Mac. Truthfully, it’s been my experience that it works better than Office for Windows.
10 – Community – When I was all PC, I used to laugh at the Mac zealots. Now that I am one, I understand why they love their computers. I never heard a Windows user say that.

“For me, Macs have made the last four years an adventure just waiting to be clicked,” Wendland explains.

More at MacMike News here.

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74 Comments

  1. Why the hell won’t an article like THIS one get picked up and spread nigh and yonder in the mainstream shitty press? Imagine how much head-scratching and “Wow, I didn’t know that!”-type reactions this’d cause if it were reprinted in USAToday?

    F-ckin’ Mac-hating imbeciles everywhere need their eyes opened.

  2. Have you ever seen a child, on his way to school, have a car drive past and splash him, and then he just stands there and thinks if he should just go to school or go home and change and be late . . . And then I drove past and splashed him again!

  3. I don’t believe a thing you man-goo-loving Mac cultist fags say.

    My Windows PC does everything your Mac can do. It’s just a tool.

    You gay homos love man pudding so much that you make up fake lists proclaiming your love for your toy computers.

    Get a real PC, you tree hugging sausage swallowers!

    I say BULLSHIT to reasons 1-10 above because I’m not a Mac-loving fanatical fag loaded to the gills with baby batter.

    You Mac gays keep on lying and we’ll keep using our real PCs and ignoring you fags.

  4. Anybody who’s not a Mac ‘tard gay can avoid a lot of spam with a Windows PC. No worms or viruses, yeah right, I believe that – I just read about one last month, you lying throat sausage lovers.

    I have a real PC and I know how to use it to stop most adware/spyware. I don’t need any homo Mac for that.

    No crashes, yeah right.

    The rest of it is all the same typical BULLSHIT from gay homo Mac fags. I can’t be bothered to explain how a PC can do it all, too.

    STOP guzzling man pudding and packing fudge and get a real Windows PC, you gay Mac fags.

    I’ll never switch, even if I’m the last one on Earth, ’cause I’m not a gay fag who loves toys.

  5. I don’t believe a thing you man-goo-loving Mac cultist fags say.

    My Windows PC does everything your Mac can do. It’s just a tool.

    You gay homos love man pudding so much that you make up fake lists proclaiming your love for your toy computers.

    Get a real PC, you tree hugging sausage swallowers!

    I say BULLSHIT to reasons 1-10 above because I’m not a Mac-loving fanatical fag loaded to the gills with baby batter.

    You Mac gays keep on lying and we’ll keep using our real PCs and ignoring you fags.

    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

    Thank you Ron for reminding me of the #1 reason I am a Mac lover.

    If I were just a tenth as miserable a man as you appear to be through your post I’d have to kill myself. God Bless.

    xoxo

  6. Hey, “Ron,” how old are you, anyway? Your diction and tone suggest an 11-year-old who can afford only a $200 assemble-it-yourself PC your gay uncle helped you put together.

    Questions: Did it HURT when you bent over to pick up the phillips head he dropped on the floor intentionally?

    (Oh, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t say “head” around you, huh?)

  7. I refuse to believe that top ten list above. Lying Mac fags are a dime a dozen.

    I would never even touch a Mac – too gay -I never have touched a Mac and I never will!

    Someday, when your fruity little tiny California company Apple is out of business, buried by Dell and HP and hundreds of others who make REAL PCs, maybe you homos will stop bending over for man rod and stand up and walk into the REAL PC world like a heterosexual man.

    Until then, you really should install Windows on your Macs and get real familiar with it, you baby batter swallowing, nut sack licking, ramrod loving, lying gay homo fags!

    I’m outta here. This place has way too many lies and way too many QUEERS for me!

  8. Thanks, Ron, for hijacking the thread with your moronic ramblings. Makes for great reading. </sarcasm>

    Anyway, back to the real topic. I love reading this stuff from Wendland. He’s an example of what the Mac community can do when we go about correcting the mistakes of journalists with misinfo using respect and being courteous. He used to just be a Windows user who was very uninformed about Macs. Now he’s a full time Mac user and evangelist.

  9. Actually I have over 110,000 reasons why I like my Mac.

    All the 110,000 viruses on Windows that isn’t on my precious.

    And I have one more reason I like my Mac, it PISSES RON OFF!!!

    I’m a gun toting, fag bashing, rebel flag sporting red neck with a mean streak a mile wide.

    But I love my precious Mac.

    Come see my old clan outfit in my closet ron, you can try out the hood while I widen the eyeholes with a sharp knife ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />

  10. ditto, ive been a for 4 years now woo hoo! why didnt i find the mac straight after the amiga, why did i have to take the pc route?

    You went from an Amiga to a PC! Yikes! Now that must have been a huge downgrade.

  11. Ron sounds like an uneducated hick. Really, Ron must have some serious personal issues. Too bad I don’t have a DSM manual so I could look up what his potential conditions might be. For now, I think we’ll just use the old standby: TROLL.

    Didn’t his parents ever teach him not to say anything if he doesn’t have anything nice to say?

    One last thing, he makes me wonder if he’s part of some supremacist group.

    Ron is definitely not nice, indecent and should have his posts pulled.

    Enough said.

  12. “Wow. Awesome. This website really sparkles with the best of what humanity has to offer.”

    You’ll notice that most (not all, but most) of it comes from PC trolls.

    Similar stuff happens at a number of sites and forums that I check out on a regular basis. Even those that have nothing to do with Macs, or computers in general.

    Mac zealots? Oh yeah, it’s obvious there’s a few, but I have never seen any so-called Mac zealot spew anything remotely like Ron and others of his ilk do without provocation. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve been reading a forum thread somewhere and during the discussion someone posts an innocuous comment about Macs (often simply saying they use a Mac), only to have the thread hijacked and the Mac poster be vehemenently barraged with replies of misinformation, lies and even personal attacks. It is absolutely insane.

    Why all the animosity for something that’s “just a tool” ?

    Could it be because some love their tools and those that don’t are deeply troubled by it? If you don’t think it’s possible for someone to “love” tools, I suggest watching the New Yankee Workshop or Ask This Old House. You will certainly see qualified, knowledgeable experts and craftsmen proclaiming their “love” of tools. Particularly tools that make their work easier, quicker and/or more efficient, because these tools allow them them to do a better job.

    Like a Mac does. At least for Mac users, because if you don’t use a Mac…you don’t really know.

  13. Wow-

    Amazing how one post from a shock-jock type guy can dominate the rest of the topic like this. It’s like Dvorak sucking everyone onto his latest PC Mag magazine takes.

    Let’s just ignor “ron” and move on.

    As for the article, Mike’s only invalid point is iTunes and iPod on Mac is better than on Windows. I don’t see why that is, other than it runs on OS X which has most stability and a better look and feel, but that’s the OS not iTunes.

    I am also equally surprized Mike left off OS X Tiger from the list. Surely he uses expose or spotlight all day long, etc… I should think Mike belives Tiger vs. XP is a dream, and thus should be in the top 10 yes?… Perhaps it was too obvious and he simply missed it.

    ~Steven

  14. What’s the matter, Ron? Under in-house arrest for organizing KKK rallies again?

    I have a real PC and I know how to use it to stop most adware/spyware.

    I have a Mac, I do NOTHING special (just log in & use it), and get zero malware.
    Your point?

    Ron, your hate is absolutely incredible. If you don’t have jackboots you should really get some. I’d try to point out that maybe Macs are ENJOYABLE to use, but in your case some people are only happy when they’re miserable. Just keep tuning your PC & make yourself right with the world.

    And FWIW, I’m a straight Mac-using redneck. I use Apple because I need things that work without babysitting. If you have the time to do what “just works” on a Mac, then all the more power.

  15. I wouldn’t be suprised is “ron” is actually Al Gore’s psuedonym.

    However, it appears that he/she is just another frustrated Windows user for which I’m glad. I wouldn’t want such a blatant waste of “man pudding” man-handling a Mac the way he/she probably handles his own scrotum – with reckless abandon.

    ron – your “real Windows PC” probably doesn’t have viruses and spyware because you were stupid enough to shell out $70-$80 for antivirus software. I haven’t had to be so unfortunate and yet – still no viruses after 7 years.

    BTW: I’m a Conservative and a native New-Yorker. So, whenever you feel like a man/woman stop by Brooklyn and don’t bother getting a return trip ticket. The landfill by the Belt Pkwy is too big for your family to find you.

    Chris

  16. “You went from an Amiga to a PC! Yikes! Now that must have been a huge downgrade.”

    Yeah, I have to agree with that statement 110%. IMO nothing could even touch the Amiga for it’s time, and that includes Macs. Amiga 1000, 1985 – First personal computer with a TRUE preemptive multitasking OS, could display 4096 colors in HAM (hold and modify) mode, dedicated sound and graphics chips to offload the processor, a bit-blitter chip for moving large chunks of memory very quickly (helps with graphics and animation), a decent GUI, and a “Unix-like” CLI. I had a 500, 2000, and a 3000. I had a Mac Plus, but ditched it about 9 months later to get my 500? Why? I wanted the best platform available at the time and the Amiga was it. My 500 was 7.16 Mhz and I could multi-task effortlessly with only 512MB of RAM. Early versions of the OS (1.0-1.3) were not known for being stable (many “Guru” errors/system takedowns – like a BSOD). Also capable of doing a full 30FPS and amazing full color 3-D ray tracing/rendering. I still miss it 🙁 OS X Panther, and now Tiger have actually made using my computer interesting and fun again – there were many dark years in-between.

  17. Ooh, Aah, I Love My Mac’N’Trash Puter because it wipes my butt, I couldn’t do that before I had one, ha ha ha. All computers are the same with respect to the points you Crapintosh owners are trying to argue. With any computer, Any Computer, if you don’t know what you’re doing, it won’t run worth a darn and it doesn’t do what you need it too and of course you may have to deal with viruses, spam and ad ware. I’ve owned and or used a wide variety, starting with Commodore VIC then 64, 128 and an Amiga 2K 030, then Mac’s starting with the Apple to system’s running OS9, and PC’s running just every MS OS up to date including MS\IBM OS/2. Don’t get me wrong, Mac’s are not horrible computers but they have never been the best in any one area, maybe DTP back in the late 80’s. There was even a short time that Mac’s were starting to look as though they would become dominant in the Scientific, Pharmaceutical and Biotech industries. But no more, in the last seven years it’s gone the other away because Mac’s don’t have the business applications (No not Office) like PC’s or brute force processing like Silicon Graphics which both levels are necessary to get WORK done. Of course they have never been prevalent in any big business, anywhere. Whether you want to accept it or not, Mac’s are a toys sold to school children. Why do you think the latest Mac advertisements are pushing PC compatibility again, “too shay”? Market share is the only thing that makes a computer better, because that’s where the software developers are. PC’s are less expensive and have just about any software\hardware you could ever imagine, yes you do have to pay for virus protection, but as someone wrote, the PC only costs $200; so you have a lot of money left for software. The only thing that really matters is whether or not you have useful apps, Losers! By the way, iTunes runs on PC’s, but Media player is better. One more thing, have you ever heard of Outlook?

  18. It is nice to see these articles. I have become sensitive, ok a just a little, to Winders since I haven’t used one since XP first came out. Not dealing with Winders everyday makes me think I might take my Macs for granted. Yeah the good old days of swearing at PC’s at work and totally enjoying my Macs at home. I used to talk the boss into letting me work at home because my non-gay, non-homo, non-fag PC crashed three times a day. It was like an oasis. But since I lobbied for macs about five years ago, I don’t hate Winders as much and I forget the suffering.

    Oh and since the first mac came in the door here at work, there are 11 others in the building and IT hates me. You’d think they’d be happy, thats 11 less machines they have to support, oh well. Every one of these people feel like this guy above. They wonder why they waited and became big time Mac fanatics.

  19. Swordmaker: “”It’s only a tool.” That is not something most Mac users would say.”

    I am a 100% Mac owner that uses Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya and many other graphic programs. It is my full-time job.
    The Mac computer is only a tool. It could do nothing, create nothing without me.

  20. ©, another Amiga-to-Mac convert? Small world!

    My first PC was an Osbourne I – back in 1981, when a 64K CP/M system was a reasonable choice for SOHO use. I moved to a C=128D, then to an A-500, eventually to an A-3000 – and then the proverbial brown bio-matter hit the proverbial mechanical breeze-maker.

    I was <u>not</b> thrilled by my first Mac. Or my second. Perfectly fine, better than the alternatives, but … where was my Terminal??? It can’t be a Real Computer unless it lets you get your grubby fingers into the file system, type commands, and generally show off your geek-chops. Then came OS X and a great deal of comfort. For some, the comfort was added stability, others added security, and some just love the ability to run ftp from a shell window – and choose between bash and tcsh! The latter is what made me <u>GLAD</u> to be a Mac Switcher.

  21. Gotta get a “grammar checker” for those Tags – BBEdit would be nice.

    BrooklynNYC, Al Gore is a Mac man … and I’ve seen the Idiot-In-Chief with a PowerBook. Both also have iPods, but the chimp listens to “soft country” – now I do have a couple of Dolly’s tunes on mine, but they are the exception. (Does an IQ of 91 qualify you for idiot status?)

    Can we stop talking about the flamer, now? He needs help we cannot provide in this forum.

  22. all i say is fuck all you mother-fuckers. Pc’s and mac’s both suck. Get off the fucking net before it’s too late. Then go get laid instead of reading this fucking bs thread if you can. I hope you all get it up the ass.

  23. Mike Wendland wrote”

    #8 Mac software – I mentioned SpamSieve and iTunes. But then there’s other special Mac apps like the RSS-reader NetNewsWire, GarageBand, Safari and Final Cut Pro. I can not imagine computing without these apps.

    Interesting that he would list Final Cut Pro as a “critical” application for him – especially given the fact that he is a journalist, and (to my knowledge) not involved in professional movie production. I use Final Cut Express HD and find that MORE than sufficient for my needs for working on home movies. (I got it for a good price.) It’s just interesting that a Pro app would be considered critical to someone not who is not a professional in that field. To each his own – no harm intended.

    Peace.

  24. @DLM – “I was not thrilled by my first Mac. Or my second. Perfectly fine, better than the alternatives, but … where was my Terminal???”

    It’s funny….I felt exactly the same way. After a few months of using my Mac Plus, I felt frustrated because I could never get “under” the OS. That was true to the Mac design philosophy, but I was so used to be able to use some sort of CLI, that I bailed after experiencing the Amiga (R.I.P.). Color, larger monitors, and a true multitasking OS sealed the deal for me and games as well (I’m not much of a gamer anymore). Anyway, I still miss my Amiga’s – the 2000 was my favorite design………

    BTW: The first I ever encountered viruses was on the Amiga, and they were vicious! Boot sector viruses – I was facinated by them at the time because I had never heard of such a concept. I was not so facinated by the consequences of them.

  25. I wrote:
    “”It’s only a tool.” That is not something most Mac users would say.”<i>

    To which Mac owner x 5 wrote:

    <i>I am a 100% Mac owner that uses Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya and many other graphic programs. It is my full-time job. The Mac computer is only a tool. It could do nothing, create nothing without me.

    Thank you for being the exception that proves the rule… It is just that EVERY time I have seen that phrase on a Mac v. PC flame war, it has come from the PC owner.

    As you and I well know there are tools and there are tools… Some will be a joy to use, feel well balanced in your hand, and accomplish their intended purpose with efficiency and elan. Then there are tools that are intended to do the same thing that are a pain to use; unbalanced, poorly designed, made of low quality materials, and while they may accomplish the task, they leave a lot of damage to the work surface and frustration in the user.

  26. Gosh, Ron, don’t you think it a little strange how you are the only person in this entire thread who somehow equates a discussion about a computer operating system with a human being’s sexual orientation?

    I mean, it would make an equal amount of sense to rant about all the Pepsi-drinking, Mac lovers with their Pepsi-filled brains unable to see that their Pepsi-stained, toy computers don’t come anywhere close to the performance of PCs owned by proud, Coke-drinking people everywhere.

    Huh?

    The point is that the discussion is about computers, and in this particular case, why a specific person feels his decision to jump from the PC world to a Mac was the right one for him to make. Talking about anything other than points related to that topic says nothing about the author’s character, and *volumes* about your own.

    If I were a betting man, Ron, I’d say you have some real conflicts going on inside of you, probably revolving around a persistent, unconscious denial of your own same-sex attractions.

    This conflicts with some sort of value system imposed from without (probably from a religious belief), causing a situation where: (a) gayness is intolerable, and (b) you are this intolerable thing. This creates a really uncomfortable existence for the ego, and so it *transfers* the loathing of the intolerable gayness onto others. By repeatedly saying how bad gayness is, and by repeatedly attributing to others, you create a certain comfort zone for your ego.

    But it will only work for so long. In the meantime, you are spouting out hateful, negative crap that only brings you down.

    A good counselor, psychologist, or therapist could be of great help to you. He or she could show you how to safely acknowledge your own same sex attractions, and how to give yourself permission to just experience the feelings (even if you do not act on them just yet). He or she can also slowly help you to reevaluate the “if I’m gay, then I am bad” belief you are quite clearly carrying around. There are millions of people all around you who–by just being who they are–show that belief to be completely baseless.

  27. Gosh, Ron, don’t you think it a little strange how you are the only person in this entire thread who somehow equates a discussion about a computer operating system with a human being’s sexual orientation?

    I mean, it would make an equal amount of sense to rant about all the Pepsi-drinking, Mac lovers with their Pepsi-filled brains unable to see that their Pepsi-stained, toy computers don’t come anywhere close to the performance of PCs owned by proud, Coke-drinking people everywhere.

    Huh?

    The point is that the discussion is about computers, and in this particular case, why a specific person feels his decision to jump from the PC world to a Mac was the right one for him to make. Talking about anything other than points related to that topic says nothing about the author’s character, and *volumes* about your own.

    If I were a betting man, Ron, I’d say you have some real conflicts going on inside of you, probably revolving around a persistent, unconscious denial of your own same-sex attractions.

    This conflicts with some sort of value system imposed from without (probably from a religious belief), causing a situation where: (a) gayness is intolerable, and (b) you are this intolerable thing. This creates a really uncomfortable existence for the ego, and so it *transfers* the loathing of the intolerable gayness onto others. By repeatedly saying how bad gayness is, and by repeatedly attributing to others, you create a certain comfort zone for your ego.

    But it will only work for so long. In the meantime, you are spouting out hateful, negative crap that only brings you down.

    A good counselor, psychologist, or therapist could be of great help to you. He or she could show you how to safely acknowledge your own same sex attractions, and how to give yourself permission to just experience the feelings (even if you do not act on them just yet). He or she can also slowly help you to reevaluate the “if I’m gay, then I am bad” belief you are quite clearly carrying around. There are millions of people all around you who–by just being who they are–show that belief to be completely baseless.

  28. obviously you are a fucking retard if you do get a worming tracking cookie etc… using a PC. Anyone that knows a fucking thing about computers understands websites

    use mozfirefox….the most stable browser available (hit number one macfags, try to fully integrate that)

    an the second thing you understand is that buying prebuilt computers is a waste of time and money… at anytime i can upgrade my PC with whatever the cutting edge is and i can decide whether or not i need it ( you are just going to get old news in the next version of your shitty mac)

    and my system since it is fully upgradeable can now run at minimum three times faster than your mac even though i purchased the majority of my components at the same time (go ahead try upgrading your motherboard to an ASUSELITE (best motherboard) with a Quadcore (now tell me how stable your integrated piece of nothing shit is now)

    and to top it all off, the part which you will all whole hearted deny and fight, YOUR MAC GETS VIRUSES!!!! OMG!!! the whole world is coming to an end!!!! it is true your mac is just as likely to get a virus as any pc. i fucking dare you to try to hack my pc you will receive the worst mygot has to offer too bad when a mac gets it the computer crashes or when it infects your email system will wholly delete itself… which it does when you get a virus but then auto downloads a replacement.. which leads to my favorite vulnerability in macs THEY DELETE FILES TO HIDE VIRUSES, ALL I HAVE TO DO IS PUT A SHADOW CODE TO INFECT YOUR AUTOUPDATE

    TAKE THAT YOU FUCKING HIPPIE MACFAGS GET SKILLS OR DONT USE COMPUTERS

  29. you mac loving losers just completely overlook static mesh’s comment because he likes macs, then immediately stoop to ron’s level and call him a “fag” back? static mesh says

    Come see my old clan outfit in my closet ron, you can try out the hood while I widen the eyeholes with a sharp knife wink

    BUT SINCE HE PREDICATED IT WITH

    I’m a gun toting, fag bashing, rebel flag sporting red neck with a mean streak a mile wide.

    But I love my precious Mac.

    its acceptable with you fuckin losers? you losers are pathetic. all you gotta do to be accepted around here is like macs and you can be a bigot murderer?

    by the way i hate to burst your bubble but one of the main things apple is known for being good at (graphic design) is also one of the main things that bursts its no-crashing streak. try using cs3 on a new macintosh and you’ll see what i mean.

    or don’t, say you did and say that it NEVER crashes. you’re really believable you fanboi fucks

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