“A few months ago I told you how, after two decades in the PC universe, I was considering buying a Mac. The immediate trigger was a really bad experience with a new Gateway computer. But there was a broader dissatisfaction with PCs and interest in trying out Macs. Also, in the field I work in — journalism and web design — Macs are fairly dominant. So I got a Mac Mini to test the water and a nice Mac Cinema display, figuring that if I liked Macs the display would migrate with me when I got a more powerful Mac system,” Josh Marshall writes for Talking Points Memo.
“So I wanted to take a moment and report back on what my experiences have been,” Marshall writes. “Basically, I’m sold. I’ve been using a PC at home and a Mac at work for several months now. And I just prefer using the Mac. A lot. Some of it is simple ease of use, the ‘it just works factor’. It runs with few or no problems. And not having to worry about computer viruses is nice. I’m also doing a lot more working with video… When I think about it, it’s hard for me to point to any one thing that I prefer about the Mac. I’m a pretty adept PC user. And I’m usually able to fix or workaround whatever problems crop up. I think what it comes down to for me is basically three things.”
Marshall’s list:
• Quality: Quality of the physical product and its integration with the operating system itself, which also seems light years ahead of Windows. The thing’s just made really well and it shows
• Integration: It’s hard to point to any one thing that makes too big a difference. But they build on each other. And all told, they lead to a more pleasant and productive work experience. The new Macs have a suite of programs (iLife) for organizing and editing your photos, videos, music, etc. Amazingly powerful and well-designed. Just right there, ready to use, perfect. If you’re working with graphics and video and anything to do with design, it’s just not even close.
• Aesthetics and It Just Works: I like the way the Mac looks and the physical presentation on the screen is vastly nicer than on a PC. Also, things just work a whole lot easier. I plug things in and they work.
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Ron blows little boys after pulling them into his van.
“Ron blows little boys after pulling them into his van.”
Your point?
One, I’m not a millionaire, not even close.
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Two, I’m a Republican.
Three, I’m also gay.
Four, I have a few Mac’s, and am hoping to have enough money to live and still buy another one.
Five, I’m a cheerleader who happens to
Six, be majoring in Biology, French and minoring/[major(?)] in Mathematics.
Most important lesson of the day. Quit being bigots and making all these crazy stereotypes. Geez, I break most of them! I should know, I got people saying crap about cheerleaders left and right, people making claims about gay people left and right, and hellllooooo, did anyone notice that this is a Mac website?
O, and Ron, you get the point. STFU.
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Second most important lesson of the day, Get A Nac it’s for everyone.
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Third important lesson of the day: Proof Read
Mean to say “Get A Mac*” not Nac. 🙁
Ron, have you actually seen American Beauty?
If so, you see how unintentionally funny your post was.
Firstly I’m not gay no way near, a nice wet pussy for me to pound on will do nicely – thnx!
And as my name suggests I am a Mac user with 5 of them running and ready to use whenever I want.
On the subject of cheerleaders, the great Aaron Spelling (R.I.P) was once a cheerleader and yes on his passing recently his daughter Tori, okay not much to look at, inherited Aarons $1.2 Billion dollar house in LA.
So you homophobes up there Aaron was a really rich, gay guy with a family and just to top it off Tori is only one of his kids left from Aarons past marriages as Aaron also leaves a Son. As for Aaron’s political persuasion, who knows except for those who were closer to him – not me!
MDN: do yourself a favor and introduce a policy covering homophobia in that any posts that are exactly that, like Ron’s will be deleted. So Ron if you have something to say, which you have a right to, use it wisely and post something meaningful.
It is amazing but surprising, every time I read about a switch story or hear one from someone I have converted. It is always the same. After a few weeks it starts to click. They understand why people are so fanatic about Macs and they cannot understand why they didn’t do it sooner. And they almost always encourage others to ‘see the light.’
Sounds like ron has been choking on his own vintage stock of “man pudding” again. Hey, asshole, I’m as conservative as it gets and I won’t use anything but a Mac. Jackass.
I thought liberal blogger meant blogs a lot.
Hey “7up” you’re forgetting something – there are people who actually have to work for a living. If all you do is play gamez (sic) all day. Well, your life is pretty much useless anyway so, a Windows computer really does figure in your life.
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Everybody knows that clueless, ignorant Windoze users like Ron and 7up are the homos. I mean, who takes it up the ass more than Windoze users? M$ has been f*cking its users in the ass since day one, and these two homos keep coming back for more. The poundings have clearly come more frequent and gotten more and more violent lately with the constant Vista delays and inability to secure the operating system, so I can see why they’re lashing out at us Mac users. Their asses are as red as a baboon’s. 7up is essentially whoring him self out for video games. What a sad life.
There are fiscal conservatives and there are social conservatives. Anyone can be a fiscal conservative and vote Republican and still have social liberal ‘Democratic’ values. It’s not all black and white. There are shades of grey.
Everyone fails. Only Ampar got it. Entertaining, though.
1/60th of a minute “I don’t give a fuck.”
But if you did, it’d be a gay fuck, you Mac using homo you.
LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER!! —-IT MAKES YOU INTO A “Vidkun Quisling” BY DEFAULT!!
People like ‘Big Boy’ show their lack of intelligence merely by breathing.
Firstly, by bringing up Quisling, you bring up the topic of Nazi sympathizers.
Amongst those who sympathised with the aims of Nazi Germany or profited from their relationship with the Nazi regime were such notable figures as Walt Disney and Henry Ford, who were both vicious anti-Semites. Indeed, both Ford and General Motors maintained factories in Germany well into the progress of World War II.
It’s worth bearing in mind that the USA only joined the war against Nazi Germany because Hitler, for reasons that defy logic, thought it would be a smart move to declare war against the USA. Otherwise, American companies would doubtless have continued profiting from slave labour. An unpalatable truth, but a truth never the less.
Of course, no conversation about Nazi sympathisers would be complete without a reminder that the current President’s grandfather (Prescott Sheldon Bush) was – at the very least – silently complicit in helping the Thyssen family bankroll the Nazi’s military expansion during the Thirties whilst a director and shareholder of UBC which was almost specifically established to act as one of a global network of financial fronts for that family. Whilst none of this was, in itself, illegal until the USA entered the war, it is worth remembering that the Bush family’s ability to move into the oil & energy business was partially funded by the the funds – however minor – paid to Prescott Bush when UBC was dissolved in 1951.
Being a sympathiser by intent is, of course, worse than being an ‘accidental’ sympathiser; however, nobody with Prescott Bush’s intelligence could have failed to realise that he was effectively a minor player in the Nazi’s industrial machine. A defence of “there was nothing criminal in these activities at the time” is, of course, enough to get Bush off the hook in a court of law, but in a court of moral opinion I would imagine that most people would take a dim view of individuals who knowingly profited from arguably the most bestial regime in the history of the modern world.
Well, Mondale, as long as we’re persecuting people for the crimes of their fathers, or grandfathers in this case, you conveniently left out Joe Kennedy as a rabid anti-Semite and Nazi sympathizer. Hmmm, I wonder why?
MDN mw: feeling; I get the feeling Mondale left out Pappa Joe on purpose.
Oh, don’t worry I hold Joe Kennedy in just as much contempt: a man who bought his influence with money earned from what was criminal activity at the time (no matter how misguided the law) and – as you say – a Nazi sympathizer largely because of some simplistic “my enemy’s enemy is my friend” anti-British pro-IRA nonsense.
If Joe Kennedy hadn’t have been one of those most vocal in delaying the USA’s entry into the war in Europe, there is a possibility that several million lives could have been saved including much of European Jewry.
It’s worth noting that if that scenario had been achieved, maybe the modern day state of Israel wouldn’t be so inclined to exhibit an aggressive siege mentality at the drop of the hat as it wouldn’t have the collective memory of the Jewish people being ‘abandoned’ by the Allied powers and maybe the USA wouldn’t have its entire West Asia/Middle East foreign policy defined by what appears to be a prime directive that Israel must be defended and supplied whether it’s right, wrong, proportionate or whatever.
The thing about the Kennedy family however is that there appears to be an ever dwindling number of them (bizarre considering the number that Joe and Rose started of with) and the remaining ones don’t seem that interested in going into public life. However, the Bush family is another matter as there seems to be no end of born-with-a-silver-spoon, fake good ol’ boy offspring that seem to be able to convince middle America that they have their interests at heart.
Personally, I think the Constitution should have another amendment that says that only two consecutive generations of any family should be allowed to have a representative in public life and then they have to take a break and remind themselves of how real people live. But that’s never going to happen.
Looks like Microsoft won’t have to work too hard because Apple CEO Steve Jobs is reportedly sick. Just check out the firestorm of blogs and print media articles reporting on Steve’s dizzy, coughing, stumbling keynote at WWDC06 that he handed off to his other execs to finish for him when he couldn’t continue.
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