“Yes, you can accept Apple’s logic that ‘it all just works’ straight out of the packaging, but there are better reasons for moving to a Mac than a factor that’s just as true of modern PCs these days,” Tony Smith writes for The Register.
Smith writes, “Now there’s an x86-based PC sitting under the hood of every modern Mac, the old battle lines are blurring. Time to reconsider the once expensive, always stylish, now Unix-based Mac platform? We say yes.”
Ten reasons why you should buy a Mac:
1. Not-so-heavy metal
2. Core Comedy Duo
3. Firewire and Target Disk Mode
4. Smart-phone smarts
5. Intel Inside
6. Bundled apps good, nagware bad
7. Sleeping and waking
8. Bill Gates ate my GUI
9. Still need Windows? No problemo
10. Smug-tastic: It’s impossible to feel smug after buying a PC. Can’t be done. Won’t ever happen. Never going to be a factor.
Full article, with explanations, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dirty Pierre le Punk” for the heads up.]
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Windows expert dumps Windows, switches to Apple’s Mac OS X, finds software plentiful – March 12, 2007
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Windows Vista rips-off Mac OS X at great hardware cost (and Apple gains in the end) – June 13, 2006
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Let me get this right: The Register actually something GOOD to say? And about the Mac? And about Apple?
The end of the world must be near…
A British publication recommending the Mac. What’s up with that?
Ten reasons why you should buy a Mac:
1. Not-so-heavy metal
2. Core Comedy Duo
3. Firewire and Target Disk Mode
4. Smart-phone smarts
5. Intel Inside
6. Bundled apps good, nagware bad
7. Sleeping and waking
8. Bill Gates ate my GUI
9. Still need Windows? No problemo
10. Smug-tastic: It’s impossible to feel smug after buying a PC. Can’t be done. Won’t ever happen. Never going to be a factor.
What the Hell?!
have they been drinking again?
Aaack! AAAAAAAACK! CHAIR! CHAAAAAIIIRR!
OMG…I just saw a lion lay down with a sheep….and its been raining here for 39 days and forty nights…..
That smug comment always gets to me. I don’t feel smug. I’m satisfied. I’m content. I’m unconcerned. I’m untroubled. Un-victimized. Un-unaware. But, not smug.
They’re idiots as usual.
@R,
Just because you feel the need to teel us how satisfied, content, unconcerned, untroubled, unvictimized, and unaware you are proves that you are, in fact, smug.
I just checked in with Hell, they are frozen over again.
You know what guys? The sky IS deinitely falling.
The tipping point is nigh…
..and there’ll be no stopping the avalanche when it gets under way.
And boy are there going to be a lot of pundits with
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R, a perfect sentence to counter all this “smug” crap:
“Not smug; satisfied.”
WAIT UNTIL THEY POST THEIR TOMORROW’S ARTICLE:
TEN REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD NOT BUY A MAC. Then MDN will be all over them.
Cheers.
The Reg are clueless assholes … have not visited their POS site for 3 years now.
IT Guy: Are you screaming because your PC server room is so loud? Makes sense.
Yeah the smug thing is BS. I’ve never felt “smug” and I don’t know anyone who feels that way about owning a Mac. In forums, I think most Mac users are considerate, and rarely “smug”.
What’s wrong with smug? Smug is good, as long as I can be the smug one.
“I’ve never felt ‘smug’. . . “
I agree. Besides, I feel more spongy and just a little damp. But definitely not smug.
Stupid article. I defy anyone to unpack a brand new PC and be up-and-running in five minutes or less. And if you’re transferring data from an old computer, I defy anyone to automatically transfer everything with a few clicks of the mouse and a firewire cable. The author’s assertion that modern PC’s are ready to go right out of the box is ridiculous.
I gotta admit, when a friend asks for help with his/her virus riddled PC, I feel smug.
Speaking of “smug” the writers at the Register are the definition of it. Just read their banner motto.
I confess to a bit of smugness when I’m on my MacBook at the library and someone starts cussing at their Windows PC for freezing up…other than that I’m simply happy.
SMUG = Smug Macintosh User Group
Heh, that smugness comment was dead on. I’m proud to be a smug Mac user, because there’s a REAL reason to be smug. Call that something like honest smugness if you want.
My call to the world: get Macs, let’s be smug together!
@is the sky falling
Yes, well its not the BBC.
Someone goofed and forwarded me an internal email from the BBC about a complaint I had made. The subject was “geek complainant”.
Nice to know the BBC takes complaints so seriously. My further complaint to the BBC follows:
I have recently complained on several occasions about the BBC’s fawning treatment of Microsoft, the deliberate or careless inaccuracy in articles about Apple; and the appalling infomercial recently broadcast to help Microsoft hype Vista.
To the BBC’s credit I have now received a response to each of these complaints. To the BBC’s discredit, every single response simply denied any bias. It goes without saying that there was no undertaking to improve the quality of your journalism, redress the anti-Apple bias, or review your commercial agreement with Microsoft.
I received an email today which seems to have been sent in error by someone in the BBC. It is a response, to someone else, about one of my complaints.
Note the subject line. “geek complainant – anti Microsoft”
Aunty, dear, your slip is showing…
From: Visakha Karunaratne
Sent: 12 March 2007 16:49
To: Joey Haasbroek
Cc: Sally Trim
Subject: ID 13895397 – geek complainant – anti Microsoft
{Date:} 20/02/2007
{Feedback Type:} Complaint
{Email:} steve68526@hotmail.com
{Phone:}
{Postcode:}
{Country:} Australasia
{About:} General
If you want to complain to the BBC, go here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/make_complaint_step1.shtml
Note the subject line. “geek complainant – anti Microsoft”
Even the BBC thinks you’re a dickwad. Are you going to accuse me of being the BBC complaints department as well?
@Sure
You really are a difficult case aren’t you. The BBC are SUPPOSED to take all their complaints seriously. So they should not be labelling a complaint in this way, whatever the private opinions of the person handling this matter. As I am sure the BBC will concede when they reply.
Would you be the BBC complaints department. From what we have seen of the BBC’s attitude of late, you would certainly fit in.
Once again you have chosen to ignore the real issue and focus on the personal. All from the security of an anonymous position. Its quite cowardly you know. Amusing of course, but hardly shining a light for Microsoft. Not that you would expect to get many rave reviews on here – even if you did manage to stick to the topic and avoid silly taunts…
MW=fear
Post using your real email address. I dare you…
“The BBC are SUPPOSED to take all their complaints seriously. “
My guess is that you’ve struggled all your life to be taken seriously.
There’s no rule that says they must take whining paranoid criticism from rabid Mac fans without laughing a bit at that person.
Like any organization the BBC are allowed to laugh internally at the stupid complaints.
@Sure
Dream on….
The BBC have their own rules of conduct when it comes to dealing with the public – and I am sure they have breached several of them.
As for laughing – the loudest laughs are here for those reading your silly posts and childish taunts.
… which remind me of a monty python line: Stop or I will fart in your general direction.
Except that monty python are funny…
“The BBC have their own rules of conduct when it comes to dealing with the public – and I am sure they have breached several of them.”
Perhaps you had better have them spanked and sent to bed without any dinner.
“As for laughing – the loudest laughs are here for those reading your silly posts and childish taunts.”
I don’t think so. The loudest laughs are coming from the BBC. And people reading your posts. And your relatives. And people who know you. And people who’ve barely met you. And people who casually pass you in the street. One thing you can be sure of is that the world is not laughing WITH you.
“which remind me of a monty python line: Stop or I will fart in your general direction.”
You can’t even get a Monty Python quote right. Sad.
But you’re so full of shit that I doubt it’ll be a fart coming out.
@Sure
My my, we are a bitter individual aren’t we. So much venom inside you. Do you get it all out on here, or does everyone around you get a dose of this?
Is that why you come on this site? Does it make yuo feel better to taunt a few Apple users?
Actually, it doesn’t help you know. Instead, you just spend more time thinking of unpleasant things to say, and being annoyed when your taunts have no effect. Its the law of Karma – all your unhappiness is merely reflected back on you.
Its true you know. Im not saying that just to annoy you. We are the only ones paying attention here – everyone else has moved on. What need have they to have their day filled with your unpleasantness? If it was upsetting me I would have moved on also.
So what are you going to do today to cheer yourself up? It will have to be something that brings pleasure to others – try it. It works you know. Just as directing unpleasantness at others just fills your own life with unpleasantness, so the opposite is true.
“Just as directing unpleasantness at others just fills your own life with unpleasantness, so the opposite is true.”
If anyone would know, you would. Perhaps you should go complain to the BBC that they’re not saying something nice about your favorite brand of PC. Forgot, you already spent time doing that.
@Sure
More unpleasantness from you? Is there no limit to how much nastiness you have inside you?
I dont think this is doing you any good at all – and its no longer amusing, only sad.
Have a think about why you come here and do this. Find someone you trust to talk to about this. I really think you need some help matey. Really…
“Its the law of Karma – all your unhappiness is merely reflected back on you.”
Given the negativity you seem to be attracting, from the BBC, from Internet posters and others in your life, It’s you who should be wondering about your Karma and reassessing your life.