Thursday, March 5, 2009

Top 10 Reasons Why Macs Suck

I'll start at #10 and work my way up.


10. Mac users to this day are still somehow tricked into thinking that Microsoft is a monopoly, and that Apple is the messiah of all computer companies, even though every Officially Endorsed Apple product for Mac besides iTunes is for Mac only, while windows has reached across the aisle many times with products such as Microsoft Office for Mac.

9. You, the end user, are unable to upgrade your Mac (besides changing RAM and Hard Drives) because Steve Jobs thinks you’re too stupid to do it, and you are forced to buy a brand new computer just to upgrade; which leads me to my next point.

8. The entire Mac computer user experiance was built to appeal to Daft users who only know how to drag-and-drop items. Have you ever seen a Mac user try to drag-n-drop something, only to have it not work? They don’t know what to do next, it’s hilarious.

7.  Mac applications like to make the user play twister with their hands by forcing them to execute keyboard shortcuts by pressing things like  “Apple+Shift+Option+H" just to "Hide Current Application”, how ironic is it, that it’s called a shortcut.

6. When something crashes it doesn’t tell you why (so you can't possibly try to fix it yourself), and instead asks if you would like to send the error/crash report to apple since those guys are probably smarter then you anyway...  You could go to a genius bar so they can run a diagnostic tool to see if they can help you... in fact that's all you can do.  

5. Right-click mice still aren’t the standard for Macs, and they give you shitty white keyboards that are painful to type on for long periods of time.

4. The people who work at the Genius Bar are arrogant assholes who automatically assume that everyone that comes to them for help is a computer illiterate dumbass; not thinking for a moment that the only reason you are there is because of reason # 6. These guys are the worst, they hope that you don't catch on to the fact that the diagnostic tool tells them what the problem is with your mac, and that in fact, they don't know shit about computers. If the diagnostic tool runs and doesn't turn out any problems, then you are peice of shit who wasted the "geniuses" time. Then they will shew you off becuase there is obviously nothing wrong with your Mac. Don't beleive me? Too bad fanboy, becuase it happened to me. By the way, if you want real help with your mac, go here. Unfortunetly they can be expensive, but they know 100x more then those assholes at the Genius Bar do, and they are actually very nice. 

3. Referencing #8,  People will spend upwards of $2,800 for a laptop they are going to use to only surf the web, write essays, write emails, listen to music, possibly make one home video with since the excitement quickly wears off, and the only game you might play is World of Warcraftand it won't even run good. For a computer and not a laptop, people will spend $2500, (+ $900 for a new apple monitor), to do the exact same thing I mentioned a few sentences before, although to be fair... these people are morons, you can't expect much from them. (By the way, for $2,837 you can get a vastly superior PC that will last you atleast 5 or more years,  complete with water cooling, the fastest Blu-Ray combo drive on the market, a DVD/CD combo drive for good measure, the latest intel i7 Quad Core CPU processor, cutting edge graphics card, and you can individually upgrade every part of your PC yourself if you so wanted to; thus expanding the life of your PC to possibly 8 years. Your PC is officially a lean mean gaming-machine, complete with blu-ray HD playback, you know all stuff a Mac can't do. Last year's Apple computers (the ones from 3-4 months ago) are already outdated. Good Game Apple. Of course the fanboys who just bought a laptop a month before the new one's rolled out for the same price won't complain. Damn Tools.

2. Safari, the default internet browser for Mac, doesn’t really work that well for the internet, and neither does Firefox. Good game Apple.

And ranked at #1 reason why Macs are stupid is…

1. To this day, 3 Operating Systems later, a Mac user still cannot delete a selected file by simply pressing the delete or backspace key. They must instead drag and drop the file into the trash to delete it.

 

There it is Mac users. You have been officially served.

Come back tomorrow to read my Top Ten Reasons Why Macs Rock. If there is no article tomorrow named that, it means that I still haven’t fallen for Apple’s Marketing campeign.

-Don’t drink the cool aid- 


FOLLOW UP!!

But Chase! The Mac can have up to 4 nVidia Geforce GT 120's plugged into the Apple computer simulataneously, that must make it more graphically powerful then PC's becase it can have FOUR GRAPHICS CARDS AT ONCE!

My Response:
Wrong, dumbass. If you did even 5 seconds worth of research, you would find out that the nVidia GT 120 is just a renamed piece-of-crap nVidia 9500GT worth about $65 on newegg.com. Want to know what's even more hilarious? Apple charges you $150 a card, and they are probably underclocked to extend the cards life becuase Steve Jobs is incredibly paranoid about his shit not lasting longer then 10 years, which everyone know's is a joke since apple makes you buy a new Mac every two years. Let me spell it out for the Mac users reading my blog right now. Imagine you had 3 hamsters running in a wheel that generated electricity. This represents 1 nVidia GT 120 graphics card. Now imagine that multiplied by 4, now  you have 12 hamsters all doing the same thing which generates quite a lot more energy.  Now imagine you have 1 graphics card for the same price that has all 12 hamsters in it all ready for the PC. 

See the difference? If you don't, it's ok. 


Really, it's ok....

1 comment:

OLeazy said...

nice rant. You also forget that basically any piece of niche software will only work on PC, so you can only be as connected to the internet as Apple wants you to be.

One thing you missed, how much of Apple's biz is computers...you'd be surprised at the answer - and it will enlighten you as to why their support is not for hardcore users like you.