I started out as a Mac user in about 1985 in a world which will be totally unfamiliar to almost all readers of OSNews. You wrote out your stuff by longhand, and a secretary typed it on a word processor. If you were lucky and able to manage it, you could dictate it. But you did not dictate into a dictating machine, because these were big heavy and expensive. You dictated it directly to someone who could 'take shorthand'. If you had a PC, it ran DOS. You looked for your files, and moved them around, started applications, one at a time, from the command line, and the command line was not pretty, it was green on black.
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I agree.
And no I am not a Mac groupie! I have not owned or used a Mac since the early nineties.
After crowning on and on for 5 pages, the author on the last page paragraphs says he has a moral, yes moral, obligation not to buy any another Mac due to the culture of some Mac users. (And his belief that Apple fosters this culture.)
Bottom line, you buy any computer and OS to accomplish tasks. If it does what you want and at a price you can accept, you buy it and use it. Nothing else really matters.
I get sick of people whining about the price difference. People don't complain with the same fevour when car made by GM is more expensive than a very similar car made by Chysler. Or that Sony DVD player is more expensive than a DVD player made by Apex, even though they share common components. Or how about tires where noname tires which are made by the brand name companies just relabeled are sold at difference price. Seems the same elist culture you question about Mac users exists in computer users in general.
I think in the progress of moving to a disposable electronic industry, the quest for cheap has actually hurt us in many ways. (A topic itself)
These opinion articles are no different than the cutlture of Mac users you question. Instead of talking about how the Mac worked for you, you and others are too worried about the guy down the street and what he has. OMG, he paid 20% less and his CPU runs 20% faster. Whoa is me. My spreadsheet calulates a microsecond slower!!
I would hate to live my life aways looking beside me to compare things to others. Does it do what you want/need and can you accept the price? If yes buy it and be happy, if not, don't buy it. To try to influence people on any other factors is just stupid.
Member since:2006-01-23
It's a rant or, more nicely, an opinion, but it's not an editorial really.
If a person buys and uses something or does the opposite because of someone else's idealism, there is something missing.
I'm not a fanboy of any certain product but I use a lot of different items and have brand loyalty. Still, the world changes--change with it.
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2006-05-10
This entire editorial serves to justify a punch line, rather than the editorial arriving at any meaningful conclusion.