Standard Apple fanboy’s response to Windows dickhead’s question
January 10, 2008As I was packing up my iBook after a presentation yesterday, a colleague sidled over and ask me the question. “Why a Mac?”
I smiled and geared up for the answer. “It’s just so easy!” I replied all smug and grinning from ear to ear. His reply threw me off and stopped the big lecture, that I was then formulating in my head, dead in its tracks.
“Thats what all Mac users say. Its so cliche,” he said with a smile.
That got me thinking. Is that all we have as argument against a Windows-centric universe? Below is a list of tired and overused explanations that any Apple fanboy can recite in his dreams. Well some Apple fanboys…
1. Its so easy
2. There are no/few viruses/spyware
3. Even my 80-year old grandma can use it
4. Its so predde even when it crashes
5. Steve Jobs is God. So he knows best (usually said while prostrating on the floor)
6. Bill Gates is evil. How can you pay the Devil? (usually said while making the sign of the cross)
7. Windows is soooo primitive
8. Have you seen the mess of cables and wires behind your windows PC lately?
9. The “Get-A-Mac” ads are true. Believe or die!
10. The Mac guy in the ads is way cooler looking
For me, mac is a nice machine to use, but not a productive machine for my daily life. Maybe because I am very used to Windows already.
Virus? If you know how to use a computer, you should know how to install a antivirus software. There are many free antivirus software out there.
Hang? My macbook has hang on me quite a few times, while I can’t remember when is the last time my Windows XP hanged.
Price? I am get a much more powerful windows based PC with the amount money I spent on a simple imac. When I wanna upgrade later, I can still reuse the monitor that I paid for my windows, while mac is all in one and all gone in one.
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i switched 6 months ago after 10 years of windows. i take your point about antivirus and how a tech savvy person should be able to protect himself or herself against any virus. i don’t remember any major disasters with windows as far as viruses are concerned to be honest.
with the mac its less one headache and the system is so much more elegant. i am a sucker for these kind of things. thats just me.