Mac Zealot Translator-o-matic
curtosy of Slashdot
"MacOS X is everything Linux wants to be."
"Despite the fact that Linux is just code and can't WANT to be anything, I truly believe that it'd love to be a single-vendor, single-platform, sluggish half-proprietary OS with dwindling market share. Linux would love to throw away its impressively growing corporate takeup for that."
"Apple hardware is for real computer lovers."
"It's no hassle to use a plethora of keyboard combos to make up for the patronising one-button mouse. Despite the fact that my hands have FIVE fingers, and multiple-buttons make Web browsing so much more pleasant, I prefer my computer to be treat me like a special-needs child."
"Aqua makes me so much more productive!"
"My non-techie friends drool over the transparency and scaling effects, even though UI research has shown that they add practically nothing to getting real work done. It feels like KDE 2 on a Pentium 200, and I can't change to a light and fast WM, but those drop-shadows must make me work so quickly!"
"OSX shows that Apple is committed to open source."
"OpenDarwin.org and its community of about 27 is surely not just a token gesture by Apple. Pretty much nobody uses pure Darwin, and all the crucial components of the system are closed and require me to spend money just to get major OS updates, but they're really helping the community somehow."
"You get what you pay for with Apple hardware."
"My iBook was made by in Taiwan by AlphaTop and has design and build quality flaws (needing foam sheets jammed in to stop the common problem of the keyboard scratching the screen). But it's silvery and cost far more than an x86 laptop of better spec, so it must be much higher quality!"
"...blah blah MHz myth blah..."
"Although there's truth in PPC being more elegant than x86, it's crushing that the top-of-the-range 1.5 GHz chip is slaughtered by the equivalent 3 GHz Pentium 4. However, Steve Jobs showed some vague Photoshop filter benchmarks at the last MacWorld, so being a leprotard, I'm convinced."
Hey now...
Sluggish and dwindling marketshare? I dunno, lots of tech geeks have been picking up on Apple lately. Even Lucky Green and Len Sassaman own macs.
As for the one-button mouse, yes it sucks. But as your roommate, you might care to notice that my mouse has three buttons (one being a scroll-wheel).
As for the interface, give expose a try. Feel free.
As for the open source shite, the kernel and underlying OS are completely open, you can read the source code. How much of your operating system (windows 2000) can you read the source code to? Answer: None.
For the 'book, dunno. I haven't had any exploding batteries yet; nothing serious has gone wrong in fact. Hard to say if PCs are worse, as I haven't owned an x86 laptop in a long time.
No comment on the mhz myths. Haven't used much of x86 lately to tell...
Posted by: Reid at November 15, 2003 02:00 AMI should have said somewhere in there that I don't necessairily agree with everything said. I just found it amusing when I read it.
Posted by: Henry at November 15, 2003 02:13 AM