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| February | 05 |
| 2007 |
At last, someone has put in words what I have long felt: I hate Macs:
I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
UPDATE: Lord above. When one links to a jolly piece and endorses it, a reasonable assumption might be that one shares its jolly sentiments. I don't hate Macs in the sense that I hate antisemites or racists. I don't actually care that much.
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How childish. It may not have occurred to the bed-wetter who 'hates Macs' that, without them, PCs would probably not have the DTP capabilities they now have, the software for which was honed on Macs. If you hate Macs - and many of us can use both Macs and PCs - then don't use them, but don't bore the rest of us with your temper tantrums.
The actual article is a lot more satirical than Stephen's straight-faced excerpt makes out - the fact that it's by the Guardian's Charlie Brooker should tell you a fair amount in advance. As should the final sentence of the final paragraph:
This week: Charlie watched some episodes of Larry Sanders (on his PC). He played the customised Fawlty Towers map for Counterstrike (on his PC). He listened to the Windows startup jingle every 10 minutes as his PC repeatedly rebooted itself.
In fact, it's primarily a reaction to those appallingly smug Mitchell & Webb ads - which I loathe too, and I'm a hardcore Mac loyalist.