Re: loquacious and kdavies
- Well, my cents are worth just that, 2 cents. Having said that, I think loq is suggesting that to truly "buck the system", you can't accomplish it by being, dressing, acting commercial.
He's got a point, some people have convinced themselves that they're "so unique and different" by buying, wearing, acting and thinking different" - just like everyone else.
Although, your point was caustic, but I understand, I've been there, I'm known to vent too.(I know cuteness makes me rage sometimes) but, kdavies had a point too, he/she said "buck the system a little" and "we're casual".
This is true for a lot of Mac users, which is probably why they switched to Mac in the first place. So sometimes they want to "stick it" to people who don't think quite like they do. -As any person sometimes does.
Windows really does suck. I've shown friends how to create the registered trademark symbol in any text app on a Mac - it's Apple key, and R, that's it.
This is the equivalent on a Win machine: U00AE, and I think you need to hold down the alt or something too.
So people who are "anti-mac", and I know plenty, just haven't had the experiences to be qualified enought to comment in the first place.
Buying a Mac, although contributing to capitalism in every sense, is still a choice I make, because I really hate windows that much.
I won't wear a Mac t-shirt, but damn I hate when people say, "yeah, well look at all the free software I got for my windows machine that I got for 600 bucks" - Yeah, and it all sucks.
Sometimes seasoned win users have spent more time trying to figure out problems and workarounds with windows, that they somehow seem more capable or intelligent. I WAS that guy, and gave up all that BS for a Mac long ago. I'll never buy another win machine.
Most of us are media users. And the
Mac-ericanna (made that up eh)surrounding Apple appeals to a lot of people. And, guess what... that sells Apples. Apple sells media and entertainment far better than Windows ever could.
I haven't ever seen anything on the Windows side that really pushed me to run back to a Win machine. My first computer ran win. I thought it was the bomb, -until I got a Mac. And I did feel like "what were those windows people thinking when they built this heap of shit:?
There is a sense of generic identity among PC users when it comes to how they see their machines, and what their machines do for them.
It's pathetic that the camp mentality still exists, but Mac people LOVE their Macs because it makes their lives easier. And they want to impart that "casual" notion to others. It's not always a fashion statement.
Loc, you think wearing leather, and uberhacking, and listening to Kompressor really makes those people all that different? Anti-establishment?
I know some of those people, those were the people, who 10 years ago thought Linux would rule the world. Who thought I was stupid for saying "ahh no, Apple will popularize Unix". I'm not even a techie, and I figured it out back then.
Damn I love my G5!
Re: loquacious and kdavies
- Well, my cents are worth just that, 2 cents. Having said that, I think loq is suggesting that to truly "buck the system", you can't accomplish it by being, dressing, acting commercial.
He's got a point, some people have convinced themselves that they're "so unique and different" by buying, wearing, acting and thinking different" - just like everyone else.
Although, your point was caustic, but I understand, I've been there, I'm known to vent too.(I know cuteness makes me rage sometimes) but, kdavies had a point too, he/she said "buck the system a little" and "we're casual".
This is true for a lot of Mac users, which is probably why they switched to Mac in the first place. So sometimes they want to "stick it" to people who don't think quite like they do. -As any person sometimes does.
Windows really does suck. I've shown friends how to create the registered trademark symbol in any text app on a Mac - it's Apple key, and R, that's it.
This is the equivalent on a Win machine: U00AE, and I think you need to hold down the alt or something too.
So people who are "anti-mac", and I know plenty, just haven't had the experiences to be qualified enought to comment in the first place.
Buying a Mac, although contributing to capitalism in every sense, is still a choice I make, because I really hate windows that much.
I won't wear a Mac t-shirt, but damn I hate when people say, "yeah, well look at all the free software I got for my windows machine that I got for 600 bucks" - Yeah, and it all sucks.
Sometimes seasoned win users have spent more time trying to figure out problems and workarounds with windows, that they somehow seem more capable or intelligent. I WAS that guy, and gave up all that BS for a Mac long ago. I'll never buy another win machine.
Most of us are media users. And the
Mac-ericanna (made that up eh)surrounding Apple appeals to a lot of people. And, guess what... that sells Apples. Apple sells media and entertainment far better than Windows ever could.
I haven't ever seen anything on the Windows side that really pushed me to run back to a Win machine. My first computer ran win. I thought it was the bomb, -until I got a Mac. And I did feel like "what were those windows people thinking when they built this heap of shit:?
There is a sense of generic identity among PC users when it comes to how they see their machines, and what their machines do for them.
It's pathetic that the camp mentality still exists, but Mac people LOVE their Macs because it makes their lives easier. And they want to impart that "casual" notion to others. It's not always a fashion statement.
Loc, you think wearing leather, and uberhacking, and listening to Kompressor really makes those people all that different? Anti-establishment?
I know some of those people, those were the people, who 10 years ago thought Linux would rule the world. Who thought I was stupid for saying "ahh no, Apple will popularize Unix". I'm not even a techie, and I figured it out back then.
Damn I love my G5!