Bites. Stinks. Pure garbage. Junk. Pick a euphemism. I count the works of Apple nothing but skubalon (google: Philippians 3:8 + skubalon).<\/p>\n
Before Mac-Geekdom retaliates with sworn allegiance to Jobs and hire a PC programmer to launch a DOS (denial of service, MCF) attack against my UNIX server, note the apple marks on my hand: I am a Mac user. Both in home at by trade (graphic designer). I am also a PC User. And a Linux user. Rest your head Mac-Geekdom: I brought asprin.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been using a mac a long time; maybe before you. I cheered it on when it and the Amiga butted heads, vying for control in the graphic design workplace. I was blown away by the power of the IIsi and knew things were gonna get crazy when I heard about the Quadra. I stood proud as the Powermac unveiled its awesome 500 megabyte (gasp!) hard drive and when the Clone Wars started I knew Apple would only get better.<\/p>\n
But they didn\u2019t. Oh Apple, how far you\u2019ve fallen. Here\u2019s 10 reasons why Apple is Skubalon.<\/p>\n
10. Programs.<\/strong> Apples latest games are Quake 4, Sims 2 and World of Warcraft. Those are awesome games that came out about a year and a half ago. Here\u2019s a fact: any program that I can buy for my Mac I can buy for my PC. Here\u2019s another fact, every program that I can get for my PC I may not be able to get for my Mac\u2014not this year anyway. And by then, the (inevitable) new OS will render them inoperable.<\/p>\n 9. The Auto-Quit Feature.<\/strong> Apple is so sleek you don\u2019t even have to quit out for the program to shut off. Heck, you don\u2019t even need an error message. Three cheers. Honestly, I would love to see this as an ad right after Apples\u2019 virus joke. For the record, there are Mac Viruses but hackers don\u2019t bother making a ton of them because there is no satisfaction in attacking 2% of the computer marketplace with a virus to make a machine unstable if the machines come unstable out of the box.<\/p>\n 8. Widgets.<\/strong> Tiger is like working in a cartoon. You think about a Sandwich on a Thursday and suddenly hundreds of little color circles and boxes jump up and start munching away at your CPU speed.<\/p>\n 7. Restarting.<\/strong> Fact: every computer crashes. Millions of mathematical computations running on a single (or duo) central processing unit and backed up by a couple of memory chips, you\u2019re going to have hiccups. My PC crashes about once a month. I live with it\u2014the machine is (after all) on all the time. My Mac, on the other hand, has a million crashes every day. Apps crash, finder crashes, some weird Chinese\/Arabic name thing crashes leaving me with a button that says \u201cSi\u201d and at the end of the day I have to shut it down so I can give it a fresh start the next day.<\/p>\n 6. Ridiculously Overpriced.<\/strong> Same Os, new features and decimal number (ie: 10.3.9 to 10.4.0) shell out a hundred books. Need a new machine? Drop $1600. Look, it was fine back in the day when each Mac came with high end stuff like a SCSI drive that spun ridiculously faster than the standard IDE drives\u2014but today these Macs ship with the same junk that is in standard pc. Pop it open and you have tons of parts from Toshiba, Motorola and Intel. Basically you\u2019re paying $1600 for a Dell in a nice case. And don\u2019t wave the Mac Mini in front of me as if it\u2019s the answer to the Payer\u2019s Prayers. You burp and it overheats. Speaking of which\u2014<\/p>\n 5. Overheating.<\/strong> The machine\u2019s fan starts to scream if you have a post it note sitting next to it. Mac overclocked their CPU\u2019s without supplying proper cooling. If you\u2019re eyes glazed over let me interpret what I said: I witnessed the loss of 17 iMacs in one week because they were too hot. Apple\u2019s response? \u201cSorry, that\u2019s (i)Life.\u201d<\/p>\n 4. The Community.<\/strong> The fanatical ad-worshipping community of self-important wannabe-computer-users who can\u2019t figure out how to plug in a toaster who think they are designing a website when they use photo-book and think they have a life because they organize it all on iCal yet weep whenever the thing has a huge Darwin crash. The poor yet willing-to-shell-out-$1600-on-a-piece-of-history sycophants who congregate in dark blogs or forums praising Apple\u2019s latest macbooks while ignoring that they can\u2019t touch the thing because it\u2019s hot to the touch. Oh wait, there\u2019s an unnamed firmware update<\/a> for that. Ignore the clicking noise.<\/p>\n