[Revolting cat!]

[A Strict Constructionist]

Is there something about Rush L. that I’ve missed?

[Ace's Dad]

MAC or PC? Give me a UNIX box hard-wired to the super compututer of your choice. Ha!

[Revolting cat!]

There is a third category that this graphic somehow misses: the humourless fans of either computer architecture. The Mac=gay meme is so old and so ridiculous from the getgo, that it's become a joke in and of itself. Some other FReeper observed a few days ago that these fanatical loyalties to this or that architecture must attract people who had never used more than one architecture. He, this observer, had used several, so have I, and if I'm loyal to any architecture it would be to one that no longer exists or exists somewhere on the margins. If then you are offended by the Mac=gay jokes, it is your and only your problem. Cheers.

[paudio]

LOL... I cannot imagine what Mac users think about the comparison:)

[Lx]

I’m not a fan of Macs (hated using them in college with those toy tiny b/w screens; I think they were the first Macs with an HD, luckily I had a copy 2 PC board) but this Mac design is pretty kick ass. You have to have failed at wire management to have your Dell end up looking like that though. What do you do when the monitor dies and don’t say it can’t happen, my left LCD display is showing a lot of noise on the screen after it gets warm and if I switch connections to the video card or swap the cable, the problem is still there and it’s not a generic POS but a Viewsonic, wait, maybe I’ll amend my remarks, Viewsonics don’t seem to be so great these days.

The downside to the Mac is, how do I change the video card, where’s the network cable or is it wireless and no matter how many times people tell me you can get a better mouse for your Mac, why does it ship with such a crappy one? Although they might have improved this since I last had one and it had a funky semi clear round thing with only one button. Is it possible for the end user to install a new hard drive and more memory? I can’t imagine it not but who knows, maybe you need to go to their geniuses. That monitor/CPU stand doesn’t look too adjustable either.

And my big beef with Macs, I know their user base isn’t composed of idiots but it seems like Apple thinks they are. I’ve got an Iphone (it was free, I ‘d never buy a product from a company with Algore on the board) and while it is very sleek, you can’t change the battery although I’ve seen kits that void your warranty but my problem is it tries to anticipate what you want to do and that drives me crazy.

[House Atreides]

All right, now I get the gay allusion. I must be extremely non self-aware to have not seen my obvious gayness. Not only do I have an iMac but I also have an iPad3 (which I’m sometimes tempted to caress). And of course my current smart phone of choice is an iPhone4. My god, I’ve become SO gay.

And to think that I was formerly a Blackberry addict and a proud owner of multiple PCs—starting with a 286 PC I bought by mail order in the 80’s from a company called PCs Limited. As I recall, I paid over $2500 for that primitive thing and was so proud of that green-screened behemoth sitting on our dining room table. I’d have been much better off taking that $2500 and investing it in that company’s IPO at $8.50 a share. You probably know that PCs Limited later changed its name to Dell and the cost of those IPO shares ended up being equal to $.09 per share after a series of stock splits.

And, by the way, I’m not coming out of the closet until after Rush does.