Why i'm still not going to buy a mac
My feelings are pretty much expessed by Gus Sorola (I know it's an old video, but it's still hilarious). Mac fanboys disregarded, I don't think anyone who plays video games the way I play video games (And likely that precludes mac fanboys right off the bat), just can't own one of these things (unless you also happened to have a sweet gaming rig). The lack of compatibility for various hardware that one would want in a gaming system is damning, but more over the lack of compatibility with the games I would want to play, (i.e. games that are out now, plus games that have been out for a while, and not necessarly sold SO many copies that the publisher felt it was economically viable to port it to mac to sell some more) is a complete dealbreaker. Yes, I know about Boot Camp. But saying the solution to my problem is to run Windows on a mac is like calling a cab to go two houses down the wrong way on a one way street: Yeah, you're where you want to be, but it took you more time and effort when you could have just walked.
I'm a gamer, i'm going to own a PC. Until Apple does something that makes it highly desirable for a gamer to own a mac (running OSX, the main advantage of owning a mac), instead of a PC, there's precious little urge for me to move. The fact that they're shiny and well designed isn't compelling if they don't do what I want.
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i suppose that you admitting that gaming is the major reason you wouldn't buy a mac is almost a victory for them.
i mean, no one can be delusional enough to think that the intel switch was going to be a major inroads into the hearts of gamers everywhere. but hey, if they (and ads suggest they are) targeting the non-gamer hipster set, you very nearly suggested macs to their demo.
talk to me sometime, brother. it has been a while.
Well, in reality the Intel switch didn't really do much of anything for anyone. I suppose it opens up roads to hardware people to develop things for a more marketable archetecture, etc., but to the user, gamer or not, PowerPC vs. x86 is an irrelvenant conversation.
I AM advocating macs to the non-gamer hipster set, I have always said that if you want a pretty computer, that's easy to use (although not overly more so than the PC), a mac is for you.
If you are a gamer, you will own a PC and use windows. You can't do anything else.
If you are a programmer, you will own a PC, and use either Linux or Windows, depending on how much of a fanboy you are, (even then, it's hard to beat Visual Studio).
If you're into Video editing, you're going to own a G5, because you're going to want to use Final Cut Studio.
If you're just using your computer to do things that ANY computer can do... Internet, music, word processing, etc., then it doesn't much matter what you use, other factors will come into play. If you're a hipster, you're probably going to go mac, because they're hot right now, because they've sold an image to you, and you buy that image. And that's fine. They're not really any easier to use than a PC, and yes they come bundled with some software, but that software is easy to use, and limited.
Most people go PC, and run windows, because that's the default stance. It's cheap, it's easy, yeah, it's a little shaky sometimes, but an iMac (the low end desktop) starts at $1,299. You can buy a Dell PC for $272. That's less than certain models of iPod If you're a normal person who doesn't care about computers, what are you going to pick?
I love my mac :)
and not just because it is pretty
but yes, I will be vamping up my desktop for Spore :P
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