I want to buy a 2.4Ghz MacBook and my mom asked me why

[torbjoern]

That has got to be one of the worst editorials ever written. Nothing like trying to prove a clearly personal bias as a practical argument.

From the summer of year 2000, I had terrible experience with Apple computers for nearly 12 months. My horror stories with the G3 iMac (and OS 9) are too graphic to describe in here without initiating a flame-war, so I'll let it be this time. My point is that when I was skeptical to macs in the first place, this didn't change to the better when I heard arguments like the ones in the editiorial at hand. Obvious mac-fanboy is obvious, and I'm more than tempted to replace the word "fanboy" with a monosyllabic word which in my opinion would be more suitable.

"It just works"?? At the time when my friend used the same argument in 2001, I could have said the same about my Toshiba laptop running Windows Millennium Ed. "Brilliant simplicity"??? Does the writer think I'm stupid?

I really don't mind that the writer is biased, although I would refrain from writing normative statements in the very title ("Why Professionals (and Everyone Should) Use a Mac") if I were him. However, when referring to hitting ALT + four-digit ASCII-codes as a dual-hand operation for an auto-erotic activity, he reveals himself as the kind of person who made me even more bashful about macs for many years: a smug elitist who deep inside wants to keep the macs under-purchased. It took no less than a professor in Computing Science to convince me that Apple actually makes good computers.

Who said there's nothing wrong in being a fanboy?

 

[Andy_M]

Well I don't where to put this so here we go.

I have been thinking about buying a 2.4Ghz MacBook and my mom asked me why. We have a alright laptop a hp dv6000 special edition and it works fine as much as a pc can but the screen seems poor and this REALY bothers me because I do allot of photo editing with PS on my laptop and the colors seem off. I know I could get calibrators to correct it but switching to a mac seems fun and the right thing to do.

So what are some other reasons to switch?

Few pointers you could say

• No Viruses or software to protect needed.
• Wont let you view porn
• Holds its premium value longer
• makes a sexy paper weight when your grounded