- Joined
- Feb 9, 2011
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- 184
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- Location
- Hong Kong
- Your Mac's Specs
- 21½" 3.6GHz Core i5 iMac, 12GB Crucial RAM
Its like reverse racism almost. All my computer friends that could have cared less one way or the other, all of a sudden, seem to be snubbing me because I bought a Mac...a "Quackintosh" as one puts it. I get poked at occasionally, asked how my Fisher-Price toy handles on the web, and get asked a lot of (in my opinion, meaningless) benchmark questions in order to "prove" the superiority of their PCs.
I get the full verbal rub on how much I paid in comparison to theirs, get ridiculed in raids in WOW..."hurry up, he's on a Mac and it could blow up at ANY TIME!" Any conversation that steers close to computers, I find myself on the short end of the joke, and I'm sick of it. Hodges burns music for everyone...but wait, Jimmy's got a Mac, can your widdle machine handle it? John sends everyone a link...and makes sure and mention in a CC that hopefully Jimmy's aluminum toy can bring it up. "It speaks Klingon" they say. Web Forums I've belonged to for years now have virtual rednecks catcalling me for buying a Mac. I'm sick of it!
I consider myself to be reasonably intelligent. I've built countless PCs, managed several sites, and researched the poo out of my next computer choice before I got a Mac. I believe I got the right computer for me, so why am I being made to feel guilty for it? Why am I suddently the red-headed stepchild of the technology world now that I bought an Apple?
Does it get better? Did your friends, both online and IRL eventually accept youir decision and move on, or do they continue to go all 3rd grade on you forever?
I get the full verbal rub on how much I paid in comparison to theirs, get ridiculed in raids in WOW..."hurry up, he's on a Mac and it could blow up at ANY TIME!" Any conversation that steers close to computers, I find myself on the short end of the joke, and I'm sick of it. Hodges burns music for everyone...but wait, Jimmy's got a Mac, can your widdle machine handle it? John sends everyone a link...and makes sure and mention in a CC that hopefully Jimmy's aluminum toy can bring it up. "It speaks Klingon" they say. Web Forums I've belonged to for years now have virtual rednecks catcalling me for buying a Mac. I'm sick of it!
I consider myself to be reasonably intelligent. I've built countless PCs, managed several sites, and researched the poo out of my next computer choice before I got a Mac. I believe I got the right computer for me, so why am I being made to feel guilty for it? Why am I suddently the red-headed stepchild of the technology world now that I bought an Apple?
Does it get better? Did your friends, both online and IRL eventually accept youir decision and move on, or do they continue to go all 3rd grade on you forever?