To Not Buy a Mac — 5 Reasons
Get off your high horse, Apple fan boys.
Two high profile domainers recently made the switch from PC to Mac. I’m not joining the club. My wife’s employer forces her to use a mac, and actually using one of these things shows you they aren’t perfect and not worth the fuss.
Ahead of I get started with 5 reasons to not buy a Mac, here’s a little situational humor…
I was sitting with a group of entrepreneurs the other day. One stated he was having problems with his laptop. A mac fan in the group stated, “well, you could just get a Mac”. To which another person in the group stated, “yes, or I suppose you could just get a typewriter”.
So here goes….
1. Macs aren’t bullet proof. Everyone complains regarding Windows. To be sure, Vista is not Microsoft’s finest product ever. But Macs aren’t perfect either. When my wife got her Macbook a year ago the keyboard would randomly freeze up. It turns out the operating system was shipped with an error and she had to download a patch. Oh, and most Macbooks are completely software based, so you can’t do things like eject a DVD or change the volume without doing it through the software.
2. Where’s the right click button? Yes, I know you can adjust the system to work with a right click. But that defeats the simplicity. Software applications use the right click button for a reason.
3. Compatibility. So you want to use that special software program on your Mac? Good luck. Even Google releases PC versions first, then Mac. Now wait…what’s that? I hear a fanboy saying “well I can just install Windows on my Mac”. Again, that defeats the purpose. How many Mac buyers know how to do that? And those pricey cords you need to buy to attach your Macbook to a monitor? There’s a reason people hate proprietary products like that. (By the way, never buy memory at an Apple Store. They’ll charge you 4 times what comparable memory costs).
4. Apple Store employees. They look smart with their long hair and geeky t-shirts. But I think half of them have never used an Apple product in their life ahead of working there. They sell you the wrong cord or give you the wrong answer. It got three different answers asking three different Apple store employees if my Firewire car iPod adapter would work with the latest iPods. (Correct answer: it won’t, Apple changed the charging to USB a while ago and now you have to buy an adapter).
5. Money. Call it the Mac tax. Pay 35% more for comparable equipment, not to mention more for compatible software and accessories (see #3). That’s the subject of a fresh Windows advertising campaign:
But in a nod to the Apple fan boys out there, here’s one of the funniest Onion News videos I’ve seen in a long time.
Apple Introduces Revolutionary Fresh Laptop With No Keyboard
