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Jul 14, 09 - 12:46 am Comment from: Regular Reader

Idiot. Period.

Jul 14, 09 - 12:47 am Comment from: Mac Daddy

I think Ballmer's kids secretly use macbooks. And iPods. And, God forbid, iPhones. At least when the fat gasbag isn't looking.

The bias on this site is getting out of hand. MDN continues to progress further into the hole. I just hope the childish comments on the takes can end. What a waste of a read.

Jul 14, 09 - 01:02 am Comment from: twilightmoon

@ Lifeinmontreal

"Oh, Clarice, your problem is you need to get more fun out of life."

Jul 14, 09 - 01:05 am Comment from: John Crawford

@Lifeinmontreal

Don't read it then.

Jul 14, 09 - 01:14 am Comment from: james73

a good friend of mine called me the other day and asked me to help him pick out a macbook pro, he's getting a 15" mbp. his reasoning for switching from pc to mac? his iphone, he loves it, and he also wants a laptop that'll last him for 5 or more years.

once the 15" mbp come in he's also paying me to transfer his documents, set up his machine, and give him some training. since i'm back in school this'll be great for me as i can use the extra scratch.

So it's biased to point out that Dvorak's son switching to a Macbook Pro is no big deal considering that Dvorak himself switched to a Mac back in 2007, making his whole article a rather lame bit of click-whoring?

I pine for the day when "bias" is no longer the popular word for scrutiny.

Jul 14, 09 - 01:35 am Comment from: Ferf Muckmeyer

I think Microsoft, like all companies in this recession, is cutting back. This must have included what ever was paid to the butt brain Dvorak.

To even think that Dvorak is a legitimate columnist in the tech industry makes me sick. He's been an Apple basher for years. Now he waffles back and forth between PC and Mac as of late. And he's ogling over his kid's shiny new toy and he wants one himself.

I don't think the guy grew a brain all of a sudden. I think that common sense is something that is acquired over time, and he has nothing left in his arsenal to fire. The guy may just get it now - that this is the best notebook out there and nothing else comes close.

But I'll reserve judgment on that until he writes his next masterpiece.

fm

Jul 14, 09 - 01:35 am Comment from: blah blah blah...

@lifeinmontreal
you do realize this is a mac fan boy site that despises anything PC? this isn't exactly the best place to try to find quality articles that compares mac and pc very nicely, but a free for fall flogging towards microsoft and PCs. Not to mention a fun place for all of us Mac users how funny it is to see the pains PC makers and Microsoft goes through. We are the inside crowd laughing at the outside or is it we are outside laughing at all those in the inside still defragging, clearing out viruses, reloading windows and all apps people.
pluse good job James73 the old couple down the street bought me a case of beer for setting them up with their new Macbook. i'm a cheap labor worker.

Jul 14, 09 - 01:41 am Comment from: Ferf Muckmeyer

@Lifeinmontreal,

While we can get a bit harsh at times, remember how the industry treated us not too long ago. It's not about tit-for-tat, but as Mac fans we all took a beating over the years that was never deserved. Now we have the last laugh and we sometimes like to exploit that, and most of it is just in fun. If it's biased, so be it. But the greater value to all of us is that it is one of the best news sources for Mac users everywhere. I think you need to look at it from that perspective first and foremost.

Jul 14, 09 - 02:34 am Comment from: flappo

he's changed his tune

Jul 14, 09 - 02:44 am Comment from: flappo

i love anti mac dorks like dvorak

when they eventually switch - and they will - they end up being the worst kind of mac zealots imaginable

i know this from experience

one of my 'pals' was a rabid windows fanboy - arguing with me all the time - it got really boring really quick

then last year he was 'given' a mac pro for his work - let's just say the guy's 100% converted

even bought the matching macbook , ipod touch , iphone ensemble to go with it

once you go mac , you never go back

Jul 14, 09 - 02:51 am Comment from: Macaday

Yes Dvorak. You indeed wasted your professional life.

It's never too late...

@MDN - tell us what you really think!!

Jul 14, 09 - 03:51 am Comment from: Jamie

Dvorak has a child? You mean a woman actually allowed him to penetrate her?

Christ, there's hope for anyone if he can get laid...

Jul 14, 09 - 05:45 am Comment from: Mister Snitch

Dvorak is so far past tiresome that he no longer even has the power to inspire even mild outrage. I haven't followed a link back to anything he's posted in more years than I can recall. Didn't follow this one, either. He hates Apple? So what? He loves Apple? So what? Just don't care.

I like people with attitude - for example the person behind MDN. Who is he/she?

My favorite:

A response from 'John C. Dvorak' regarding an MDN article from July 14, 2009...

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/17900/

JCD quoting MDN: "Here lies a bloated hit whore who baited Web surfers with petty, snide, jealous remarks about vastly superior people and products. In a sad irony, his words rang completely hollow because he did not even believe what he wrote himself, using his words instead to entice clicks from an ubiquitous device that he could not even foresee as useful."

JCD response: 'Fsck me with a rusty knife. It'd be less painful than having to read MDN's Take again.'

Anyone else surprised that Dvorak actually mated?

Jul 14, 09 - 06:47 am Comment from: montex

Hey MDN, everybody know Dvoark's stchick. Save your bile for Thurott, who truly deserves it.

Jul 14, 09 - 07:19 am Comment from: Zune Tang®

I sensed a disturbance in the force this morning.

Your potential. Our passion.™

"It was a somber day..."
Or was it a sober day?

Basically 2 types of peeps... Mac and PC, the latter lack IQ.

Evidently he is also illiterate. It should be If I were not if I was

Did you guys know that Dvorak used to write for MacUser magazine?

I know, because I used to buy that magazine.

Jul 14, 09 - 08:13 am Comment from: Predrag

AI:

You are technically correct, but there has been a very strong movement in favour of complete abolition of the subjunctive mood from the English language. I know it would be a loss, but at this point, so few people actually know how to use it (with the exception of, ironically, the above phrase: 'If I were...', which apparently, Dvorak doesn't know), you'd have a hard time finding it anywhere today.

I always liked Dvorak's column in MacWorld... way back in the day. He was like the tech industry's Andy Rooney.

Jul 14, 09 - 08:26 am Comment from: Forrest, Forrest Gump

@Jamie:

The boy is adopted, I think.


Stupid is as stupid does®

Oops... MacUser, not MacWorld, duh. I still have some of those old magazines from 1990.

Jul 14, 09 - 08:42 am Comment from: qka

Evidence that stupidity is not hereditary.

Jul 14, 09 - 08:54 am Comment from: Buster

He is a veritable cesspool of nonsensical DNA base sequences.

@LifeinMontreal...don't make me embarrassed to be a Montrealer. Although at times MDN can be over the top, in Dvorak's case, it is justified. In fact it was tamer than he deserves.

Hit whore
Lack of integrity
Idiot
Unethical
Diddler of small furry animals....well its possible....

Jul 14, 09 - 09:10 am Comment from: DLMeyer

life is not alone in his opinion of MDN's childish, nay, INFANTILE rants against the various tools which make up the PC world. There are certainly more mature ways to be just as snarky, they just require a bit more thought.
J.C.D. is a hit-whore. No argument there. He used to mine the modest Mac Faithful, with titles designed to infuriate and charges spun of the flimsiest nonsense. Now he is switching his target to the PC Faithful. Not the typical PC User, who buys whatever and gets whatever OS comes with it. No, these are the PC users who actually believe in the superiority of Microsoft's products.
To do this, he must neglect to "recall" that he has posted similar inflammatory articles in the past. Think of him as a techie Rush Limbaugh, with a similar tenuous connection to "the truth" ... and reality.

@ Sober

For many: Doesn't sober = somber?

Jul 14, 09 - 09:43 am Comment from: Jubei

Finally "Jabba the Hut" speaks.

Jul 14, 09 - 09:49 am Comment from: Uncle Al

OK, as long as the grammar police have already arrived, I believe he meant to write "half staff" rather than "half mast." Unless he's living on a ship. The USS HItWhore, perhaps?

In MacUser, Dvorak was billed as "the anti-Editor" and wrote opinion pieces that often took Apple to task. The guy is simply a writer trying to make a buck. He discovered a long time ago that he could gain notoriety by poking sharp sticks at impassioned groups of techies. That's his schtick. Frankly, it's not a bad gig. And a lot easier than laying bricks.

Jul 14, 09 - 09:57 am Comment from: Anonymous©

You know what, the MDN take is what makes the stories interesting. Whether you hate them or like them or go back and forth between hate and like, they get a response from people, just like they were intended to do.

@MacGoon
Trust me, they're plenty of idiots who use macs. Just look online and you're sure to find them.

Jul 14, 09 - 10:09 am Comment from: Roberto

A MacBook Pro for $1050.00 ???

Heh...Jaime said penetrated ; )

Jul 14, 09 - 10:25 am Comment from: motopsyco

I used to hate Dvorak with a passion. But after watching him on TWiT I've come to view him as just a funny old drunk.

Jul 14, 09 - 10:56 am Comment from: Demon

233Dvorak mated and the spawn switched to a Mac as Dvorak did himself is really a turning point in the PC industry. Dvorak is known for his love of PCs and Microsoft and Hate of Apple products and the people who use them.
So, when you get a guy like Dvorak switching it is a big indicator as to the long term trend in the market. Even though John is a bloated gas bag who writes shit just to get people to read his out dated opinions it does not discount the importance of the switching to the Mac as the indicator. Dvorak's dribbling on technology and computers is best compared as a Caveman's view on todays sociological and economical behaviors of modern man. But, this comparison can apply to almost all of today's Technology journalist and writers. They are dinosaurs commenting on technologies that they do not understand. Less then 1% of today's Journalist are actual qualified to report and comment on technology.
In my opinion of technology qualified journalist most of them lack the ethics to do the job properly, nor do then understand what ethics are needed.

$1050 and a free iPod! That's a great deal. What happened to "Apple tax"?

I noticed MS lowered their dollar amount in those crappy commercials to $700 now in response to Apple lowering their prices.

MDN, read what Dvorak wrote in the previous article:

"I have no plans to move to the Mac platform for my personal use"

Stop saying he switched to Mac, he didn't.

Jul 14, 09 - 11:36 am Comment from: Spark

Correction to my earlier post (I think):
Dvorak was the "Anti-Editor" in MacAddict, not MacUser.

Jul 14, 09 - 11:59 am Comment from: twodales

MDN
You need to go back and read this article again, near the end Dvorak claims that the Apple Stores are a detriment to selling Macs!?? Stupid is as stupid does.

In my opinion, Dvorak is a "professional" columnist (as opposed to "thinking"): he'll write whatever his boss tells him to write, but he adds a touch of humour.

Jul 14, 09 - 12:46 pm Comment from: Not Bill

Dvorak should hire Zune Tang as a personal coach. He needs to get his form back.

Jul 14, 09 - 01:17 pm Comment from: auramac

There are worse people out there than comedian John Dvorak. I find him amusing. I'd rather hear Dvorak say that he'd buy a Mac "today" than a lot of the other Apple-bashing crap out there now, even the Mac whiners. At least he didn't talk about Steve Jobs' health!

"Two fingers on the pad and you can do all sorts of fancy moves that are slick and interesting".

Try three or four fingers! Try right click without any buttons!

Sorry to be cruel!

Jul 14, 09 - 01:59 pm Comment from: Me In LA

If you can't get hits with FUD, change tactics.
What a moron.
Just like Obama - oops, I mean he's "recalibrating" as the libs call it.

LOL