“A few months ago I told you how, after two decades in the PC universe, I was considering buying a Mac. The immediate trigger was a really bad experience with a new Gateway computer. But there was a broader dissatisfaction with PCs and interest in trying out Macs. Also, in the field I work in — journalism and web design — Macs are fairly dominant. So I got a Mac Mini to test the water and a nice Mac Cinema display, figuring that if I liked Macs the display would migrate with me when I got a more powerful Mac system,” Josh Marshall writes for Talking Points Memo.
“So I wanted to take a moment and report back on what my experiences have been,” Marshall writes. “Basically, I’m sold. I’ve been using a PC at home and a Mac at work for several months now. And I just prefer using the Mac. A lot. Some of it is simple ease of use, the ‘it just works factor’. It runs with few or no problems. And not having to worry about computer viruses is nice. I’m also doing a lot more working with video… When I think about it, it’s hard for me to point to any one thing that I prefer about the Mac. I’m a pretty adept PC user. And I’m usually able to fix or workaround whatever problems crop up. I think what it comes down to for me is basically three things.”
Marshall’s list:
• Quality: Quality of the physical product and its integration with the operating system itself, which also seems light years ahead of Windows. The thing’s just made really well and it shows
• Integration: It’s hard to point to any one thing that makes too big a difference. But they build on each other. And all told, they lead to a more pleasant and productive work experience. The new Macs have a suite of programs (iLife) for organizing and editing your photos, videos, music, etc. Amazingly powerful and well-designed. Just right there, ready to use, perfect. If you’re working with graphics and video and anything to do with design, it’s just not even close.
• Aesthetics and It Just Works: I like the way the Mac looks and the physical presentation on the screen is vastly nicer than on a PC. Also, things just work a whole lot easier. I plug things in and they work.
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Oh, those liberals.
I like them!!!
Why does it matter if the blogger is liberal or conservative? A switch is a switch.
I think the title should read: “Blogger on switch from Windows to Mac: I’m sold”
Tony D’Annunzio: Another Rob Roy, Bishop?
Bishop: You never ask a navy man if he’ll have another drink, because it’s nobody’s goddamned business how much he’s had already.
Judge Smails: Wrong, you’re drinking too much your Excellency.
Bishop: Excellency, fiddlesticks, my name’s Fred and I’m a man, same as you.
Judge Smails: You’re not a man, you’re a bishop, for God’s sakes.
Bishop: There is no God…
well DUH?!!
Of course he likes Mac toys, he’s a liberal, gay, homo, apple sack muncher!
Mac users need to stop guzzling man pudding. Mac users need to stop knee-jerking and circle-jerking. Mac users need to stop the tree-hugging. Mac users need to stop chowing down the baby batter. Mac users need to stop frequenting the bath houses. Mac users need to stop swallowing man sausage. No more packing of fudge, you H-mo gay fags!
Windows rules and when Apple dies, I’ll be happy! I hope you gay Commie Mac fags cry forever once they finally turn out the lights for good in Cupertino!
Issues, ron?
you make me hot when you talk like that, Ron…all…forceful and manly…
uh huh, liberal that figures.
nobody but a homo lefty uses macs anyway, he is right at home.
too bad he follows the sheep like all liberals instead of doing what everyone knows is best.
really they only want to change to say they changed something, its never for the better, just like going mac.
only the quality thing is bull, my friend’s dell is built like a tank, not all a flimsy thin apple thing.
liberals and conservatives both use macs, someone is going to say, but conservatives use them to show off the wealth they earned by hard work, thats different from just sticking it to microsoft because your a bleeding heart blogger.
anyway, who cares what a blogger uses, my dell has 10x the gamez.
Ron.
Dude you’ve got to get back on your meds….Pronto
oh man ron i almost wet myself, u show them kool-aid kiddies! what can anybody say to that?
PWNED!11!!! u rock
Liberals tend to mean homosexuals, which tend to like eyecandy products like Mac’s.
Of course BustingtheSkullsofIdiots doesn’t have a sex, it’s genderless. Hairless too, with blue veins visible through it’s skin.
No eyebrows and only three toes.
7up
“my dell has 10x the gamez”?
you’re forgetting one thing…boot camp
Nice1 7up, that was hilarious.
These types of articles are awesome – we need MORE of this stuff!!! I guess the good thing is that this (hopefully) will be like dominos.
Yeah you homolicious! queertastic! Fudgpimpi– oh wait, I’m a liberal. Damn, I got all caught up in it.
Sounds like some people have been eating paint chips again.
Microsoft could change their logo to a swastika. Then Ron and 7up can show their true colors at last. As Brown Shirt Fascists.
But then Ron and 7up probably don’t need to wait for Microsoft to adopt what they already have adopted — long ago.
The problem is there are two ron’s on this site. Ron, the normal, everyday mac user… and ron, the homophobe flame baiting mac basher.
I’m guessing that this iteration of ron is the backwoods, deliverance loving ron who squeals like a pig for his cousin/brother/daddy and actually likes living in a shack in the Appalachian mountains.
I mean, give him a break folks. It’s gotta be confusing when your mom calls you over and you don’t know if you’re gonna get a hug or a feel up.
Besides, it’s not his fault that he’s accessing the internet from a pentium 2 machine with a 14.4 modem connected to a dial up party line phone that gets interrupted every time his brother shoots off another toe “accidentally” and they call uncle fester to come over and sew it back on.
He’s obviously living in 1993 and hasn’t been connected to the news lately. Anybody that thinks Windows is gonna win in the long run is deluded.
MDN word is “one”… as in he’s just one more mac hating gay bashing flame baiter. Seems like redmond produces them faster than hackers create new windows viruses.
I looked at his site and I wouldn’t call him a “liberal” blogger, just an “intelligent and reasonable” blogger.
Man, I wish the USA had an intelligent and reasonable president. That would be so awesome.
The phrase antecedent is also true.
Subtract gamers like 7up from the installed base of WinDoo users, and there will be only a couple of hundred people left.
Same goes for the Internet: Subtract those who use it exclusively for porn, and only the gamers will be left.
QED.
Now only if we could convince breeders to come to the gay side.
Dick Cheney’s daughter, who was head of his re-election campaign, is gay. Does that make her a liberal?
Ron, and 7up… 7up your bung? When an animal is threatened, the side effects are ugly. Both you guys need tranquilizers and a nice soft bed, surrounded by nice soft walls. The times, they are a changin’, get with it, or get the f__k out of the way.
Nick,
I just can’t wrap my head around gay or black republicans. That’s just seems IMPOSSIBLE to me. Do they hate themselves?
I think we should forget the whole “republican” and “democrat” thing, and focus more on “stupid” or “intelligent” instead.