A few reasons why I, and most of the world hates Macs:
First off, the iMac. It's the biggest rip-off in the history of computers. I can get
a better PC for almost half the price and it would be extremely high quality!! I mean to open up
the computer u have to use the old fashioned way, a hammer and chisel. That computer is about
as upgradeable as their old apple IIe! I would love to meet the genius who designed the computer.
Now if you are viewing this page with a Mac you must have fallen asleep while typing in your URL
and awoke this morning finding this page only half loaded, how sad. I sympathize with you Mac
owners and realize that you either have a lot of money and like to waste it (personally I would
rather spend $2000 on a burlap sack full of cow manure) or you are misinformed.
I've always wondered why Macintoshes, which are supposed to be magically user-friendly, just
don't seem to have the same logical features in their hardware. Here's an example. Widespread use
of the mouse made computing faster, easier, and from then on it required a lot less typing.
However, even today, Macintosh doesn't even offer a 2 button mouse. "But it makes it so
user-friendly!" Mac supporters fervently whine. Is that really so much more user-friendly? What if
I don't want to open something? What if I want to change the properties of something? Delete
something without bloating that annoying trash can in the bottom of the screen? Wouldn't life
with a Mac be easier if they could just develop a two-button mouse?
Another example is the annoying setup of the keyboards on Macs. The arrow keys. Argh! Didn't
anyone realize that putting the up and down arrows in a line with the right and left arrows was a
bad, bad idea? Ever try to scroll back through a paper on an incredibly slow Mac, only to realize
that you were holding down the wrong arrow by accident? Yet more useless keys on the Macs are
end and home. If you try to use the end or home keys in all but the newest of Mac software,
nothing happens. You can almost hear the designers of the Mac laughing maniacally, "Hahaha,
fools! They will keep trying to use end, even though we made it do nothing! Absolutely nothing!
Mwa, ha, ha!" Why is it there? You'd think, after successive designs of having a completely
meaningless key, that they would take it off of the keyboard.
One of the worst though of features of Macs has to be the annoying, stupid disk drive. Who was
the total idiot that thought it was a good idea to make the disk eject only when the computer was
on? Why was this a good idea? How many times can it possibly happen that you are working on a
Mac, trying so very hard to get your disk out, and the computer locks up and you have to wait 15
minutes for the computer to reboot to get your disk? Wouldn't it just be simpler to hit the eject
button next to the drive?
Another bad, bad idea is the power switch. Instead of logically putting the power switch on the
front of the computer, it's hidden somewhere. Hunting for this switch can often become a
challenging puzzle game. It sometimes takes longer to turn the computer on or off than it does to
write a complete thesis.
Another poorly thought of idea for Macs is upgrading. It is completely impossible to try to install
new hardware for Macs, because usually Macs don't have enough bays to expand to. And how
many Macs have you seen with CD-ROM drives? I suppose that might be true because Mac
software is usually at best a good year behind the PC software market. By the time some software
comes out for the Mac, it has already been made obsolete on the PC market. Mac users argue that
their computers rarely require upgrading, but that's because there isn't any software released that
challenges the system. A good example of Mac software being so far behind is Netscape. Searching
the net for any more than 3 or more pages becomes agonizing. Sure, Mac OS may appear faster at
first on what is supposed to be a slower machine, but that's mainly because it's running antiquated
software that most PC's could run several copies of simultaneously.
Yes, this brings us to the OS. How pathetic this OS is now. Yes, Macintosh did popularize the
Graphical User Interface. Yes, Windows was originally an idea spawned by Macintosh's OS.
However, the Mac OS today is not much different than it was when it was first developed. Macs
still have colorless gray screens, bland icons, and that annoying apple up in the corner of the
screen. Macintosh users boast about how their computers can have multiple tasks open
simultaneously, but this makes every program run ever so much more slowly. And if you are a
user who has a memory hog of a program like Netscape open, forget about using any other
program at the same time. In fact, just forget about using your computer ever again.
"An error of type 11 has occurred."
"An unexpected error has just occurred"
"There is not enough memory to save this document. Try closing other programs and then trying
again."
These are just a few of the cryptic and obnoxious errors that can spontaneously pop up when
using a Mac. Does anyone know what the hell an error of type 11 is without looking it up in a
manual? Is there such a thing as an expected error? This has to be the biggest and most annoying
problem with the Mac OS; it has a total lack of stability. How often does DOS crash when it is just
sitting there? Never. Windows? Win95? Occasionally when you try to open several things at once,
or when you try to save or print multiple documents simultaneously. But the Mac, it crashes for
the heck of it. If you swear at it, it crashes. Every 7th program open crashes. If you go take a piss
and leave your computer on, yes, you guessed it, it crashes. Crashes wouldn't really be as bad if
the error messages were somewhat more descriptive so you could avoid doing them in the future.
One can't really avoid the everyday "unexpected error" because nobody knows what the hell it is,
and the computer isn't about to tell you.
