A Rant

Right. Rant hat: on.

Topic of the day: snobbery and Apple. There is a very vocal group out there that pops up every time Apple releases a new product, new feature, or basically anytime Macintoshes are mentioned. No, I'm not talking about the supporters. I'm talking about the people that complain about Mac supporters. According to these people, there is a vast army of slavering Mac zombies out there that diefy the virtues of Apple products, completely oblivious to all these other (obviously better) products. Now, here's the thing. Maybe it's just the communities I frequent (which are, admittedly, mostly gamer communities), but the only marginally oblivious Mac supporter I have ever come across is my Mother. I don't know where people are meeting these eyeless, earless Mac supporters, but seriously, all of you staunch PC supporters out there are making yourself look bad. Like, really fucking bad. Like, I-want-to-buy-Apple-products-just-so-I-don't-have-to-associate-with-you bad.

I get it. Mac's are by no means a perfect machine. But they aren't that bad, either. They do a lot of things really well. Interface design, useability, simplicity; these are things that Macs do very well. Certainly better than Linux, where interfaces are mostly tacked on as an afterthought. And way better than Windows, where making even simple changes to your setup requires hours of work, compounded by inconsistent interfaces and no logical categorization of utilities. Computing flexibility? Mac has the linux command line, bitches. DOS ain't got nothing on that. This isn't to say Mac's aren't without their downsides (high cost, inflexible hardware), but seriously guys: rabid fanboy-ism has never been in style. Try for some objectivity next time, eh?