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Re: How To Get Your Own Fanboys

swivelmaster — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:29:02 -0000

Ah, I believe I misinterpreted what you were saying. That's what I get for scanning.

My complaints weren't so much directed at you directly as to some of the responses to your last post. Many of those who disagreed with you were along the lines of Apple fanboy stuff, but not all of them. Still, the responses to ALL of them were along the lines of "you stupid Apple fanboys are stupid. Wow you're stupid. Stupid McStupidpants."

Also, I said "anti-Apple" and not "Windows." I didn't mean everybody who doesn't use Apple products, I just meant those who specifically are anti-Apple.

Anyway, I'm all about moderation when it comes to stuff like this. Apparently I expect too much from my internets.

At any rate, sure, I'll join your club.

Re: How To Get Your Own Fanboys

swivelmaster — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:26:31 -0000

That was interesting. I don't think it's particularly relevant that Apple is in second place in computers, because they're still (at this point) a ridiculously profitable company. I mean, that's like saying "boy does it suck to be Pepsi!"

I do get a little annoyed though that liking Apple seems to make me a fanboy if I voice that opinion. I don't think anything they make is perfect, but I prefer it to the alternatives and I can name a number of reasons for that. Maybe some of them are subjective; I'm aware of that.

And anti-Apple folks are just as condescending about Apple fans as Apple fanboys can be about everyone else. I guess your own shit just never stinks, eh?

Re: My Mac Mini

swivelmaster — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:39:14 -0000

Insidious fingers? As far as I know, while apps do leave preferences and other miscellany, none of it affects the way the computer actually runs or causes conflicts. The exception to this is apps that require preference panes or drivers, but those are very rare indeed.

I do occasionally go clean up my prefs folder, deleting prefs for demos and games I don't play anymore, but I prefer that to possible DLL conflicts and what not.

Re: My Mac Mini

swivelmaster — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:28:54 -0000

There are plenty of Mac programs that have normal installers. A lot of them (mostly the smaller ones, obviously) use the "drag this to your Applications folder" method because, well, that's all you should need. Everything the program needs in order to run is in one file - like you said, no DLL's. Anyway, if you use Safari, it automatically mounts the dmg's, so that's one less step.

I agree that it's sort of a weird system, but I prefer it to the "download exe, run installer, click through several screens, click okay when it's done, then delete installer" route.

I've been using Macs consistently for fifteen years and I barely ever use the maximize button, so.... you're just weird. Or maybe I am, I don't know. I just clicked it in Safari to see what would happen and it made the window tall but not wide. It figures.

I don't understand the dual monitor problem. I've never had trouble with it.

I could go on for hours about what annoys me about Macs, Apple products, OS X, etc. (iTunes freezes up when I add mp3's as it tries to sort out album art, also freezes up for a few seconds when I start to update my ipod, quicktime has no idea how to handle movies with odd aspect ratios and doesn't support as many formats as Final Cut Pro, Safari used to have a weird bug that would make it hang for minutes at a time if I opened a new window after not using the program for a while, it's impossible to undo certain Finder actions that are too easy to perform by accident, too many files of unix origin are still hidden from the GUI and require Terminal to get to, environment variables and various other unix stuff doesn't work exactly the same in OS X, but the differences are small enough to be confusing, my sound card makes my speakers make loud popping noises when I open VLC, etc., etc. etc.)

So given all that, I find it strange that you are annoyed with those specific things. And yes, after all those complaints, I still prefer OS X to Windows.

Also, yes the genius bar is stupid. I ordered my Mac online - no hassle.