MACs...

Not just MACs - anything and everything Apple-related. If Apple discovered a cure for cancer, I'd probably refuse to use it just on principle. Yes, I am that irrational about Apple and it's products.

Why? Because, back in the mists of time, I was trying to get a fucking MAC onto a network and it was doing my head in. I finally snapped when a smiley face popped up on the screen and cheerily informed me that:

"You don't need to know how to do that...."

- or words to that effect. I very nearly dropped kick the smug fucking bastard of a machine. But that experience has tainted MACs in my head and I can't break out of that mindset now. Which again, is totally irrational as I've had far worse experiences with PCs:

Waiting 25 minutes for a Novell server to boot while several hundred users were baying for my blood.

Watching in horror as an entire mail-queue evaporated before my eyes.

Having a PC just refuse to do *anything* right at the start of an important demo and than happily burst into life as soon as everyone leaves.

Yes, I've had far more grief from PCs than Apple gear but still the hatred remains.

cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 7:22, 7 replies)

Ah, Novell...
That brings back (mostly) happy memories .
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 1 Apr 2011, 8:14, closed)

Same Here

Ideal set-up was Novell for file and print, NT for application servers. I didn't turn completely to the darkside until Windows 2000 came out and the writing was well and truly on the wall for Novell..

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 8:26, closed)

I get all dewey eyed thinking about the joy of recovering recently deleted files with two clicks and not
resorting to a fucking DLT.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 1 Apr 2011, 15:54, closed)

it's not MAC's...
it's MAC Users - THEY'RE the smug cunts! the arrogant.....

*walks away from keyboard before the blood vessel in my eye exlodes...*
(TheManofScience, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 8:41, closed)

b3ta.com/questions/wasteofmoney/post888087
(Bad Monkey hasn't had an abusive gaz since, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 9:21, closed)

PLUS they fucked Adam up and now we're all hated by god and Muslims and shit. Cuntapples.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 10:07, closed)

Up to a point, Lord Copper
If like one of my close rellies, you're in end-stage MS and you have fuck all fine motor control, iOS is a godsend. Same if you're blind: behindthecurtain.us/2010/06/12/my-first-week-with-the-iphone/

Otherwise, it really is an "overpriced Fisher-Price activity centre"
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 14:20, closed)