This is why I own consoles

[giza]

Let's see how long until the comments turn into a flame war... the clock starts NOW.

Comments

[simbab.livejournal.com]

Heh. No offense, but this doesn't do anything to dispel the smug-asshole aura around the Mac community.

And how many of those shiny new Macbooks do you think have XP on them...precisely for this purpose? I'll bet that Apple tracks that (provided you use official software to do it) and I'll bet it ain't pretty.

[dustwing.livejournal.com]

My macbook runs XP, and as soon as I get the transfer I'm putting one of those red circle with a line through it (I dont know what to call it other than the "no" sign >.>) over my glowy apple >.>

[giza.livejournal.com]

So... why did you buy a Mac if you weren't going to run OS/X on it?

[dustwing.livejournal.com]

Uarts forces all students to have them starting last semester. If it was up to me, I would have prefered to use the cash to upgrade my desktop

[giza.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's completely and totally WTF.

I'm not sure we should count use a Mac user, since it sounds like you've been shanghaied. ;-)

Huh . . .

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

So that's how Mac users breed. I always wondered . . .

Re: Huh . . .

[rook543.livejournal.com]

Damn! There goes my spore theory....

[girtygrin.livejournal.com]

So pretty much what this is sayaing is PC is to relationship as Mac is to sex.

It makes sense. I always figured Mac users slept around a lot and probebly have a bunch of STDs.

[bikerwalla.livejournal.com]

Technical specs aside, the Mac user tends to seek out other Mac users. So it does make you more attractive.

[triggur.livejournal.com]

...in the same way alcoholics and sexual assault victims tend to seek each other out for solace as well?

:)

[giza.livejournal.com]

Hmm.

First I taught omnibahumut how to drink like a fish.

Then he got a Mac after seeing mine.


...I'm scared now.

[tailen.livejournal.com]

In my experience Mac users sit at their computers just as much as PC users.

Also, it's pretty much a self-selected sampleset because people who play games wouldn't get a Mac in the first place. This comic just seems to turn promiscuousness, cheating on your partner, and the fact that computer games can't run into... good things?

[normanrafferty.livejournal.com]

Estimated number of Mac OS X users: 22 million (March 2007)
Number of Mac users who play World of Warcraft: Over 10 Million (January 2008)
Number of Mac users who use Boot Camp to boot World of Warcraft under a non-Mac OS: unavailable at press time

[whitefeet.livejournal.com]

Just to clarify a bit, the 10 million number for WoW is PC and Mac users.

And no clue why mac users would play the Windows version of WoW when it's out for Mac as well O_o

[rook543.livejournal.com]

Bah! Amigas kick both their asses!

[giza.livejournal.com]

I never got to use an Amiga. :-(

[triggur.livejournal.com]

You wouldn't know what to do with a girl if one were delivered naked with an instruction manual!

[triggur.livejournal.com]

Or even [wo]MAN PAGES!

[giza.livejournal.com]

gawk; chat; look; nice; date; wine; grep; touch; play; unzip; strip; touch; expand; screen; finger; screen; latex; tangle; mount; fsck; more; yes; yes; yes; yes; screen; yes; yes; yes; more; yes; yes; umount; sleep (http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=425122&cid=22130714)

[mgucciard.livejournal.com]

now THAT is awesome - Bravo!

[rigelkitty.livejournal.com]

I might be offended, if I hadn't been home in NY visiting my parents last week, using their new Mac, and, after crashing its apps four times in one evening (as is my experience with every Mac I've ever touched), giving it up to use their 10+ year old Win98 PC, which BTW never crashed.

So maybe they do have more time for their girlfriends because their computers don't work.

[giza.livejournal.com]

How in the hell did you manage to cause 4 crashes in one evening?

I don't think I've had 4 crashes ever...

[rigelkitty.livejournal.com]

I simply cannot use a Mac without crashing something. Often it's the browser that can't handle a web page and just collapses with a useless error message.

I took Safari down twice, Firefox down once, and had to reboot it after a new driver install failed to take.

[triggur.livejournal.com]

I actually -bought- one and have had much the same experience.

The UI is generally sort of half-baked in ways that even cursory QA would immediately highlight and the UI doesn't provide a lot of the simple "oh hey and we made this more convenient for you too" sort of things Windows users take for granted.

Also, applications in general do not, in fact "Just Run" as Mac users claim when comparing Mac to PC. (Curiously, when I report application or full OS crashes, Mac users typically say either a) that's doesn't sound likely, it must be your hardware (which is a little odd because the same ones will often claim that never happens either), or b) that's because you're using third party software and not JUST Apple products (which is a little strange too, since "pure" Apple products like Final Cut, iCal, iPhoto, and the entire operating system itself crash on me regularly).

I'm not saying it's all bad, because it's not... but it's certainly not the trouble-free "The Mac Just Works" utopia the evangelists claim it is, either. :)

[blackfeather.livejournal.com]

This was also my experience when using a Mac at my last job. It was a Mac shop, so I had to get one for it. It was as unstable as Vista ... at least 3 times in one week, it couldn't handle task switching (from a browser to a shell window); the whole system froze when task switching, and had to be cold booted. This was on a 2 GB MacBook. It was about as stable as a 1GB dual-core Vista laptop.

(I was developing with Ruby on Rails, my own compiled version of Ruby, and Rails 1.2.3 & 1.2.5 later).

I go for *nix whenever possible. Sure, the OS/X's bash shell is better than cygwin .. but why not FreeBSD or Linux (or OpenBSD or NetBSD)?

After my interview tomorrow, I am going to be backing up the Vista box and putting Ubuntu on it, likely (I will first try out any FreeBSD LiveCDs I can find and if the wireless networking drivers work fine [no ndiswrapper, please]) I might use that. I know the Ubuntu ones work.

[davinwarter.livejournal.com]

Do they actually update their software? I know mine don't. Annoys the heck out of me...especially when they want to update just iTunes. Ah well...tis the burden of the deskside support geek.

[girtygrin.livejournal.com]

I realize they have gotten better but all my Performa 6220 did was crash.

[patchoblack.livejournal.com]

Wow, it took a few hours, Giza! Of course, this was just sort flame-baiting.

[giza.livejournal.com]

And that's different from an hourglass on Windows how?

I use FireFox both at home and at work. When it freezes up on some stupid Javascript, I'll the wheel on my Mac and an hourglass on my PC at work. Same thing.

[antimon.livejournal.com]

actually Vista uses a wheel now to :)

[boixboi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but nobody uses Vista.

[eddiddiums.livejournal.com]

Redmond copied that too?! Damn they need to get some new designers.

[antimon.livejournal.com]

i smirked

[rassah.livejournal.com]

And yet, I have found the furry fandom through an MMOPRG, and have found the boyfriend I have been with for 8 years through my previous boyfriend, whom I have also found on an MMORPG. The claim doesn't match my nonIlife.

[kitsunefoxman.livejournal.com]

Your my hero ;.;

[sidepocket-pro.livejournal.com]

Uh, this is false. Why? It is impossible for Mac people to shag PC users neglected girls when the entire Mac user base are homosexuals.

So in short, girls, don't fuck a guy that knows code. Yes, even the Konami code.

[lockemaison.livejournal.com]

I used to love using macs in art school. I liked them way more than PCs.

But for me, and for everyone else I know, either I get a mac or get a cheap PC that can do roughly the same thing (albeit more clunkishly and less stylishly) and the option to do anything that doesn't offer mac support. I'd just as soon make a comic with a guy not having any money to take a girl out after buying a mac. I mean, if I could afford it, hell yeah I'd buy a mac, but I'd also keep an updated PC.

And right now I'm off to play my playstation 2, because frankly I don't play PC games often anyway. But what I do play ain't on the mac. Half life 2? Portal? I'm not wasting my life on an MMO, though, that's for sure. I can *stop* playing my playstation.

[rexxwolfe.livejournal.com]

Nice bait there Giza.. ;)

[eddiddiums.livejournal.com]

*uses his MacBook to block all the hateful comments*

[bushrat.livejournal.com]

One of the primary reasons I own a modern PC is to play whatever game I wish. I am also Gay, so what was the point here again?