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Review of 'MacHeads' Documentary
An anonymous reader writes "Just prior to its premiere at MacWorld later this week, CNet has a review of MacHeads, the new documentary film covering the obsessive world of Apple fanboyism. MacHeads features commentary from original Apple employees, the self-confessed Apple-obsessed and girls who claim they'll never sleep with Windows users. Summed up by CNet: 'MacHeads is a superb film that will give Apple haters a few cheap laughs, and Apple fans a few cheap thrills. But it'll entertain both equally, while educating everybody else.'"
I used to think Apple just equated to overpriced junk. Played around with a Mac Book Pro in the store and was impressed with design (Yes... Computers, ESPECIALLY laptops are more than just a processor, RAM, and a hard drive). I picked one up on refurb. I had long since converted to Linux for everything except the occasional game (like one every year or two) and this is what I have learned.
The OS does indeed make a huge difference. PC users mock Mac users for their "fanboy" stuff, but it is because PC users don't understand what it is like to have a computer that is actually nice to use. PC users will use their frame of reference of their experience with computers and think Mac users are just babbling nonsense. They go off on things like "Mac is an Intel PC now" and write it off as that.
You are 100% right. With the exception of the occasional MS zealot (that frequently has a rather weak or warped understanding of computing anyways) I have never met anyone that enjoyed Windows. At best they "like" Windows because of the games, which has nothing to do with Windows itself. People pretty much loathe Windows itself universally.
Linux users are a different variety. It appeals to the power user that likes to tinker. Desktop linux is definitely coming a long way, but it does not have the same polished UI that OS X has. There is certainly way more freedom under the hood, but that appeals to a relatively small group. Linux users tend to enjoy their linux desktops because they like to tinker. Distros tend to get chosen based on how much you must tinker to get everything working the way you want.
This leaves OS X. OS X has that nice unix underbelly these days so power users can get things like fink and macports and still have Aqua with their X11 stuff and so on and so forth. I keep hearing Windows users badmouth linux with "Windows just works" and after using OS X for about a year I do not think it means what they think it means. I work with computers... I don't want to have to go home and work on my damned computer. OS X has an interesting way of making unixy things terribly simple. Installing software...you click on the dmg file, drag the app to Applications, done. At the lower level, you just mounted a disk image, copied a foo.app folder that has a file in it that tells OS X to display it as a pretty icon instead of a folder, and your application is "installed". No silly registry BS, no complicated digging and wondering where the hell it put your files, etc. It is a joy to use it as a generic use computer. That is why Mac users advocate for Mac so much...it makes computers nice to use rather than a constant battle of bullshit like Windows.
That said I think OS X servers are kinda goofy, the major appeal to Apple is their nice hardware, superior design, and nice UI... In the server market where the box stays in a rack all day it pretty much kills any superior hardware/design stuff since you never see it, and the fancy UI on a server is a waste I think. All my servers that I am not forced to use Windows on are all linux. Linux is a joy to use as a server.
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.
"The parent post is another cheap 'find something that mocks your subculture and flame it' post that will pander to Apple-hater-haters, and bore or irritate Apple-fan-haters. It will broaden the minds of none, and pass unnoticed by everyone else."
It will also be moderated as Insightful instead of Flamebait and Troll by Apple-hater-haters, just as this post will be moderated Troll instead of Funny and Insightful by those same Apple-hater-haters.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
or come on...
i don't know about intelligent but if you're trying to suggest that apple/mac users are as technically competent and adept (on the whole) as other computer users then you're just kidding yourself.
That explains why the first season sucked.
"I guess the moral of the story is, don't paint your airship with rocket fuel." -- Addison Bain