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Kim Jong-Un Found To Be Mac User
jones_supa writes: He might hate the United States, but he sure digs those designed-in-California computers. You probably wouldn't take Kim Jong-un as a Mac user. Usually, in photos of him checking out military computers, we see the North Korean dictator in front of a PC with a Dell monitor. However, a handful of photos of the supreme leader at his own desk show him with Macs, leading to the assumption that while the military may use PCs, his personal preference is Mac. Reuters correspondent James Pearson, who covers both Koreas, tweeted out a fresh image of little Kim using a MacBook Pro inside an aircraft. There are other images, including a 2013 image of Kim Jong-un at his desk with an iMac. That same year, the South Korean newspaper Chosun published a photo from North Korean Central News Agency, which features an Apple iMac. This might also explain why the country's home-grown Linux distribution Red Star imitates OS X.
I had no idea this was interesting... and still don't.
Well, I guess if you're a Windows user, you might feel just a little more dejected.
Otherwise, it's already been clear that anyone who gives a sh!t about hardware quality, who hates antivirus software and wants to avoid software exploits is going to use a Mac.
It used to be an issue of better software, especially with regards to video editing. Not so much anymore, now that Apple really jumped the shark with Final Cut. Now all they have going for them is the really nice screens, but PCs are catching up there too. The Mac Pro also used to be a good dual-CPU workstation with some expandability, but with the new trashcan-style ones are single-CPU and have poor cooling to the point of throttling sometimes.
Yea, no way that could go wrong says the guy who clearly doesn't live in Seoul, South Korea with their family and all their assets within marching distance from over a million North Korean soldiers.
The force that blew the Big Bang continues to accelerate.