About ten or 15 yrs ago there was an excellent article by Italo Calvino in either Harper's or The Atlantic in which he compared the Mac vs. Windows thing to religion. He made a case for the Mac side as Catholic and the Windows side as Protestant.
Aside from the fact that I'm a card-carrying atheist and it smarted a tiny bit being thought of as Catholic, it was a beautiful article.
Anyway, it does remind one of fundamentalism. Tiresome, isn't it?
If you think about what a laptop has to endure in comparison to a desktop computer, it seems miraculous that they hold up as well as they do. It's much more likely that the little things that you tug on every day will wear out or break - I've had the AC adapter separate from the motherboard on two different PowerBooks (a 3400 and a G3 Wallstreet) which had to be replaced and that can't have been cheap. (I worked for Apple at the time so I don't know.)
Now I've got an iBook and Applecare.
I wouldn't buy any laptop without an extended warranty.
I realize this won't be perceived as friendly, but I so looked forward to a really meaty discussion over this article and this just isn't.
Just because you can write code that works does not entitle you to call yourself an artist or a scientist.
If you strive to write elegant code, which embodies the simplest, shortest, most efficient means to an end, then you may proceed to the debate.
In the spirit of constructive criticism, there's a really excellent guide to presenting effective arguments here:
http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/
[Oh, I already feel stupid for not being able to figure out how to correctly post the link, so you needn't point that out. I'm off to pursue enlightenment now.]
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Actually the original Whole Foods was in Austin...
Wear a condom.
About ten or 15 yrs ago there was an excellent article by Italo Calvino in either Harper's or The Atlantic in which he compared the Mac vs. Windows thing to religion. He made a case for the Mac side as Catholic and the Windows side as Protestant. Aside from the fact that I'm a card-carrying atheist and it smarted a tiny bit being thought of as Catholic, it was a beautiful article. Anyway, it does remind one of fundamentalism. Tiresome, isn't it?
If you think about what a laptop has to endure in comparison to a desktop computer, it seems miraculous that they hold up as well as they do. It's much more likely that the little things that you tug on every day will wear out or break - I've had the AC adapter separate from the motherboard on two different PowerBooks (a 3400 and a G3 Wallstreet) which had to be replaced and that can't have been cheap. (I worked for Apple at the time so I don't know.) Now I've got an iBook and Applecare. I wouldn't buy any laptop without an extended warranty.
Well, I gloated because I want nothing to diminish Apple's success.
Greedy opportunists?
I realize this won't be perceived as friendly, but I so looked forward to a really meaty discussion over this article and this just isn't.
Just because you can write code that works does not entitle you to call yourself an artist or a scientist.
If you strive to write elegant code, which embodies the simplest, shortest, most efficient means to an end, then you may proceed to the debate.
In the spirit of constructive criticism, there's a really excellent guide to presenting effective arguments here:
http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/
[Oh, I already feel stupid for not being able to figure out how to correctly post the link, so you needn't point that out. I'm off to pursue enlightenment now.]