During the last UGS gathering Tay was making a lot of noise about whether to buy a laptop or an iBook. It was perhaps ironic that he used Kenny's laptop, of all things a machine running Windows, to browse about Apple's store, admiring the curves and the pale pastels that make up the hot plastic body of his beloved.
Now why does that sound so wrong?
The love of all things Apple may seem to some as arcane as the love of Badminton, Judo or Korean Dramas. Let me attempt to explain it to you.
Top 10 reasons geeks guys love anything remotely Apple.
- Apple makes sexy in computers possible. They are flat where we want them to be flat, and curved where we want them to be curved. Our iPods use hard disk drives because they are hard ... and they vibrate when you scroll for a song. Ever so gently, gently, gently ....
- Apple products can do no wrong. You are absolutely stupid if you think Apple earbuds are lousier than, say, Griffin. Our earbuds are glisteningly white, and sharing earwax with your girlfriend over a song is a lot cooler than squeezing a DRM encoded 3 plays only tune over Zune's fupped wireless connection (wat a mouthful).
- Apple has the iPhone. It does EVERYTHING.
- The Apple logo is beautifully minimalist. Microsoft's logo is microsoft (boh-ring). Linux's Penguins are fat.
- Steve Jobs is so influential fans cried and worried when he was found to have cancer in his nether regions. (okay, it was the pancreas, but whatever).
- Their computers are packaged in orgami boxes. Microsoft's products, on the other hand, come in such a wide range of varieties users are prompted to come up with this:
- Apple produces such wow inducing products, bringing users to places we never expect to go - first the iPod, then the iPod Mini, the iPod shuffle, the Apple TV, the iPhone, then we'll probably get the iBicycle, the iMicrowave Oven/iHDTV and the iHousecleaning iRobot (complete with real skin).
- C'mon - almost all (hip) advertisements, professional web designers, authors, actors, hip movies, fashion designers, cartoon characters, world leaders, my dog, Osama Bin Laden, George Bush ... sport an Apple product. Microsoft even features a Mac in one of its advertisements (logo airbrushed, of course).
- There are no viruses for Mac, since the limited number of Mac users make it entirely useless for crackers to look for security holes. If you wish, you can always say the Adam and Eve virus took a bite out of your Apple computer.
- Microsoft is the borg. The copycat of all copycats. You know Microsoft has won when you see a cute multicoloured worm sticking out of your minimalist Apple logo.
Wait - part of my dare with Sam was to include one last photo, but since it's running late (and i can't get Windows Live Writer to sync with Blogger - see! Another Microsoft fault!) i'll just put up a picture of two NSers in a tangle. Here's Danny, who doesn't care what computer he uses, and Tay, who
Do you feel the love yet?
14 comments:
So obviously advertising for Apple. Heh.
Btw, typo spotted: Their computers are packaged in orgami boxes
Orgami.. Thinking too much of a word that starts with orga.. perhaps? Haha. Just kidding.
And nice pic, you take such good candid shots. Brilliant.
hmm.. tay insisted me to buy an Apple Laptop than any other brands. I still prefer getting a cheaper one. Apple specs can't compare to the one by other companies despite at same price.
I'm getting one Acer :D
OSX isn't the most productive operating system around :S
Not everything that I need can run on a Mac..
@Tze Lun, not everything you need can run on OSX, but everything you need CAN run on a Mac. ;P Bootcamp, remember? Apple is making it hard for us windows lovers not to switch.
@Kenny, yeah, apple rocks. Just that they're more expensive. But they look SO COOL!
@ Wen Qi, Hrmmph. SMO anyone?
Will correct that typo. You need to post 3 times a week.
>.<
Hahaha...Mac. Before this...Mac to me was the full version of McDonalds.
=)
@Ced, getting a Mac to run Windows is like getting the iPhone to make phone calls and send text messages. It's plain overkill >.<
Oh wait! I know a better one. Using php to create a random name generator!
Or, or, setting up a Textdrive account with MediaTemple's servers to use ruby to write a widget that displays your local time!
I get your point. Hehe. =)
Haha.. you're obviously very engrossed in coding...
Apple is overrated.
The Mac, Macbook, iMac and Mac Pro is overpriced. 4k for a 13" Macbook with half the specs of say a Satellite M100? Seriously...
The white sheen fades to yellow in a year. Ive seen my Physic's teacher's one... what a sad sight.
The fact that Mac has no viruses is because there is a 'limited number' of Mac users. I wonder why ler? Hints: Overpriced
Bootcamp has flaws. For example, Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars could not work on my friends Macbook. *dies* Also, neither could Dawn of War:Dark Crusade. Gamers kill for lesser reasons...
I cant figure out for the life of me how to Copy and Paste on a Macbook. WHERE IS THE RIGHT CLICK BUTTON?! People BUY a Mac and cant figure out where is Excell and Words. Go figure...
You cant compare iPod with Zune. Zune sucks, thats a fact, the only thing cool about it is the double layer colour (green brown, so on). About iPod, WHO HAS 80 gigs of songs anyway?
But it looks cool la, to see someone with iPod earbuds sticking in his ears. Makes u go wow.
Oh yeah.
(Dont insult Linux. We have to respect open source users. Not exactly easy ler...Hehe)
Who has 80 gigs of songs. *thinks for a moment*
*points at Jylene*
XD
What the Mac does, and does well, is the sheer ease of use OSX offers. So maybe when it comes to games a Mac sucks, but there is a whole ton of (novel and script) writing and video editing and web development software that I can't get for the PC. They're all aimed for the Mac since professionals write their scripts/novels on Macs (spiderman 3 was written on a Mac, if you're wondering). It makes me really ... grr.
PS: Funny ... come to think of it I was just about to put up something on Linux. ;P Lalalala
"Dont insult Linux. We have to respect open source users. Not exactly easy ler...Hehe"
I don't get why you respect Linux users just because they are "open source users". Does that mean Windows (commercial software) users will get less respect from you as well? Or perhaps because you use Windows therefore you attempt to shift the focus to Mac (commercial software) users instead?
Bootcamp was made to 'facilitate' the use of other OSes on the Mac. If you want to have perfectly-working copy of Windows, why buy Mac in a first place?
Perhaps if you give a PC to a long-time Mac user, they'll go WHY IS THERE A RIGHT CLICK BUTTON?! You're judging Mac's functionality based on Windows. Mac isn't Windows.
Bill Gates said computers will never need more than 640KB of memory when he first founded Microsoft. WHO NEEDS 640KB of memory anyway?
Oh yeah, I love my Windows. But I don't hate Macs :)
Who said i disrespect Windows users, OSX users or Linux users?
I was merely pointing out that Mac was overpriced. Have you used Linux before? I have not, and from what people say, its definitely harder than using a Windows or Mac.
"If you want to have perfectly-working copy of Windows, why buy Mac in a first place?" Exactly my point when I say people cant figure out where the Words and Excell are on a Mac. Thanks.
Bill Gates cant read the future.
If you read my comment properly I never said I hate Macs.
Why do I feel the need to do this?? OK LAH Mac is very good. sigh
(This is what you get when you have the runner up of the debate competition, the guru in debating and the technology master all in one comment section)
*runs away*
As much as I'd like this to continue, I'm not into debates :P
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