I recently went to the Apple store in the Trafford Centre in order to get some more RAM put in my Macbook. Being a recent convert I have only ever been in one Apple store, and that was on our recent trip to Chicago. The assistants back then seemed pretty busy and on the whole ignored me. This time however the shop was virtually empty and pretty soon the entire staff were circling round me like sharks sensing blood.
I know that this analogy will only mean anything to a select few (namely geeky Englishmen who spent their youth in stuffy attics painting little metal men - Paul, I’m looking at you here), but the shop assistants at the Apple store were like slightly hipper versions of shop assistants at Games Workshop stores. They had that same maniacal enthusiasm and evangelical fervor, the same eagerness to please and unsettling overuse of prolonged eye contact. Fortunately they didn’t share the lack of personal hygiene and the shop wasn’t full of 12 year olds arguing about line-of-sight rules.
It is unfair of me to complain really. The assistants were genuinely helpful and they even fitted my RAM for free (although I did get a reproachful lecture about the amount of tiny bits of glitter that were clogging up the machine). I also bought a lead to connect my old PC monitor to the Macbook, so now I am able to have two screens on at the same time and move the mouse between them. Which is COOL!
So, anyway, here are my top ten reasons why my Mac is better than my PC.
- My Mac works, my PC doesn’t.
- I am depriving multi billionaire businessman Bill Gates of my hard earned money by giving it to multi billionaire businessman Steve Jobs instead.
- My Mac has not yet reduced me to tears because it doesn’t work.
- With my Macbook I can blog from the toilet (just like my hero).
- My Macbook has more uses than as a £1000 stool which Amy can stand on to reach high shelves.
- I’m not tempted to spend a fortune on cool exciting games, because there aren’t any cool exciting games.
- My Mac is covered in glitter that Amy spilled all over it. My PC is covered in dust, because it doesn’t work.
- My Mac is white, that means it is a goodie. My PC is black, just like Darth Vader.
- When my friends are sitting in the pub talking about their PCs, I am unable to join in and therefore gain valuable time in which to stare into my pint dejectedly.
- On my Mac I can have two screens on at the same time, and move the mouse between them. Which, as you know, is COOL! (I know you can do this on PCs too, but not my PC you can’t. Because it doesn’t bloody work).
on May 18th, 2007 at 2:00 am
I converted last summer and have loved every minute of it. My only issue at all is that I’ve started to have trouble with my power cord, which is fixable. I think.
on May 18th, 2007 at 4:35 am
Hey we have those same commercials over here, except they’re in English….oh wait. Right. Heh.
I’m also a recent convert. I would add to the list the joys of Comic Life.
on May 18th, 2007 at 4:56 am
Oh man I’ve got to get me a mac. I’d like to have both, PC and then the Mac laptop.
on May 18th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Don’t you miss right-clicking?!!?
on May 18th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
11. You are able to right click on a modern Mac. You can’t right click on my PC. Or left click. Or type anything. Because it doesn’t work.
on May 18th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
When you send my tat, send that poor PC to me as well. It deserves a good home that will take care of it.
on May 18th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Dan, you constantly make me laugh.
I love those PC vs. Mac commercials. They are enough to probably convert me to a Mac when my PC laptop dies, which of course is inevitable. It was interesting to see the Brit version of the caricatures.
on May 19th, 2007 at 12:23 am
You pay the postage Dwayne and you are welcome to it.
Kristina - the two actors in the ad are Mitchell and Webb, a comedy double act who’s star is currently on the rise over here.
on May 19th, 2007 at 4:44 am
My job gave me a Macbook Pro and I LOVE taking the thing out at the local coffer shop. I get all sorts of stares as if they’re saying “what is that futuristic machine of the future..” while they’re all using those ugly PC’s.
Also I think the sheer safety of never getting viruses is a huge plus. My old PC had all sorts of adware/spyware/aliens that invaded.
I swear Bill Gates was watching me…
on May 19th, 2007 at 6:27 am
I’ve been running a Mac at home and a PC at work for nine years now - The Mac is infinitely better. Though you can get a lot of games for the Mac - and if you’ve got a MacBook then you can run XP on it and play Windows games anyway! (Homeworld 2 remains my all-time favourite Mac-port).
Two screens. I recently awarded myself the same set-up as our developers for loads of credible business reasons - Dell the size of a planet, two 17″ flat screens. I feel like Darth Vadar. Though people are starting to avoid my office for some reason.
on May 19th, 2007 at 10:39 am
I must take issue with point number 8 - I don’t know much about Darth Vader (except he was mates with Peter Cushing in the film and therefore must be fabulous) plus I suspect he was made to wear black as part of a lazy shorthand by filmmakers to denote so called ‘bad behaviour’. He probably wasn’t ‘bad’ - just misunderstood, plus didn’t all his henchmen white and the princess woman and the one who ended up going a bit mad in a Silent Bob film?
on May 20th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Two screens, Pahh! Currently sat at work in front my four linked TFT monitors. The only downside is trying to remember where you left the mouse cursor now and again, though come to think of it, I do seem to be losing more and more hair recently…
on May 20th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
It’s funny to read the Mac converts gush like born-again-Christians or new cult members!
I dream of a day when there is only one Operating System and there is no bickering of whose God, I mean OS, is better. As soon as the world gets the Middle East problem solved, we can roll up our sleeves and get the OS problem settled!!
Dan, I would love to take that PC off your hands, but I would need to know what kind of computer (make and model) and how much it would cost to send here.
on Sep 18th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
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