Comments on: If you don’t own a Mac, don’t talk to me

By: beautyscientist

beautyscientist — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:20:50 +0000

Very comical article. Thanks for sharing it. Of course the only problem with elitism is not enough people get involved with it.

By: yusbarrett

yusbarrett — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:54:03 +0000

It took Mac a “Think different” slogan to make all the douchebags who beg to look different to buy a mac.

Now seriously, Claris works never was a match for Office, now mac has Office, the mac processor went bankrupt and they had to change to PC’s intel processors, all mac web browsers died and now even explorer has a mac version, mac had no messenger (it had icq, but icq sucked so bad) until microsoft made msn, and dont make me start with running videogames on mac. Linux users are actually PC users…. and if you dare say mac is better than linux then i guess you are the person not worth talking to…. honestly.

Ohh by the way, If applications that do not run in mac are not worth using then… why bother creating Parallels or VMWare if that statement is true? are videogames not worth using?

By: stanx

stanx — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:42:41 +0000

Good column Logan! Don’t listen to those guys above. They’re what Scott Kelby used to label as “PC weenies”. So I expect to read more “kick PC weenie butt” words from you. Remember that PC weenies try to masquerade as genuine MAC users everyday but eventually they show their true colors.

By: Turbinedivinity

Turbinedivinity — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:53:23 +0000

heehee, great column. Personally, I’ll be first in line to buy a new Mac (I was once a true believer from the beige Powermac days with an 8600/150) when it becomes a respectable gaming platform. I’m not buying any computer that costs two thousand dollars and can’t run Half Life 2 native. It’d be like buying a new BMW that doesn’t turn left!

By: virgored

virgored — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:34:15 +0000

Wow. If you are basing the value of your intelligence on a purchase, not only are you “douchebag [and]… a narcissist elitist” but also materialistic. Might I point out that in addition to the error pointed out above, you also have several grammatical errors and a few dangling participles. If this is the Mac-style of intelligence, I’ll remain a PC user, thanks.

I prefer to express my intelligence in conversation, interaction, experience and even test scores over my preferred brand of computer… or my preferred brand of anything, really.

By: briansechrest

briansechrest — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:03:29 +0000

Your article started out like “something I’d really want to read” and quickly deteriorated. Maybe you’re just being facetious and the joke is over my head?

I’m a recent MacBook Pro convert myself, having come from a similarly-specced ThinkPad before this and a 17-inch mammoth-sized Dell Inspiron before that. Your friend Joe sounds like he’s a little clueless, but you yourself sound like your only justification for dropping an extra $500-1000 on a laptop is “lololol macz ruel M$ droolz” and that doesn’t instill a desire within me to start reading your column on the regular.

We still live in a Windows world, and one of the biggest reasons that the Intel-based Macs available for sale today *are* worth their price premium is that you can still grab all the Windows functionality you do or don’t need in addition to the beauty/elegance/simplicity/turtle-necked-douchebaggery of MacOS. Why didn’t you just fire open VMware Fusion or Parallels and show him how his Windows software would have run on a Mac completely hassle-free? That’s pretty much the perfect stepping stone to show a PC user what they’ve been missing.

I’m thrilled to finally have unfettered access to the Mac software that’s had me drooling for awhile (Adium, TextMate, and Quicksilver make my heart race!), but cutting yourself off from the rest of the world — even if their OS does kinda suck — is pretty blatant ignorance. To be incapable of understanding how someone just wants their software to work and doesn’t really care about trying a new OS and a bunch of awesome software that many Windows-based substitutes exist for is the real definition of ignorance, to me.

Again, I apologize if this whole thing was a prankapples joke article and I just didn’t catch it — but if you’re serious, you’re ridiculous.

By: nicangeli

nicangeli — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:27:39 +0000

“par none”

Only a **** using a mac would make such a basic mistake. It’s bar none my friend.