Why do I defend Macs?

I’ve been questioned as to why I defend Macs so zealously.

Time for an explanation, methinks.

Let’s get one thing out of the way. I have a PC at home. I do use it occasionally. I place myself on the middle of the debate, and as I said before, morons who don’t take the time to evaluate their platform and give said platform a bad rep because of their own ignorance is unfair and extremely stupid.

This guy I just burned said something along the lines of “You must buy a Mac.com email address to use Mac Mail.” That’s EXACTLY what I’m getting at. Any Mac user and Windows user who has spent a bit of time with a Mac knows that you can use Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, among others with Mac Mail. It’s his own fault for not looking around. Yes, having a mac.com email address makes things easier, it’s not required.

Going to the first article, around the beginning, he calls his Mac a boat anchor, and then Safari a “second-rate” browser, because he cannot use flash. Well, I tested www.muse.mu for this claim.

Oh…what’s that…something’s calling.

It’s your ignorance.

This guy once again made no effort whatsoever to use google to search for the safari plug-in for flash. Once again, not the Mac’s fault, but his own.

While I do place myself in the middle of debates, just because I use a Mac means I’m a fanatic to others, even though I own a PC and have plans to run XP on my MacBook.

And if there’s anything I hate more, it’s stereotype.

When some person makes a stupid move like this guy did, and says that Macs suck all because he never made an effort to learn, is not right. I know kids who learned Macs easily. Adults, even.

What he did is akin to playing a minute of a game and claiming it sucks, or dying in a game and saying it sucks. Or grading an entire CD on the first track.