Ok oh judgement passer... Your boy slams PC people as people with their heads up windows ass... and I make a comment about mac fanbois and I am the one walking in with condescension and a sense of entitlement. I'm pretty sure we were already there before I even began typing. If you're a cheerleader that's fine. I'd get my friend's back too, but let's be real here... If I am what you said then your friend shares my title. Get it?
first of all, i'm no one's "boy".. second Jeff was right, period; i made a very focused slam against highly biased PC users like YOU, that love to make blanket claims about how those that use macs are all "fanbois" and are somehow victims of marketing, a typical anti-mac line of rhetoric which reeked of "side-taking". conversely, before you popped in i had been saying that it didn't matter and was an apples and oranges argument essentially.
no, you made an ass of YOURself buddy.. period... and multiple people here caught it... you were trolling... by your own admission you were
looking for some boredom relief, and so you presented yourself as a computer repair guru that knows what everyone's experiences
really are, and you also insinuated knowledge of why mac users choose the platform to start with... a spurious claim if there ever was one. that was the impression you made, and the one that several other posters took away from it, most of whom i normally never talk to and am certainly not the "boy" of.
over and over again you made your little condescending "points"... most of them having something to do with "boys / bois"... (lol, sorry, cheap shot
)... and went on about how you are in a better position to know this, that, or the other because of your job.... completely ignoring the fact that the person you're laying this shit on has been using both Macs and PCs for about 15 years, and has quite a different experience. no, i must be just the luckiest guy ever, by your lights. never-mind that i personally know and/or am friends with and/or work with numerous other working engineers that use macs as well whose experiences align with my own, and not with what you insist is true... yeah, all those years of combined experience mean nothing compared to your repair shop stint... a place where an unquantified demographic bring their broken/malfunctioning computers... surprise, surprise.
oh, and what do i do to keep my motherboard & drives from dying that the average consumer user doesn't? i don't know that i do any
one particular thing to that end, but i certainly make sure i don't slam the fan vent ports against a wall, i keep the computer in a well ventilated, cool room, out of the path of sunlight, i don't smoke or place beverages any where near it, and i open it up and clean any dust out every so often, always while properly grounded to avoid static charges... for drives and such i run disk utilities and make sure i handle them properly etc... your average consumer user does none of the above, though i daresay most everyone on this forum does... but hey, do go ahead and tell me all your smart-pants reasons why none of that works so i can summarily dismiss them, based on MY experience. and yes, some components will eventually die anyway, especially drives... which i s why a buy the extended warranties and keep double redundant back-ups, two more things your average consumer does
not do. and why the hell would you ask such an easily, and predictably, answerable question in such a smarmy way in the first place? it begs an equally glib return question... are
you thick?, or do you just think
i am?
bottom line, you popped up in here made a specious comment about mac-users being marketing victims and fanboys, completely discounting an entire generation of professionals in many fields that use macs because they were the best tool for the job; from beating Windows PCs to the punch in functionality in certain fields (particularly media related), usually by
years, via specialized software packages and related hardware integrations, to maintaining that gap via greater stability of the OS and reliability of hardware (that may not be a fact of your life in the repair shop, but it is of mine and many like me that have been using computers in the trenches of the media trades for years... so tough luck on that one... turns out it's a
very debatable point after all), and when i called you on it you tried to flip it , but you got called out by someone else for trying to do
that too... so then you just insinuate that person is "in cahoots" with me somehow... dude,
you are chasing your tail on the weak side of a lame argument. spin and spit your repair-shop rhetoric and anti-"cult of mac" counter-dogma all you want. it will be to no avail, because i'm just not having the experience you insist is true, nor is anyone else i know.
no, enough with your "i'm a computer fixerer-upperer" know-it-all bullshit, dude... yeah, i crack wise and it can come off harsh to people like you that don't know me sometimes... but you win the prize for "Condescending Douchebag of the Thread". quit while you're ahead.
