Comments on: The Apple Tax – (It\’s Hidden!)

By: EuroUSA

EuroUSA — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:19:35 +0000

I love PCs. I became a PC tech, all self-taught as a pure matter of survival and I became quite proficient at it too. I live in a country and region where English is not the main language by any stretch of the imagination. When I had PC problems, I had to literally take out a day to travel by train and underground getting there and back and then trying to explain to a tech what the problem could be. Almost impossible for the average PC user like myself, how many times does one use tech terms in one’s daily life and then have to relearn them in a foreign language each time the PC failed? Which got to be all too often.

Via the internet and books I learned how to fix my PC. I got so proficient that I soon got known around the village and region for my new found talent. It soon became a second hobby and if I charged anything it was not monetary and was paid in gifts like fresh farm eggs, cheese, a bottle of wine or a free round at the local pub. I got so good, I even built my own dream-machine PC to my own needs and specs by ordering and buying parts abroad on visits to family in the US.

Then about 3 years ago I bought an Apple and I am yet to have one single simple problem with it. It’s a great machine for my line of work.

But that’s not to say that I stopped fixing PCs. Are you kidding? I have a wine cellar that you would probably kill for. I love PCs.

By: pheonyx74

pheonyx74 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:32:09 +0000

@Paul_Is_Drunk
You obviously don’t know people who THINK they are hackers with no true talent for it.

By: Paul_Is_Drunk

Paul_Is_Drunk — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:46:08 +0000

@vandal:
You’re using the “my friend broke his computer in one day” story Mac lovers use. I used to repair computers, and I HAVE NEVER COME ACROSS THIS.

*What’s your friend’s name?
*How do you know him?
*Is he the same guy that your sister’s friend’s uncle knew who microwaved a Chihuahua?

What you actually said:
“My old roomate had an alienware, and he would always ask for my laptop to write his papers on.”

O_o?

So he spent $2,000+ on a custom computer (which he could have built himself for half) and he didn’t have Microsoft Word, so he wanted to use a Microsoft product on a laptop keyboard?

I rarely say this outright, because I like to give the benefit of the doubt, but your full of shit. Stop lying. I’m all for arguing/debating actual points, but why not just claim Jesus appeared to you in a burrito and said Macs were better?

By: AlecDalek

AlecDalek — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:58:35 +0000

Mac User: Thanks you steve gobs for charging 3 times as much for the same god damn hardware. I love the taste of your cum. tODAY I am somebody! I am gobs ass whore. Yay!

By: vandal

vandal — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:58:15 +0000

1 more thing, all these people that are SO worried about .000000001% performance difference I don’t understand you. .0000000000000001% performance means nothing i dont care if your pc plays a video game at 88 fps instead of my 87, The difference is so minute that i would rather have a real operating system that allows me to do many more things. And not everyone is a computer genius, so why windows doesnt come out with a dummy proof computer for noobs is astounding, my friend bought a computer 2 months ago and within 2 days its unusable, granted he only spent 600$ and he is an avid porn addict, stlll thats 600$ down the drain, all my money i spent on the mac was well worth is, i would have spent more on my mAC ITS WORTH IT.

By: AlecDalek

AlecDalek — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:54:22 +0000

Mac User: oh my sweet fuck’m god that dick feels so good in my ass! Thank you steve gobs! Take all my money! Shove it up your ass!

By: vandal

vandal — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:53:57 +0000

lol I built my first 3 computers as a kid(pricewatch.com) and the one my parents currently use and my sister at college. I was scared to buymy first mac 2 years ago, but I’ve never looked back. It never fails I spent 2400 on it, but get this, after two years my computer is still worth 1900$!!! buying a mac is like buying a nice car, it holds its value. I can trade it in spend 700$ and get a brand new mac. I used to be a PC fanboy gogo counter strike and shit. But now i actually use my mac to do WORK on and for actually productivity, i have still yet to find a pc that matches up. My old roomate had an alienware, and he would always ask for my laptop to write his papers on. I’m not hating on computer savvy people who know how to work around PC issues, but what i dont get is hating on macs just because anymore. IF you hate on macs its because you have never used one. As a web programmer I would never go back.

By: AlecDalek

AlecDalek — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:52:16 +0000

Mac user using Windows:
Oh my God! I am in pain, I had to click the mouse TWICE! Fuck’n Jesus what am I going to do, I’m crippled, damn my styrofoam bones. Damn you sweet Jesus and your kinetics!

By: pheonyx74

pheonyx74 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:20:37 +0000

I didn’t say he wasn’t a dumb**s. Just that the stability of Mac by far surpasses PC.

By: Paul_Is_Drunk

Paul_Is_Drunk — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:45:22 +0000

@pheonyx74: I hate to tell you this, but your friend Andy is an idiot. (These are also the stories Mac users like to lie about and make up, but I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and not calling you a liar). Just because you have to give a child safety scissors doesn't mean safety scissors are better than regular scissors. Now, charge more for those safety scissors... @pheonyx74: And to save a lot of money.