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Mac People

So I gotta vent about something.

I love the Mac. It's how I make my living, I use it for recreation, I really buy into the whole "digital lifestyle" business. Don't own a PC. Yet. But I hate being identified as "a Mac guy." I mean, I am, but i don't wear it on my sleeve. And it's not a religion to me.

"We're Mac people," my wife told my son's computer teacher at an open house tonight. It's like announcing that you're a Moonie. I watched his eyes glaze over as he started jabbering about how Macs were proprietary ever since "OS 5" and are too expensive. And I had to use every ounce of self control to avoid bludgeoning him into submission with the closest PC box as I started shrieking about Darwin, Unix and Open Source.

Left to my own devices, I wouldn't have said a word. But my hand was tipped, see.

Posted by flargh on September 23, 2004 08:32 PM |

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Sometimes in those situations you just want to pull out your business card, show it to the guy, and say, "Dude, I know more about this topic than you do."

I've never done it, being the modest type, but my wife has encouraged it a couple times ;-)

Posted by: Dan Frakes | September 23, 2004 09:44 PM

Yeah, a Mac may be comparatively expensive, but I can afford one with all the money it saves me. ;)

Posted by: FC | September 23, 2004 11:47 PM

All air traffic in LA area without radio for 3 hours. Cause: a MS Windows-based system requires a monthly reboot and someone forgot to reboot the machine. The Windows systems is a replacement for an old Unix one.

http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39124122,00.htm

I guess that's why the US Navy uses a Mac in their new nuclear sub.

Posted by: FC | September 24, 2004 01:24 PM

Actually, I do wear Mac tshirts about half the time, at least in the warmer months. And there's the iPod I don't leave home without, even if I don't use it much of the time. Plus the Panther dogtags I wear for special Mac events..

I don't run across that much anti-Mac bigotry anymore, though I'm sure unemployment helps me avoid them some. ;-)

Posted by: Alphax | September 25, 2004 11:46 PM