Comments on: CNN pits Mac vs. the whole world

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:54:50 +0000

You people are all idiots because your cost/benefit analysis doesn’t come out the same as mine.
Oh wait, you just asked that no one do that.
My bad.

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:14:49 +0000

Buy me one my Dark Lord of Mac Sith

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:47:34 +0000

give in, luke

By: Adam S

Adam S — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:24:21 +0000

Whether or not the hardware is good, this review was horrible. How can one be so negative about time machine, the first backup software that is seemless and works for all users? How can one complain about Spaces, a feature that is for power users and can VERY EASILY be turned off entirely?

This article suggests the writer and his staff are not very qualified administrators and the tone seems awfully like the goal was to knock Apple down a peg.

By: Nicholas Deleon

Nicholas Deleon — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:57:04 +0000

I agree, Rob. Use whatever you want to help tame the savageness of man. I think Biggs was more annoyed with the unsophisticated tone of the article, like calling e-mail and word processing “business critical” applications, as if you can’t run Office (or Google Docs) on a Mac.

But like I said, people should use whatever they want. It’s their money/time, not mine.

-na

By: Rob M

Rob M — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:08:42 +0000

Geez, the guy really tried a long-term experiment to see how it worked, and gave honest feedback. But since you don’t like his answer, he must be an idiot, right? I personally plunked down close to $2k to buy a Macbook Pro, and I have had numerous problems with it. The lack of software is still an issue for most people, whether you guys want to admit it or not. Plus out of 3 Macbooks that we bought at work, all three had to go back for hardware repairs under warranty. So I am not impressed with Apple’s hardware either.

Why can’t you just admit that it’s not for everyone, and stop calling people idiots if their cost/benefit analysis doesn’t come out the same as yours?

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:35:15 +0000

damn it
i meant CNN, not Cnet
no one reads their stuff either

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:32:51 +0000

Well somebody has to try to offset CGs pro-Mac bias

Cnet is just doing their small part
Nobody reads their stuff anyways

You guys are probably part to blame for me yearning to buy a MacBook in recent months

By: Ron Licata

Ron Licata — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:20:02 +0000

“I and my assistants had terrible problems getting all of our company programs to work properly.”

That says more about the company’s application development team — and his total lack of computer skills — than it does about Apple.