I find this amazing...

[0098386]

It's a bit different here. My friend always hated Apple, only one day he was fed up of his Sony MP3 player (the strange purpley ones). Bought an iPod, few months later and due to his liking of my iMac, he bought an iMac too. Mostly for the quiet running and small form factor.

A month or so after that he got fed up with that and we bought it off him. Now he's back hating Macs again. He hated the idea of an iPhone and always criticises it when I say I'm going to buy one.


Then he tried an iPod Touch.

Thankfully my other friends aren't like that. They're all planning on buying Macs.
My family love using the iMac too but are thrown off a little as they were brought up on Windows.

Not so bad here

Oh, and my old iRony pic http://JimmiLeRock.deviantart.com/art/iRony-15867689

 

[xodonniedarko]

You can tell them every Pixar movie they've ever seen and/or liked was made by 100% Apple computers and software.

 

[ab2650]

You can tell them every Pixar movie they've ever seen and/or liked was made by 100% Apple computers and software.

I think that's a bit of an overstatement. There's no doubt plenty of cross-over, considering who's on the board, but 100%?

 

[SkyBell]

If you're feeling sarcastic:
"...and yet you have iPods..."

Otherwise, what motulist said.'

EDIT: You know, it's funny. I haven't taken flack for being a Mac user in ages. I thought Mac-bashing went out of style a couple years ago.

Heck, I got bashed just tonight.

"Macs suck because they can't play games"

 

[monke]

What do I say in retaliation to people who diss Apple computers? I am sick and tired of people saying Apple sucks when they themselves have an iPod or an iPhone and has never used an Apple computer. You can't judge something if you never used it!

Here's some:
1) How many times have you pressed control-alt-delete?
2) Unfortunately for Mac's, they also run windows.
3) Yes I said they run Windows.
4) You call Solitaire hard-core gaming?
5) You still have Vista? Haven't you heard of XP?
6) Yes the same company that makes the iPod makes the iMac.
7) Yes computer's don't have to be beige.
8) The start button doesn't actually start anything if you've noticed...

Just a couple.

 

[CalBoy]

8) The start button doesn't actually start anything if you've noticed...

By far my favorite of your list

I have a side question for those of you who have seen such great animosity from others; are those same people open to new things, or are they close-minded? Something tells me that they are close-minded in other areas of life, and the Mac vs PC debate is just one of those areas.

 

[Shaduu]

"Really? Because your sister seems to like it."

Oh, I am so using that today.

But to be serious, I just let them have a play on my Mac for a bit and see their faces light up after they get past the lack of a Start menu. I've also converted our IT tech/teacher so we'll see how things go with three Mac users in school.

 

[EvryDayImShufln]

I go to University and I got a mac about a year ago. At the beginning all my friends were saying stuff like: "oh your GayBook" and "that toy" and a bunch of similar insults.

A lot of things shut them up over time. First of all, comparing my friends new laptop to my MBPs brightness, his got completely wrecked, and he payed quite a bit for his too. Mine also has a much better videocard, and runs games in XP much better than his could dream of. Since seeing the light up keyboard, he hasn't made a single comment about macs.

Three of the others kept dissing, until their laptops broke one by one, and through the horrible tech support of toshiba and HP, it took them forever to get fixes (some still haven't gotten their laptops back). At least Apple offers some great and very rapid support.

Then they saw some of Leopard's new features, like spaces and stacks. I'm not even kidding but I haven't heard a single negative thing from ANY of them in a few months now and a couple of them are already saying that their next computer will be a mac.

So I would say, just ignore them and let it play out.

 

[Iscariot]

People wonder how my garden grows to be so tall and bountiful,
I simply state "it's my killer fertilizer that makes the flowers grow".

 

[Big-TDI-Guy]

Just sit on your hands - don't kill anyone - and maybe try to find a slightly smarter group of friends. If one of my friends freaked over what brand of pants I wore - I'd give about the same amount of (@*# that I would over them freaking about my OS. It's your choice - you use what you're comfortable with.

 

[eric55lv]

I just want to say something to them that will shut them up FOREVER!
Or prove to them that Macs are the best. The only problem is, people believe what they want to believe.

your right i have a Mac and iPod and i say Apple rules and many people agree with usually people who have a Mac and some with just iPods bust others say Microsuck rules but guess what Apple product they have a Mac and iPod man people are carzy these days