Dear Apple Fanboys:

[jnshk]

This post is just here for my own reference the next time Apple fanboy starts spouting off about how Macs never crash, never need service, and never ever have any problems at all. Here is some anecdotal evidence and a real-world example that Macs aren't necessarily God's gift to operating systems.

"Sorry about the stupid comic, my main work

Comments

[highfivejunkie]

my mac still has about 75billion less problems than my pc did/does.

but yeah, anything is bound to eff up. it's a freakin electronic device.

[jnshk]

LOL, no doubt. Your PC was aaaaalways fubared. I've generally found that if you remove all the junk that most PC retailers install on the computers and do a clean install of Windows by itself, you get much better results in the long run

[highfivejunkie]

nerd!!

yeah occasionally the iMacs in our j-school computer labs would foul up, but usually it was because someone who didn't know what they were doing did something ridiculous.

The problem I had most often was burning disks. Other than that it was typically smooth.

[jnshk]

Ours would lock up any time you tried to open Quark Xpress or Photoshop, and crashed any time you went to save a document. :-(

[k473]

Didn't it take less time for someone to hack the Mac book than it did the pc equivalent? Maybe I'm remembering wrong.... I don't know, I don't pay that much attention to it. Although I do remember hearing that now that more people have Macs there are more hackers/viruses/etc targeting them.

[jnshk]

I don't know about the MacBook hack thing, but yeah. Generally one reason why there have been less security issues for Macs is that they've been such a minority of computer users for so long that "hackers" had very little incentive to code anything malicious for Macs. Most people used some version of Windows, and especially the computer illiterate who were more prone to foolishly and unwittingly download something bad in the first place. "Oh! Free screensaver! ::click

[k473]

Completely unrelated:
http://www.pxlshots.com/blog/2009/05/100-touching-photos-expressing-loneliness-and-solitude/
Thought you might like some of these.

Reference for my first thought:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/29/AR2008032900961_pf.html

RE: The article about the hacking contest

[jnshk]

"Earlier, Miller said that he chose to hack the Mac because he thought it would be easiest target. Vista hacker Macaulay didn't dispute that assertion: "I think it might be," he said."

Nice!

[heyunl0ving]

I'm scared to even bother with MACs.