"Hello, I'm a twat"

[zenith]

So when you see the ads, you think, "PCs are a bit rubbish yet ultimately lovable, whereas Macs are just smug, preening tossers." In other words, it is a devastatingly accurate campaign.

I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did.

Charlie Brooker on the

Comments

[plumsbitch]

absolutely! That comment just made me fall in love with him all over again.

[alexmacpherson]

I'm going to buy a Mac this week.

I don't like the ads but everyone I know seems to have been sent incandescent by them, I don't get why they're particularly obnoxious compared to all other ads ever. Who are the people in it anyway and why do people care?

[cis]

I didn't know who the people in it were until reading that column (where it tells you who those people are, they're on a comedy show on telly): I dislike the ads because they're hateful. And make me embarassed-by-association to be a mac user: i'm not one of those smug cvnts! honest! i just like my pwbk, it is pretty and friendly and very useable.

[alexmacpherson]

I hadn't read the column until just now! It's as bad as the ads frankly, ie very bad but not noteworthily so because Brooker, and computer ads, are ALWAYS this bad. I agree about the Grau subs though, I have that EXACT issue with them. Also they are the first people I've ever written for who make my sentences worse rather than better.

I dunno, I'm just getting a powerbook on Gareth's advice. Macs don't get viruses apparently, and the price difference is erased via Sam's student discount, and if I got a PC I'd get a Dell and that would be awful cos I use a Dell at work and it would feel like I was never getting away from it, and also Macs are prettier.

Also, prior to last week I had NO IDEA about all of this identification stuff wrt Macs/PCs!

[alexmacpherson]

also if those people are on a comedy show on TV they are ALREADY bad, wrong, evil people.

[iamus]

The adverts are shite and Webb is an actor of little-to-no talent, but sometimes I think Charlie Brooker just needs to eat a whole packet of Tums and have a nice lie down.

[theorybitch]

Those ads are an exact symptom of everything that is wrong with the world. I really love Macs (though I have a PC) but they make me not want to go anywhere near the bloomin' things.

Are the British ones sexist, too? Have you seen the American version of a Mac and a PC home movie hanging out? OMFG.

[blahflowers]

The thing is, in about ten years of owning a PC, I've never had a virus that completely fucked my machine, because I bought a fucking virus-checker and keep it up to date. I didn't get spam emails until I foolishly signed up my home email with a Google Group and, now I've unsubscribed, the spam seems to be abating. And while the first computer I had did have a problem playing games, because it was Windows '95 and didn't like going to DOS so the games would load, once I got Windows '98 or later crashing was a minimal problem at worst, crashing probably less than a dozen times a year.

So I've never seen the point of the Mac versus PC wars because, even as a user of Microsoft products I've never had that much of a problem with the reliability of my machines.

I did like how Apple have signed up with the Guardian so, while reading Charlie's column, on the right hand side of the screen there's one of those very Apple ads. I'm surprised that the Guardian subs only piddled around with his grammar, they could have spiked the piece.

[carrot_rope]

Well, isn't it symptomatic of something that you actually have to buy a virus checker and keep it up to date?

[pot80]

You don't have to buy anything, that shit is free, son.

[carrot_rope]

He said brought! That always makes me think "buy". I know you can get them free!

But still, it's unnecessary hassle, free or not.