In my class we had a few with Macs and the rest had PCs. Some of them were PC geeks and they dragged along these huge PCs that weighed a ton. Of course the inevitable happened and we got in an argument one day, you know the classic one with PCs vs Macs. I'm trying to keep my temper down, stay cool and propose my arguments but these guys are just plain arrogant of what is the truth. I know they're in their right to have their opinion, but it just annoys me when people are arrogant and not willing to try anything new.
I've decided that next time, I won't enter the debate and just keep my trap shut and rest satisfied by having the best system.
Anyone else tried arguing with Windows people?
You speak about "the truth" like every other religious fanatic: You think that YOU own it and that everybody else who does not share YOUR opinion is blind, on the wrong track or just plain stupid. Beside other things, this is called arrogance.
I tell you something: I hate discussions with idiots, and I don't care whether they use Windows, OS X or Linux or if they are Muslims, Catholics or Protestants or Scientologists. Linux fanboys believe as much as you that they have "the best system", and so do Windows fanboys and OS X fanboys, and they all have their very individual reasons for their version of "the truth".
If the Mac really is the superior system, then how come that despite all the marketing that Apple throws at it, not even 10% of the world's market are occupied by Apple systems? Could it be, that maybe, the "best system" is only the best system for a fistful of people and a fistful of use cases? Is there a slight chance that the "inferior" PCs are actually better solutions for around 90% of the market?
You probably believe most of the marketing lies from Cupertino, for example that your Mac is magically more secure than an average Windows PC. Which is proven ********, because in every hacker contest, OS X boxes are the first to fall.
You probably believe that OS X doesn't get viruses. Well, since nobody writes them because of their tiny market share, that might even be true. But don't worry: Viruses are the least of your worries when you use Windows, because nobody really writes viruses for Windows these days either. Worms and trojans are the weapons of choice, and as you could read even here on Macrumors (look for the article about the illegal copies of iWork 09), OS X has some wonderful trojans, too - and no software to protect you from it, I might add.
You probably also believe that OS X is more stable and robust than Windows - and never wondered why you see the damn beach ball so often and it never occurred to you that it's OS X's lousy implemented Mach kernel that is causing these problems.
You probably try to convince everybody in your surrounding that the Mac is so much better, but quickly leave the room when people need certain software for which they are still no Mac counterparts and think it's a great solution to tell them that they can spend two hundred more dollars on VMWare or Parallels plus a Windows license to still run Windows. And the really sad part here is that you don't even realize that you are selling the people crutches because your Mac alone just doesn't cut it.
You believe that Apple has such great service, and don't even notice that even for all the money in the world, you won't ever get on site warranty from Apple -- which is the kind of warranty and service that every big PC label offers you.
You probably also believe that Apple is "the underdog" and that Microsoft is "the Evil Empire", totally ignoring that Apple sells more restricted products than Microsoft ever did, that Apple throughout its history has always been more sue-happy than Microsoft and that Apple even has more cash reserves than Microsoft.
Something is wrong with the picture you guys paint of Apple and Apple products, but you just refuse to see "the truth".
