So Rapidfire pointed me in the direction of this post. Now, I haven't talked to much about this topic but as my closer friends will know I am not a Mac man by any means. I support Linux alot but I use Windows the most because I am stuck there because thats where the market resides at this time. After reading through this whopping 4 page article I was left in disgust. Not because he put down the Mac, but because he made up bull shit about it to make it seem worse than some people already feel it is.  Here is my response...

I am not a Mac fan. I am, however, a software developer though and I understand the need for the Mac OS along with the need for many other operating systems. I run a triple-boot on my laptop with Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Ubuntu (a Linux distribution). My experience with Mac’s is limited to using them at school rarely just to get a feel for them. But I do read a lot of articles about technology and computer software/hardware in particular.

I would like to point out that you have completely misrepresented the Mac in this blog. For example, Mac hardware is upgradeable, and user preference over Windows to the Mac is quite high as I understand from a study involving 15,000 students). Also, check your stats on the amount of people using Mac's and the amount using Windows before you post false numbers.

The one thing I disagree with about the Mac is the cost of its operating systems as they are built off of the Unix/Linux kernel with minor changes. My problem is that the Unix/Linux kernel is covered under the GFPL (Gnu Free Public License) which means you can use it, extend it, do what you want with it as long as its free and credit is given to the appropriates people. I'll often draw a picture of the Mac's garbage bin with the GFPL in it because Jobs has completely ignored it and gotten away with it somehow.

AceLuby, put it well saying that the Mac is Linux for dummies. Which was the purpose of the Mac, it’s like the Nintendo Wii; it’s for casual users not the hardcore. You might think Windows is for the hardcore but it’s not. Linux is for the truly hardcore.

Another thing I wanted to point out because you were saying Mac hardware runs poorly is that that is entirely untrue. Some more tests/experiments for you to look up: Macbook Pro's run the Windows operating system the best of any system available. The low resource development of Mac OS's could only mean that an Apple proprietary Operating system would run much better.

Extensibility wise, there’s no answer other than Linux. See Kulupoo's response to AceLuby for an example. But also as bigunderground said software for Linux is limited which accounts for the amount of people not using Linux.

But like Ballistic Jay said, it’s all opinion and sadly I think a lot of people are getting caught in the Windows craze because of their lack of experience with the Mac or many of the other Operating Systems available (even the free ones; Ubuntu).

So just as you have your opinion so do many other people. The problem I have with your document is how you made stuff up to make the Mac look worse than it is. It’s okay to show bias when writing but to let your bias run wild with imagination and completely misrepresent something is wrong and unfair. If I were an administrator of this website I would have your article removed because sadly a lot of people don’t know enough about the topic to see through your lies. I hope my response has shed some light on them.

Check your sources.

 

Ps. It was hard from the start to take you seriously with all the spelling mistakes in this article -- 'there/their' just one example.

 

Pps. North Korea is the bad one -- another misrepresentation.

There only one thing to say about  Kakkoii (the author of that blog): WAFN. 

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