Okay, so Apple has great gadgets. I love my iPod and the iPhone is really nifty.
Their computers? not so much.
Their games suck, they can’t be modded and if something on/in them breaks you can’t just swap it out yourself.
The whole “Mac never crashes and never gets viruses and is faster” thing is pretty non-applicable as well when you’re running an awesome system like my core 2 duo Tardly v4. I know the debate goes on and on and on, but honestly, I can do everything just as fast and well on my PC and also play some fucking awesome games. I would actually buy a Mac laptop just to have one for the clients that are all OMG MAC RULES and can’t figure out how to make fonts/files cross-platform compatible for print, but I’d never make one my main system.
Anyway…
So Rick’s iPod went on the fritz and he took it to the Mac store for some fixin’. Simple problem, fixed fast.
BUT when he walked in the door he was assaulted by a gaggle of hipsters in cool clothes with trendy hair wanting to help him. Macs seem to attract the people who want to be “cool” and are into the latest hip hot trends. They buy into that whole “image” that is supposedly connected to being a Mac user. The store is clean to the point of being sterile and everything is trendily displayed in a minimalist way.
I dunno about you, but that’s not what I want in my computer store.
I want to walk into a computer store (like our local PC Club) and be able to vaguely smell the funk of nerd somewhere in the store.
I don’t want to go to a computer store where no one in the damn place has a BMI over 22.
I want to see Dream Theater and They Might Be Giants t-shirts.
I want to have to actually try to get the tech nerd’s attention because he’s so engrossed in whatever it is he’s doing, be it porn, games or actual work.
I don’t want to go to a computer store where everyone has pretty hair. I want D&D ponytails and beards with pieces of lunch in them.
I don’t want someone to try to sell me on the “image” of a computer.
I want someone who gets wood explaining how to overclock your CPU and mod your case.
I don’t want spotless glass tables with one product and no information sitting on each one.
I want plastic drawers full of RAM and hard drives sitting in anti-static bags on the shelves next to the motherboard displays.
I dunno, personal preference, I guess.