RE: Reflecting on the shitty days of computing
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A lot of my friends transitioned over to Macs because they were "virus proof" which of course isn't at all true but they just weren't targeted as much because during the heyday of viri, very few people used Macs. Now all of those people are paying inflated prices until the end of time because they have gotten accustomed to having the close, maximize, minimize buttons on the top left instead of the right or something :)
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Haha, yeah I totally remember that sentiment. I had a friend that used to say those same things about Mac computer being impervious to viruses as well as incapable of crashing. It was weird having people talk to me in this way knowing that I was a working IT professional and they didn't even work in a computer related field.
I remember one day I was over at his house and he was editing some tracks in Pro Tools on his Mac and he was literally, at that exact moment, talking about how amazing Apple computers were. He went up to save his project and got the 'pinwheel of death' and his computer hard froze and rebooted. He came up with some convoluted reason why this wasn't a true crash or something. It was entertaining to say the least.
I don't mean to be an elitist but I have found that the people I know that are dedicated Mac users tend to know the least about any sort of actual computing. I think many of them are just drawn in by the prestige of it all. The actual "guts" of a Mac aren't worth anywhere near as much as they are charging for it... you are basically just paying for the name.
I saw a sign somewhere in a cafe that was anti-Apple and it said "Macs aren't expensive, they are simply overpriced."