Hey Dvorak, welcome to 1984

Maybe I shouldn't even link to this latest John C. Dvorak column, since in the past he's essentially admitted to antagonizing Mac users just to get traffic, but it's not every day that Dvorak basically admits that the Mac is superior. He goes out of his way to tell us he's not switching for his "personal use" but having used an iMac for the past couple of months on some other job, he's now allowing that "the machine is not half bad." He actually tries to downplay the gap between Macs and PCs - "the differences between the Mac and the PC that really matter are minor" - but he does concede that he senses "the OS is more solid than Microsoft Windows." He concludes with the obvious: Macs are more elegant and more useable. Well, Dvorak, welcome to 1984, better late than never.

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DamienDeeee

@sam & Orbberius

I've been using Macs & PCs since '92 - when has Windows ever been better at anything (besides marketing) than the Mac? It has always been a lousy imitation, a half assed copy of Macintosh since its inception.

Of course you are going to get flamed for a statement like that, since it is flat out wrong

Comparing OS7 to Win3.1? OS8 to Win95? Seriously,
What are you going sell us next? That GW Bush is a pretty good president?

July 27 2007 at 7:57 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ben the Dog

Joy of Tech has knocked this into cartoon news:

http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/990.html

July 27 2007 at 12:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

artifex

Sam: I agree. I didn't start seriously thinking about Macs for myself until OS X. Still...

July 26 2007 at 11:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

superpixel

John knows more than you might think, having been around for a lot of the evolution of computing as we know it. While he loves to bait, he's actually a pretty sharp guy, and there's nothing wrong with being a curmudgeon. I like to think of him as the H.L. Mencken of tech writing.

July 26 2007 at 11:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fritz Laurel

Yeah, OS X was indeed crap ... until they made it more like OS 9. [g]

Cheers,
FL

July 26 2007 at 10:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sriggins

I love John. We need people to piss us off, it keeps us honest. Fan bois only bring you down into a world of complacency. Look at MS.

July 26 2007 at 9:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Orbberius

sam, you are right on. OS 9 was pure shit (oh god the horror, it was just so bad) and OS X wasn't very good either till they fixed all the kinks and ExposÃ© came out.

Mac is definitely better right now though. Vista really missed the mark.

July 26 2007 at 8:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fritz Laurel

"Saying Windows is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming."
Guy Kawasaki, 1995

Cheers,
FL

July 26 2007 at 7:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sam

I know I may get flamed for this, but Macs weren't better for a long time. In fact, everything in betweem the first Mac and OS X was pretty much right crap.

I'll go wherever the best computers are. For a while it was PCs, now it's Macs.

July 26 2007 at 7:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

artifex

Hey, who invited HIM to the social?

:)

July 26 2007 at 7:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply