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• Thursday, November 8, 2007 11:00 AM

  Huh

  I don't think I've said anywhere that I think that PCs are superior to Macs. Just that my own personal experience with a Mac was bad for some quite specific reasons--it kept crashing when I played the one game that came bundled in it, it didn't run some of the software I needed to use unless I payed more for a program to run Windows within it, and because after using DOS and then Windows-based machines for so long, and being dyslexic, I had trouble since so many things run "backwards." Some people who run specific programs or have specific needs, particularly artistic ones, find PCs problematic. Like I said, but like hardly anyone is acknowledging, many of the PC users here have no problem whatsoever saying Macs are darned good machines, at least as good as PCs, yet for one reason or another they prefer PCs. The tech people who work on both of them develop preferences, and obviously Windows has some serious problems, but overall the only two people I personally know who work on both kinds of machines at work have PCs at home--but they're both gamers.

  But I do, in fact, LOVE my PC and laptop computers. Which is lucky because I use them so very much. And I love some of the fun features Microsoft has added to Office, and some of the features that are built into the operating system. Of course, what's fun for me is stupid or a pain in the neck for some other PC users. That's exactly the point. We are individuals. There are two big commercial corporations building operating systems (one of which also builds the computers needed to run their operating system). Neither company is a religion. Neither computer is a god. But it's an either-or situation for bazillions of individuals. Whichever we choose, for whatever reason, we're neither superior nor inferior to anyone else, at least not because of our computer choice.

  But I am not a liar. My XP professional computer really has never once crashed. The fact that one person honestly seems to believe that I must be a liar tells me he's been indoctrinated, and chosen his computer not for rational reasons but because of some irrational beliefs.

  —chickadee Read chickadee's other letters
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