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Man, everyone loves to hate Microsoft. Now first off, I’m not Microsoft fan myself, I hate their business tactics, and vista is pretty damn slow, but come on, OSX is not that much better. Oh sure, it looks fancy, and has a neat dock, and has expose, but those are all programs. Countless clones of those programs have been made for windows and the only thing that prevents them from being as good as the OSX counterpart is a lack of developer dedication.

At the actual system level, what makes a good OS? Compatibility. Microsoft has this edge and is way beyond Apple in this respect. Yes, OSX is linux based, which is awesome, but have you ever tried to run a non-command-line linux program in OSX? What a Headache.

Windows on the other hand, has countless programs and countless manufacturers supporting it. Yes, you might think Microsoft has evil business tactics in not releasing source code and such, but Apple is even worse in not letting anyone but themselves sell computers with OSX! Nevermind the fact that Macs are incredibly overprices anyway.

All in all, Microsoft is hated because it’s successful. Everyone loves Apple because it’s the underdog. It’s the choice of the artist, it’s the ‘rebel’ computer. It’s so damn cool to own a Mac. Unfortunately, it’s not useful for shit. Sure, it has neat programs like iMail, iTunes, iPhoto, whatever, but these are often not much better than their windows counterparts, nevermind that there are far better downloadable programs for windows.

That said, all you Apple fanboys. Get over your Mac fetish and look at which platform actually helps you get stuff done. If I want to shiney reflections I’ll get a Mac. If I want to get something done or play a game or anything else, I’ll stay as far away from Macs as possible. They’re great in theory, but that’s about it.

(btw, ever wonder why such a great feature of Intel macs is their ability to run Windows? )

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