First I must thank STLANDAU for responding to the Mac question. It appears to me that it can all be boiled down to the "coolness" factor. And really by now hasn't the Mac become so cool that it should be uncool. I guess the only problem is that there is no other game in town, your either PC or Mac. Well if it is mainly about being cool then I'll stick with the PC and pocket my extra 500 dollars. Coolness has never been an aspiration of mine.
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"It's all in good fun!" TonyC shouts at me. I'm offended you've boiled a nice, clean summary down to Cool or Uncool. !!!
Maybe biG should weigh in. Are you happy with your Mac or are you keeping it around just to be with the In Crowd?
Don't get me wrong, TC, I'm grateful for my little pc that (almost) could. It's helped me start writing again, it's easier to email, and I can (sometimes) print worddocs. I only wish it didn't freeze up on me every night. You call me a perfectionist. Maybe so, maybe so.
All of my friends at school that had computers (which, at that point, was still pretty cutting edge) had Macs; they fit neatly on their desks, used cute, brightly colored solid discs, and had great games (Tetris, SimCity). I had the monolithic IBM, used WordStar, floppy disks, and a dot matrix printer. And yet, somehow, I still (thought I) was 2Kool!
I can't say that I'm "cool" or "uncool" because of my computer. And now that everyone has iPods, does that make you "cool?"
I think what it boils down to isn't "cool" or "uncool," but life philosophy. PCs are about work, even though they'll try to make you think they're about life. Macs are about life, though you can also do work...
For me, being a designer, I use my Mac for work. But it's the kind of work that makes you feel like you're living. Does that make me cool, or uncool?
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