Re: [microsound] MUTEK musings...

[Steven Taylor <kung.funk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At the end of the day I use Mac & PC.
Macs feel like youre using them wearing boxing gloves.
PCs feel like youre using them wearing gloves with 7 fingers.
they both suck.

Øivind Idsø wrote:

> Steven Taylor wrote:
>
> > > yep. and its Apples marketing that fools Mac users into believing they
> > > are superior.
> >
> > thats slightly ambiguous. I meant that Apples Marketing seems to convince
> > some people that they are superior human beings by simply choosing an
> > Apple Mac...
>
> It´s not about superior human beings. It´s about more or less ordinary human
> beings choosing a superior platform.
>
> And whether or not marketing can "fool" anyone into thinking one thing or
> another is also a debateable (sp?) question. My guess is that most/many
> Mac-users are happy Mac-users because their machine works, not because Apple
> says that you are cool because you buy a cool machine. For example: you buy
> a new thingy, you plug it in, and it works. This has been the case for every
> add-on device I´ve bought for my Mac(s). I know this plug&play thing does
> not work as well on PCs.
>
> What´s really fascinating is that the crapness of Microsoft hasn´t scared
> people from using their systems/software. My father might be getting into
> non-lineary video editing pretty soon. I would never ever advice him to get
> a PC. How on earth would he figure out IRQs, device-driver-this and
> device-driver-that etc.?
>
> (ok, this is getting silly. Guess we should call it quits now).
>
> /Øivind/
>
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