Over at
collegetimes.us, they had a post on the
Top 10 Reasons Why Mac Sucks. Below the are the original statements from collegetimes.us in bold followed by my response. If you were thinking of buying a Mac or PC, these answer might help you weed out some of the bullshit "facts" there are out there on the Mac. And for the record, the concept of Windows on a computer started at Xerox.
1.
The one and only business model for Apple is narcissism. Narcissism, maybe true, but if this were the case the Mac would have less features out of the box but that's not true. Out of the box, you have real compilers and a full blown development environment without even having to go on the internet.
2.
Macs are ridiculously overpriced. Macs also have high resale value.
3.
Macs regularly ignore mainstream industry trends. Apple has been renown for it's proprietary nature just like Sony. The only difference is that recently, Apple as began licensing it's proprietary I/O.
4.
Mac OS X is merely a locked down version of open-source Linux. If you consider a locked down interface "locked down" than you're right but considering you can do just about anything without an interface this point is moot. But even then, Apple support macros, something Windows hasn't.
5.
There is no right-f*cking-click! There is a right click noob.
6.
The Dock, and general screen layout, is retarded. (Followed by 8 bulletpoints) All weak points:
⁃ Look at the Calendar icon
⁃ If you married the Dock and (Program) Expose you'd have the Win7 taskbar. Minimize isn't necessary because of Expose and you can visual see what's minimized on the right.
⁃ X closes the window, not the application. Command + Q is you want to (q)it. This coming from the user that presses alt + F4…
⁃ It's Command + Tab and Command + tilde on OSX.
⁃ Maximize is a little weird, it only maximizes as much as is required. I suppose this is because it's trying to stay true to the windows concept but it does help for multitasking as does Growl.
⁃ You can hit space bar to preview them easier and at least OSX can open 100 windows without crashing.
⁃ This is probably why Macs come with high resolutions and don't allow you to fully maximize windows easily.
⁃ etc? Again, weak points.
7.
“It just… doesn’t work.” Macs do freeze, they're not perfect, but it's usually due to poorly written code (Firefox) or processor intensive apps (Virtual machines). I have yet to encounter a virus.
8.
Software and hardware options for Mac are lame, or slim at best. Mail does the job and does it well; iPhoto, meh, I use Picasa; rather use VLC than Quicktime. Dictionary rocks, notes is cool, iCal is great with Google Caldendar, iTunes… nvm, Xcode is cool, Terminal is great, TextEdit is sweet, iChat does the job, and lastly, I prefer Google Contacts over Address Book. As for 3rd party apps, I feel that the desktop era of 100+ apps is coming to an end. I only use simple apps for most of my tasks and while I do many of them on the PC, that's only because I don't want to relearn how to do it on Mac. But I do use Coda for web dev and Xcode for some programming tasks. But lately I've been using Vi so go figure :P
9.
Gaming, and graphics in general, suck on Macs. Gaming on non-consoles is dying in general. All you damn PC pirates are destroying the industry.
10.
Macs are not flexible or customizable. Macros and special functions exist that allow minor customizations. The Mac interface is pretty efficient once you learn how to use it and beautiful right from the beginning. I'm sure that's the reason no apps for customizing the Dock exist.
