Joshua Kors bought a Mac, but cannot figure it out. Today in the Huffington Post he writes — perhaps a little too confidently — about flaws such as OSX’s inability to move files between disks, run Windows software, or do more than one font. The funniest excerpts follow:
The only word processor I could find on my iMac was TextEdit, essentially a stripped-down version of Notepad. The program had an excellent array of font options, like “Bigger” and “Smaller. … I was heartsick to learn that the thesaurus WordWeb, every author’s best friend, didn’t work on Mac’s OS.
I knew that, unlike a PC, I wouldn’t be able to connect one computer to another and transfer over my documents.
Unlike a PC, the Mac wouldn’t let me move files to and from my external drive … Even moving over my iTunes playlist, I soon learned, was going to take intricate coding tweaks.
For the next few years I could type every letter in 16-point font, then decrease the font size just before sending it, or I could decrease the screen’s radically high resolution. I sighed, realizing this was yet another Mac complication for a function my PC simply performed without fuss. … Now I was going to have to decrease the screen resolution simply so I could write emails.
The final straw came when Mac’s Firefox took me to my website. To my horror, all the spacing was askew.
Cringey! But Mac fans can also summon a nerdrage that outstrips their understanding of the machine. Here’s part of a recent post from one popular Mac blog (I won’t name it, as has apparently since removed the post) unaware of iMac-style all-in-one PCs, the control panel, and, perhaps, the lurking horrors beneath OSX’s clutter-hiding UI:
Try having a clutter free desk when you are using a desktop PC, I can count at least 5 wires going in different directions in your desk. This is not just aesthetics, no, this is the way PCs are. After a month working with a brand new one you will find yourself with a soup of DLLs from installed programs, temporary files that never get deleted, swap files that never get clean and a myriad of other annoyances from windows that will make your life miserable, not to mention will slow down your system. Mac OS, while not perfect, handles this way better. Linux might be a solution, but then again if you are like my mom it will only confuse you. … Try getting your ip on windows 7.
Why can’t we all just get along?