As a new switcher I had that same concern. I'm very happy that Mac viruses are beginning to come out now. That'll shut the smug bastards up.
"listening to a lot of belle and sebastian". heh. I'm starting to have positive thoughts towards the idea of the ipod. starting. sort of.
Just a point about the extended warranty: yes it's worth it but no you don't have to buy it straight away. You have until the normal warranty runs out until you buy it (although on the normal warranty I think you don't get phone support after 90 days).
applecare is well worth the money. i have some really good, happy stories to tell about applecare, but won't waste your time. anyway, welcome to the club. and i don't like belle & sebastian, but do type in all lowercase, 'cause well, it's easier.
and the ipod is really, really cool. trust me. i have two.
perhaps an "after" picture of the new hair could somehow be joined with a photo of the new computer, which i hope will be very very good to you as a means of thanking you for taking you out of its sterile store and putting it to good use in a real environment.
Electronics encased in oak? There is a craigslist ad I so want to link to here and I would buy you this appliance encased in oak--except I'm buying it for myself. It doesn't work, but still. Oak!
My vision of the Mac person is totally different than your vision of the Mac person but for me, it's just I never felt good enough to be the Mac person.
Hey, long as you keep blogging, your front end can be a hamster in an exercise wheel for all we care. ;-)
GO MAC! I LOVE MACS! I LOVE ALL CAPS! I'M COMING TO NEW YORK ON WEDNESDAY! WOO-HOO! I'M BRINGING MY POWERBOOK AND MY iPOD AND MY WHOLE B&S COLLECTION!
j/k
i am coming to new york but i am not bringing any belle and sebastian. what should we do? any good ideas?
I'll tell you what you should do, you should come to Cringe, that's what! Wednesday night! I'll email you.
I love my iBook. I really do. But I don't wear scarfs indoors and my boyfriend would not have a clule about what to do with a hair product, aside from mock it.
So, I think you'll be fine.
XOXOXO.
Ha, I'm so with ya on the earbuds-they always fall out. I have an iBook AND an 8-track; I'm surprised they even let me set foot in the store!
I wear these large black earpieces that clip around my ear lobes, because I usually only listen to my iPod when I'm running and I need to clip them on or they'll fall off. Rather than being retro-cool, though, I'm pretty sure I just look like an idiot.
This entry made me almost snort Milky Way out my nose twice. Yes, I realize that Milky Way is a solid food product. Please don't call me a liar.
Aw crap. I'm wearing a scarf inside this very instant.
Mom, I learned it from watching YOU!
"I think a lot of this comes from the annoying iPod commercials, and just the interior of the Apple store itself—it’s all brightly-lit and full of right angles, and free of clutter or any human involvement, like an IKEA catalog fucked Annette Bening."
That was the funniest thing I've read in a long long time. Thanks for the laugh.
If you bought an iPod Nano you could hide it inside the case an old Sony Walkman. Then you wouldn't have to walk around the city with your head hung low in shame.
I think I must be the only person in the world to own a Mac and hate it. My ibook has been nothing but problems since I got it. My next computer will be a PC, so I'll be working the opposite transition.
I'm sorry, but I still feel about Macs the way you used to. Also, iPods suck and Stve Jobs is a fascist. iPods will not allow you to use .wma files, because they're a Microsoft design. But they also are smaller, thereby allowing you to load more of them onto your mp3 player. There are plenty of mp3 players that rock and cost so much less than an iPod. So...there's that. Whew, I feel better.
Buy the Mac not 'cause it's emo, but because it will not piss you off nearly as much as a PC. My husband is a tech-geek, and will give you plenty of other reasons to Mac it up, but for me, I just like when my electronics don't provoke me to throw them against walls. (And I'm hardly cutting edge - I still have a tape player, and only a tape player, in my car.)
"like an IKEA catalog fucked Annette Bening"
I so want to be you when I grow up... I've yet to enter a dive bar but thats the plan so I'm on my way.
kisses to you sugarface,
Laura
Sniff... you have listed nearly every characteristic about me as a 'dislike' in this post... You hate me.
welcome sara...welcome.
Holy shit, this is the funniest post I've ever read! My goodness, this made me laugh harder that badnewshughes' ye olde diary of indignities (and he made me laugh pretty damn hard). Oh, and I'm so technologically inept, I'm not sure how to make a hyperlink in my comments--but I think you probably know badnewshughes.blogspot.com.
Anyhow, I teach introductory college English courses, and I would love to use this post as a lesson in metaphor, personification, and irony. Yes, this is what happens when a 25 year-old teaches college. They all think I'm on crack anyway. But, may I use it as an example? I'll credit my sources, of course.:)
Or, if you find this a completely odd and unsettling request, I think I'll live.
I guess this isn't where I tell you that everybody I know with macs has had to take repeated advantage of their warranties?
I'll shut up now. I've got a card catalog and an abacus that I can loan you...
(I do not even have a home computer.)
"I generally demand my electronics cased in gleaming polished oak, and so large that you can smell whether they’re on or off..."
it's writing like this that keeps me checking in daily to see if you've updated.
thanks you.
Welcome to the Mac side! I tried and tried to do the PC thing, but can you imagine doing design work - something creative and free - on a system that is so linear it makes, well, I don't know what it makes. Yes, they have the design software for Macs, and yes, they have come a long way, but the soul is just missing. Sometimes you need a soul less computer (one you don't feel guilty for cursing and beating), and for that I have a PC at home. But when you want to commune with your machine, a Mac is what will do it for you. We have four computers at home, two PC and two Mac, and actually when the work laptops are home, we have three of each. But even my tech geek boyfriend (who likes it when I call him that, I swear) has found himself drawn to the Mac.
OMG. I totally sound like those Mac people you are worried about. When did that happen? I don't wear scarves inside though. Please forgive me.
Anyway, welcome to the Mac side.
Given the amount of thought you have put into the impact a computer can have on your image you certainly belong on the Mac side.
I was considering the switch, sort of, until my Dell laptop got stolen from my house and I cried and cried and bought a $400 used Toshiba because it was all I could afford.
I will say though that when I do ever finally get an mp3 player, I will not only have huge padded headphones, I will buy a Creative Zen or some such iPod competitor because I have hips.
i just got a digital camera 3 weeks ago. i have yet to own a cell phone. i have a 14lb toshiba laptop from college that i have not upgraded or taken out of my closet, so technically, i don't have a home computer either. i've passed the point of embarassment about it all and now you're now my inspiration, s. brown.
somewhere steve jobs is rubbing his hands together and whispering, "eeeeexcelent."
I'm a PC person and I married a Mac person. It was touch and go for awhile there, but we did learn to bridge the gap and we now consider ourselves to be a socially groundbreaking couple, representing to all that these two worlds can be combined.
We've had 3 children and they're gorgeous. Of course, I always hear people say that when a PC person and a Mac person breed, their offspring is more beautiful (the combined code) than any pure-play PC or Mac child could ever be.
From the dinosaur age, and yet you blog... I'm not buying it! Great writing, thanks for the laughs!
I received and ipod and an ibook at the same time for my Christmas/graduation present. Talk about culture shock. I don't know what to do with myself. I don't feel worthy to touch these items when I am loafing around in a sweatshirt and pajama pants. But...I have grown to love them...and yes, I do have the clunky large earphones. Earbuds frighten me.
I like classical, i like grUNge, I hate products in my hair or ON MY face. I have a Mac, and Macs only. I still spin records, but I am no DJ. I have no iPods of any incarnation. I am waiting for the iPod that is so small that you just place it directly in your ears, and it holds 5 billion songs, and runs on body heat, and it provides direct visual stimuli to your brain so you can watch videos without a SCReen.
I hope you have a long and fulfilling existence with your Mac.
go check out the comic at Toothpaste For Dinner today... VERY FITTING!!!
Welcome to the right side of the tracks. I switched 3 years ago, right after I started selling Apple computers. What a life changing experience. What model did you get?
And don't worry about the other commenter's opinion that iPods suck because they don't accept .wma files.
1) iTunes will convert WMA for people and
2) What do you care, you have a MAC! :-)
I really like your (true) stereotyping here. I personally hate the iPod with its tiny earbuds and its commercialness, and am sticking with the CD player for as long as possible. I hate Macs too, so I guess we're kind of soulmates... you're just a little ahead of me in adaptation.
crap. i don't use caps cuz i'm lazy. i wear scarves indoors because everyone else in my office is a freakin eskimo and loves the cold!! erm, sorry. i may or may not have listened to b&s, but i can definitively say my husband does NOT like hair product. i also like dive bars. does this mean i'm just confused?
It's like an IKEA catalog fucked Annette Bening....love it! Best line I've read in a long time. Enjoy the new technology.
You'll enjoy the Mac, don't worry.
I know you don't know me, but feel free to e-mail me for help or tips, or just to simply learn about cool stuff!
Welcome! I deal with the care of Macs and PCs for a paycheck. Macs cause me sooooo much less trouble than the PCs, it's not funny. To the person with iBook troubles, sob to your local Apple Store Mac Genius. I've had Apple replace completely machines that were continuously troublesome - even 2 years old - with brand-new hardware. Ask and you shall receive :-) As for AppleCare, yeah, their support people are outstanding. I know one of the people who trains them and she's outstanding. But I buy it only for laptops, never for desktops, and hardly ever regret that choice. But I guess in dealing with volume, I play the odds :-)
Make sure to turn on the Speech mode and tell the computer "Tell me a joke". Those cheeky programmers included the lamest/funniest (it's all a matter of perspective, no?) jokes into that mean 'lil machine.
It's a dream. Welcome to the club.
Vive le Mac! I put product in my hair, but don't bite.
GET THE EXTENDED WARRANTY!
And that is all I will say about that.