Troll Trolling

I want spend this post calling out MacDailyNews as the sorriest excuse for a Mac blog I’ve ever come across.

Despite its name, they spend a great deal of time posting on Microsoft and how much Microsoft sucks. Such a post will be followed by a “MacDailyNews Take” in which they jerk off to how much Microsoft sucks and Apple is awesome.

Apple is awesome. As much as I’ve grown to dislike Windows, I still think Microsoft is awesome too. There’s room to like both, and there’s room to criticize each equally and fairly. MacDailyNews does neither, and the result is a following of the worst kind of Mac “fans” out there. The kind that would unabashedly sniff Steve Job’s farts, and God help you if you happened to catch a whiff and said “Ugh—*cough*AACK,” because that would be a clear indication of your lack of belief in His Steveness.

In today’s world, there’s so much of This vs That, that you’re expected to pick a side and the thought that, perhaps, choosing more that just one side is completely UNHEARD OF. I see this all the time in Wii vs Xbox 360 vs PS3 arguments, or indeed Mac vs PC arguments. You have to back only one of them up, and it’s damn near blasphemy if you ever show any kind of interest or support for anything other than what you’re backing. There’s absolutely no room to like more than one side in the eyes of some people.

A Linux user who loves Windows and OS X just as much? Get out of here. That’s ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as a Christian accepting that, maybe, there’s a chance there is no God?

Right? Right?

Keeping with the religious example I’ve now just got myself stuck in, being open minded doesn’t mean your faith has to be challenged. Just because you’re an avid Mac user and a big Apple fan, doesn’t mean you can’t use Windows or Microsoft products and enjoy doing so. Yeah, sometimes Microsoft makes it hard to enjoy using their products, but… Apple’s not perfect either. And you should trust a blog to draw a clear distinction there.

I realize I could simply not visit the site, but despite its overwhelming flaw and clear shittiness, MacDailyNews does offer some interesting bits of news in the Apple community. But the majority of its content is an insult to its own God damn name, and I think the internets would be better off without shit like that clogging up the tubes.

iMac Fund Begins!

I had been a Windows PC user since 1994. I was 9 years old at the time, and new to computers. Back then it was Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS, hardly user friendly compared to today. Up until 2005 I had a vague impression of Macintosh computers. And in 2005 I became greatly interested in the Apple world, and I’ve been following ever since.

Early 2006 I bought an old Power Macintosh G3 on eBay (the old “Blue & White” one) which ran Mac OS X Tiger pretty damn well. Not bad for a seven-year-old computer at the time running the latest version of Apple’s operating system. You wouldn’t find a PC that old running Vista.

In June 2007 I got my first brand new Mac, specifically the white MacBooks. I’m now using it as my main computer, and it’s functioning as a Desktop since I have it connected to an external display, keyboard, and mouse. And speakers. It’s currently the best computer I’ve ever owned. I say that as my loyal PC sits tucked away, still running, but stuck doing specific tasks. Like a cute little puppy.

I’ll be an Apple customer for life. I’m hooked.

Except that my MacBook isn’t really doing it for me. As I said, I’m using it as a Desktop replacement. What I’d really like is a proper desktop Mac, an iMac, that I can sit at and is a permanent fixture on my desk. Now that Apple has refreshed their desktop lineup (March 3rd) I find it’s time for me to finally get serious about saving up for one.

Today marks that day. The day I start saving. I’ve had a separate bank account, at a separate bank, from my normal bank since this last summer. It’s been sitting at $0 this whole time. Not anymore.

This is the best way you can save for something. Get a whole different bank account at a different bank, put money in it, and just forget it even exists. Out of sight, out of mind.