PC Magazine trolls for zealots

Wow... I've never read a more pissy article in a magazine or on its website than this article.

Jim Louderback really seems to have a stiffie for Mac-bashing. It seems nothing but a Dell running MS Windows will ever be good enough for him.

Calling Mac enthusiasts "Lemmings" is a little harsh, considering he's advocating the product of a monopolist... Who's the Lemming, Jim?!

If this article is any indication of ol' Jimmy-boy's value to society, then... well... the phrase "waste of skin" comes to mind.

I will grant that a dual-boot capability is nothing new in PC-dom... Although I've never used the capability, most GNU/Linux distributions have had the capability of dual-booting since at least 1998, when I started with it. I just boot into Linux. That's fine for me.

I find it a little strange that Jim dismisses the entire Mac user community and any in the MS Windows camp who might try Mac Boot Camp as not being "Real Computer Users", implying that MS Windows users are "Real Computer Users"... um... Jackass? Yeah... Jackass. How many of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers are running MS Windows? I didn't have time to look at all 500, but 7 of the top 10 are running Linux. "Real Computer". Ha!

Oh, and blaming the handle on the orignal iMac for starting the whole "luggable" trend. Dude, what the fuck planet have you been on, Jimbo? Anyone remember the KayPro?!... Or the Osborne?! Needle-dick.


...and here's an interesting bit from the article: "Remember the bad old days of OS/2 and Windows NT, and MIPS- and Alpha-based computers? Fanatics tried to push these supposedly better systems on everyone, touting power, capability, and destiny. It was all bunk, and each died from neglect." Neglect? No, not neglect. Try predatory monopolism. Intel got in, not because their product was better, but because it was cheap and they were riding on Microsoft's coat tails. Microsoft got in, not because they had a great product, but because they have been a biat-and-switch outfit almost since day one. MIPS is a superior architecture, as is the DEC Alpha. It may surprise some young'uns to hear that DEC (That's Digital Equipment Corporation) had a killer 64-bit RISC Architecture back in 1992, a full 11 years before 64-bitness came to the Intel-compatible realm. And Microsoft STILL doesn't support it in consumer-land 3 years later. Bad old days, indeed. Putz.


..and he ends the article this way: "...don't come running to me when your mind and body prematurely degenerate. I'll be smart, fit, and enjoying my real Windows computers, while you ooze slowly into the Pixar-Disney-ABC swamp of mindlessness. Chump." I'm not really defending Apple, here... I lost what respect I had for them when the decided to dump PowerPC for Intel.... but "...smart, fit and enjoying my real Windows computers..."?! Yeesh! Keep an eye on that guy! He might just be ready to martyr himself at his nearest "Apple Store."