This is by far the best and funniest article I have read in the recent years.
An excerpt:
Look, you can pester me all you want, mock my stubbornness, and even point at me and laugh, but one thing is certain: I’m not buying a Mac.
For more than 20 years, I have used only MS-DOS- and Windows-based computers. During that time, I have purchased enough Microsoft software to feed a small family for a year — assuming that I could somehow transform 600-page manuals and stacks of 3.5-inch floppy disks and those annoying “Certificates of Authenticity” into edible human nourishment.
To date, I have endured 1.4 million system crashes, watched 19,874 word processing documents vanish into the ether — many of which would certainly have won prestigious literary prizes — and directed 455,391 expletives at “Bill Gates” and “Michael Dell” and “any human being remotely involved in the creation of this hideous device.”
Despite all this, every few years I replace my outdated PC with a new one. “I already know how to do everything on a PC,” I say, echoing the most popular explanation for not switching to Apple.
Meanwhile, since the mid-1980s I have seen Mac users walk around as if they don’t have a care in the world. With a playful jauntiness in their step, and noticeably fewer forehead lines, they boast about the “coolness factor” of their iMacs and iBooks and G4s. And from what I can tell, their lives are as clean and uncluttered as Apple’s elegant user interface, all smooth and logical and perfect.
Make sure you read the full article to get a good chuckle out of the column. His other articles are also peppered with great insight and original humor.
The author, Bill Shein, is the Winner of the 2005 National Press Club Award for Humor.
via [MacDailyNews]