I have come to the dark side.
I know all that stuff about materialism, about things not making you happy and all that, I really believe it’s true. But when you need a tool (and that’s all this is) for your job (and that’s partly what this is), it might as well be a finely tuned, fine-looking machine (and that’s exactly what this is).
One of the best things about Mac stuff is the way they package it. When you open the box you’re greeted not with styrofoam peanuts and their unearthly squeaking but with a sleek silver-grey box greeting you with a welcome message from Apple, written in the most pleasing font. You slide the machine out of its cradle and it feels like you’re an archaeologist pulling treasure from Tut’s sarcophagus. Knowing that the thrill will wear off in a matter of minutes only makes me enjoy more it while it lasts. -Andrew Peterson
So, I ordered a Mac Book Pro the other night. Marla is starting to give me a few problems and Jason has been trying to talk me into getting a Mac for ages. My whole family switch to Mac years ago, never mind that I was borne and practically raised (I used how to use a computer in school, which was on an apple) on a PC. Seriously, for a while all that I knew to be true was completely shattered. I love Marla. Its hard to even type the news to her that she will be getting a new brother. But just maybe I will feel like Andrew Peterson and Marla will retire and think about the happy life she has lead.
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From the title alone, I knew what you had done. Welcome to the Cult! I’ll send you the Kool-Aid recipe.
No, Microsoft is the Dark Side. This was all started in the mid-nineties when people started comparing Microsoft to the evil empire in Star Wars due to Microsoft’s fierce competitive / sometimes anti-competitive activities. Even Slashdot shows Gates as a Borg. Same idea.
So Macs are the light side! And don’t listen to people who tell you there’s not enough Mac software out there. There’s plenty.
Try http://www.MacOSX.com if you have questions about your Mac.
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What is the Kool-Aid recipe?
I can’t post that on the Internet, Alisa! They might learn what it is in Redmond!
Drinking the Kool-Aid refers, of course, to the Jimmy Jones masascre in which a cult leader convinced normal people to commit suicide by consuming poison-laced Kool-Aid. Since then the phrase, “drinking the Kool-Aid”, is used to refer to people have been convinced to fervently embrace something that is not in their best interest.
To defend the decision to use Microsoft Windows, a product that is so poorly designed that it takes a billion dollar industry just to secure it and to fix it…a product that is anti-consumer with draconian licensing and heavy handed DRM embedded throughout…a product that disdains standards and illegally ties browsers and media players to their OS, limiting the ability to easily select other software…people who embrace and defend using such a product and then call people who choose a product that does not burden the consumer in these ways, Kool-Aid drinkers…THESE are the people who are truly drinking the the Kool-Aid.
Hey, Geoff – are you a Mac user who is just calling your own a cult and “kool-aid drinkers” because we Mac-useres are always called that by the ignorant Windows masses. Or are you actually an ignorant Kool-Aid drinking Windows apologist that has never used a Mac before?
I prefer the Kool-Aid recipe of the 1960s.
Thomass: The next Mac I buy will be my fifth. I’ll sell my last-model G4 iBook before buying that one, though.
Welcome to the iLife. i of coarse most think means internet but with a Mac it is that and so much more – it is – inspiring and ingenious. But remember i is also for I as in YOU because with a Mac all things in Life become possible:)
I am a proud owner of 4 currently running and networked Macs in my home, I have owned many others over the past 20 years of my iLife with a Mac, yes it was an iLife even before we knew it was
I regularly drink deeply from the kool-aid and live to be enchanted my Steve’s keynotes and presentations.
Overall I must admit being a member of the Mac cult is a wonderful Life errr make that iLife
Those who keep referring to Apple as the “dark side” probably have never seen the Star Wars movies, thus have their analogies ass backwards. Microsoft=the evil empire, or the dark side. Apple are the rebels who are fighting against the evil empire. Please get that right. Windows people have so turned it around so that they’re calling Apple the dark side. Isn’t it Microsoft that has this vast empire, compared to Apple’s teeny weeny 5% share?
Anyone who has used both platforms extensively knows which one is the dark side and why Bill Gates is portrayed as a Borg leader.
Ive actucally seen all the Star Wars movies, more than once. Im just one of those people who swore she’d never get a Mac, so to me, I am going to the dark side.
You know, I once knew a girl who said she never saw any of the movies (the first three movies). Said she swore she’ll never watch them because, as she told me, Mark Hamill once snubbed her in a high school in Japan. Mark Hamill was an Army brat and his family was once stationed in Japan. I also had an ex-roommate, who stopped watching Magnum P.I. because Tom Selleck had snubbed him at a Supermarket. But that’s another story.
Anyway, I hope this girl got to watch the last three movies in the Star Wars series since Mark Hamill wasn’t in any of them. I’ll ask her if I ever see her again.
So welcome to the Mac. Peace.
Ah, ha. So resistance is not futile. Congrats!
I CANNOT WAIT TO VIDEO CHAT! HOORAY!
oh my. some serious mac users here. glad you’re getting a mac. you’re gonna love it. i can never go back. to the dark side or whatever.