Macs rule

by Sean Vidal

Last week, Amanda Peterka wrote that Macs suck . Her research showed that smart girls in Honors College prefer PCs. (Click here to read her story.) You can also click on the YouTube video of the Mac/PC ads that inflame the computer wars to a new level of frenzy.

Honors college girls can keep their PCs. Dumb college guys love Macs.

Let’s just start this argument by going to the source of the problem.  All of this acrimony in the technology world has come down to one single act: Bill Gates stealing Macintosh ideas and making his own company.

Is that the truth? I don’t know, but it certainly could be.  I’d just like everyone to know that the PC and the Windows operating system were made to imitate the Macintosh.

I have a PowerBook G4 by Macintosh.  It is a wonderful computer that I prefer way beyond any of my friends’ PCs and the Gateway computer I have at home.  And there is really one single reason why I love my Mac so much: ease.  The ease to open a program, find a file, go on the internet, get my email, compile music, arrange pictures and keep my schedule organized.

I’m not a photographer, not a movie editor and definitely not a musician, but if I wanted to be all those things, I could be with my Mac.  Fun and useful programs are pre-loaded on my Mac unlike PCs where you have to buy something like Adobe Photoshop or even the Windows operating system. 

Now as for regular computing applications, I purchased Microsoft Office for Mac, which comes with Word, Excel, Power Point and Entourage for e-mail, all for $150.  I bought these programs because I’ve grown up with them throughout my life, but a document-processing program comes with the Mac.

All these videos going around the Internet that totally bash Macintosh are just bogus propaganda made for the purpose of getting people to buy more PCs.  Nothing goes wrong with programs and they don’t just vanish like some people seem to think.  All programs run smoothly as the commercials say. Mac is easily compatible with plenty of programs, gizmos and gadgets.

Plus there IS a right click! Not many people know it, but you can right click and have the ease of looking up your synonyms on Word without having to go to your toolbars.  In order to right click on a Mac notebook, you buy a mouse that has a right click function.  PCs wouldn’t be able to right click if they didn’t have a mouse either.  Plus if you are without a mouse, all you have to do is hold down the control (CTRL) button and click away.

Another great thing about Apple computers is that they can multitask as no other computer can.  My Mac doesn’t slow down just because I’m on the Internet, working on a Power Point, talking to my friends on AIM, listening to music and writing a paper and then I want to open up my e-mail account, too.

It is a fact that not many Mac viruses are running around wild on the Internet these days, but even if there were, I would feel safe with my Mac.  It has a firewall that blocks all Internet viruses.  I mean I want what every dumb college guy wants: a way to keep your computer safe while you’re checking your favorite porn sites late at night.  No one want to get caught looking at porn because he got a virus the next day.  My computer isn’t susceptible to Internet STDs that will embarrass me the morning after.

Honestly, a Mac is just like a PC.  Don’t knock it until you try it. Files are easier to find, programs don’t experience errors that you have to tell the company about and they just look cooler.  So go ahead: feel free to chat up girls on AIM, Facebook stalk people and listen to your favorite Bob Marley song, while looking at the pictures from last week’s party and actually trying to write a paper...all at the same time! If you want a fast, easily operated computer that makes you look smart, this ones for you, you dumb college guy.