I would like to start off by saying that this is in no way directed towards apple or macs in general. This is just a tale of a general "dummy" that was just too funny not to tell. I in NO WAY want anyone bashing apple because I have seen plenty of Best Buy "geek squad" reps act just as dumb about windows based computers.
So my graphic designer friend is in the market for a new computer and she knows that I build them so she wanted me to come along to get facts instead of hype. ALOT of graphic designers use apples so that is where we went first. So as soon as we walk in we are greeted and asked if we could be helped. She tells the guy that she is torn between a windows based machine and a mac. Immediately he said "oh you dont want a PC" and listed a few legit reasons like viruses and build quality and such. However she mentioned she wasnt sure if she could afford a mac and his outragious response was a "PC" laptop lasts around a year or two where an apple laptop last TWELVE YEARS? My jaw dropped. I said ok, your telling me that you think this laptop will last 12 years? "Have you seen a 12 year old Mac"? I giggled and let him continue. He said that the parts where custom made to be more powerful and outlast PC's. I had to stop him and say "well it looks to me like its just got a standard intel core 2 duo, ddr3 RAM, and an Nvidia 9400m, whats special about these parts?" He just said "apple just makes it different". Ok fair enough. There were other comments that boggled my mind like running windows on this MAC ran TWICE as fast as running windows on a PC with same specs (even though he said it was custom apple parts) and that Linux was ILLEGAL. Ok the linux thing was funny because I asked him if it is still considered a PC if its running linux and his response was "Linux is illegal". We ended up leaving without a shiny new laptop but a HUGE grin on my face. I just had to tell the storry and it makes me wonder how people get hired with this kind of thinking. Like I said, Im not against macs and this is not an anti-mac post but more of an anti-idiot post. Its just sad that people fall for this whether its PC fans or mac fans.
So my graphic designer friend is in the market for a new computer and she knows that I build them so she wanted me to come along to get facts instead of hype. ALOT of graphic designers use apples so that is where we went first. So as soon as we walk in we are greeted and asked if we could be helped. She tells the guy that she is torn between a windows based machine and a mac. Immediately he said "oh you dont want a PC" and listed a few legit reasons like viruses and build quality and such. However she mentioned she wasnt sure if she could afford a mac and his outragious response was a "PC" laptop lasts around a year or two where an apple laptop last TWELVE YEARS? My jaw dropped. I said ok, your telling me that you think this laptop will last 12 years? "Have you seen a 12 year old Mac"? I giggled and let him continue. He said that the parts where custom made to be more powerful and outlast PC's. I had to stop him and say "well it looks to me like its just got a standard intel core 2 duo, ddr3 RAM, and an Nvidia 9400m, whats special about these parts?" He just said "apple just makes it different". Ok fair enough. There were other comments that boggled my mind like running windows on this MAC ran TWICE as fast as running windows on a PC with same specs (even though he said it was custom apple parts) and that Linux was ILLEGAL. Ok the linux thing was funny because I asked him if it is still considered a PC if its running linux and his response was "Linux is illegal". We ended up leaving without a shiny new laptop but a HUGE grin on my face. I just had to tell the storry and it makes me wonder how people get hired with this kind of thinking. Like I said, Im not against macs and this is not an anti-mac post but more of an anti-idiot post. Its just sad that people fall for this whether its PC fans or mac fans.
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