It’s been three months since I went a bit wrong and tracked down those responsible for those god awful 3 Mobile adverts. Rather than being fed a biscuit and told to calm down, the internet rallied to my angry shouting, spread the thing far and wide – (thanks b3ta and PopBitch, where were you Holy Moly, eh?!) and while I cant really claim responsibility (although I do at parties), the adverts were soon gone from our screen.
The ad break has been relatively hate free recently. Pooing at Paul’s, and opera singing comparison websites are fine by me. Until…. Windows 7.
I’m not a Mac fanboy. I’m writing this on a HP laptop. I may have an iPhone, but that’s because I’m a twat – not a mac-fan. I am quite against the smug chumminess and condescending elitism that comes off the average Apple user like a bad smell. I don’t mind Windows. It does the job.
But these new Windows adverts may force me to bite the bullet and spunk too much cash on a piece of white plastic and brushed aluminum. You know why? Because Windows 7 WAS NOT YOUR IDEA.
The one that grates on me most is the ad where Crystal has a thought right in the back of a taxi. Imagine! She thought that using a computer should be simpler. So she told Microsoft – and they did it! They made a new taskbar just for her and her hateful nails-down-blackboard-plummy-voice.
NO, CRYSTAL! YOU ARE WRONG! The creation of software as big as an operating system is a massive, collaborative effort! Designers, coders, user interface experts, managers, right down to the tea-lady – they all play their part. You, Crystal – you and your voice – had NOTHING to do with it. YOU ARE DELUDED.
Why would Microsoft (or Crispin Porter and Bogusky agency) advertise in this way? Do they truly expect us to believe that they listen to individual idiots and then implement their ideas? What do you take us for? What if Crystal had wanted her computer to smell of cookies? What if she’d wanted Windows to play an episode of The Gilmore Girls automatically on start up?
Would they have listened then?
No. They wouldn’t have listened.
It is simultaneously an insult to my and your intelligence – and to the hard working code-monkeys at Microsoft who put the whole thing together. If some coder in khaki trousers and a a light blue shirt had told me that he had the idea that by using some bit of binary magic he could cut down start up time by 20% and Microsoft listened and that about 0.0001% of Windows 7 was his idea, I’d be quite happy. Instead we have an unending parade of smugness.
Bah!
It’s not just Crystal either – there’s Ramin, the gym-frequenting self-proclaimed genius – a man who has the most punchable face in advertising since ‘Micky’ crawled out from under a rock made of dicks.
‘I’m gonna walk away with my genius now’. Yeah – walk away. Hope you trip over and your laptop ends up impaling you, somehow.
Anyway, to make myself feel better, I’ve noticed that if you put a twitter message out mentioning ‘Crispin Porter & Bogusky’ or a combination thereof it appears on their site’s frontpage. So you can join me in calling them childish names.
I’m a PC – and the Windows 7 adverts are shit.
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*spots knitted character in cab*
“But these new Windows adverts may force me to bite the bullet and spunk too much cash on a piece of white plastic and brushed aluminum.”
Why do people think Windows is a computer? Install Linux if you’ve had enough of filling Bill’s pockets or you’re fed up with his company’s stinking adverts. Much cheaper than shelling out a fortune for the underpowered yet massively overpriced mid-range PC that is the Apple.
They’re a bit shit, but they aren’t as high on the hatometer as IWantToStealYourGold.com
PS-Apples is shit.
My Mac is lovely yet I don’t feel the urge to brag about its benefits in comparison to all the PCs I’ve suffered.
I wonder why that is, psychologically speaking…
That ‘I’m a PC’ bit at the end is odd. Because she isn’t, and even if she were, are they implying they only listen to PCs and not users? Pretty successful way of patting yourself on the back there.
But where are the ‘windows vista was my fault’ ads eh?
The ‘I’m A PC’ thing came from Apple’s weird ‘I’m a Mac / I’m a PC’ ads that came out a couple of years ago. They were weird because a.) a Mac is a PC and b.) they claimed PCs were for boring stuff and Macs were for fun stuff. I’ve never considered Adobe Fireworks or Coral Draw fun, personally, but I did have a hell of a fun time playing Bioshock on my boring, fuddy-duddy old PC.
Rocket man still missing…..
I’ve used Linux. It’s OK if you’re living in a bit of bubble. But if you want to use normal software without a hassle and open things emailed to you then it has to be Windows or Mac OS.
I’m not clever enough for Linux.
The new imac though…..quad core, 16 gig of ram, 2 tb hard drive….
*spurts*
I had a feeling that it was there where they came from, but it is just even more odd. Nicking a tagline to advertise a rival’s product could backfire, and here it is just tacked on the end. It is completely without context in this advert, which underlines its redundancy.
Or is it just me?
I’ve heard this new Windows 7 fixes the shit that was Vista. If they had any scruples, Microsoft would offer Windows 7 to Vista users for free. That, and an apology for the abortion that it was.
Of course, I don’t expect computer megacorporations such as Microsoft, Sony, HP or Apple to issue apologies. Or free things.
Indeed NC, they didn’t get to be the multinational corporate giants that they are now by dooing mmerchandising of any sort, did they?
Sky news now relying on Tweets…
I know it’s not popular to say so, but Vista – well, it was alright wasn’t it? Mine’s never crashed, and I have a history of electronics suiciding whenever I enter the room. I mean it asked you if you were sure you wanted to do that too often, but that’s about it really, otherwise it seems fine.
I have Vista on my new-ish PC. It’s fucking dreadful, Word doesn’t transfer between Vista and XP, which has almost resulted on me taking on the office naked
maybe it’s because I’m a cheapskate what uses open office…
“The new imac though…..quad core, 16 gig of ram, 2 tb hard drive….”
Wow! And all for more money than other PCs with the same spec! Amazing how they do this*.
*keep pulling the wool over your eyes
I thought imac was for hairy legs
Interceptor – So it’s not constantly asking your permission for things? It’s not forever encountering problems and having to close things? You must have the only decent copy of Vista in the world.
Apple: You’re an individual/unique snowflake/Fucktard who lives in a world of candy coated cupcakes and is distracted by bright colours”.
Microsoft: “We’re a large computer comapany that want all your money” . Now that’s a corporate ethos you can respect.
No, piqued, it is for getting cranes off of skyscrappers…
It won’t catch a virus and die like a PC, Nick’s expensive Mac. And he won’t need to put anti-virus software on it to prevent that eventuality, taking up valuable processing power.
And it’ll look fucking cool!
“No, piqued, it is for getting cranes off of skyscrappers…”
Beat me to it Mel.
The new imac though…..quad core, 16 gig of ram, 2 tb hard drive….
*spurts*
Nick – that made a bit of sick come up.
Anti-virus programs are usually free, take seconds to install and run once a day, not really bothering you. As for not getting viruses, let’s just see, shall we?
I’ve just had a look at this new iMac and was staggered to see the £1,599 model has a 512MB graphics card. In 2009!
*nerd laughter*
Hi Naps!
That’s not my experience of virus software, Nappers.
“I’m afraid we lost about half an hour of the podcast as Napoleons computers crashed…..”
Hello, Clarry!
Swineshead – I run AVG and System Mechanic (or they run themselves, rather). I have no problems with them.
SH: ‘Exported, has it?’
NC: ‘I’m just letting it cool down’
I’ve no idea what mine has, what’s in it, how it works… what I do know it that I can make naked ladies appear on the screen as if by magic
“I’m afraid we lost about half an hour of the podcast as Napoleons computers crashed…..”
Because it’s getting on, Nick. I’ve used it for both fun stuff (Adobe Photoshop) AND boring stuff (Call Of Duty 4). Once I get my new one next year, it won’t be breaking down. I’m going for a Novatech Annihilator – a machine that literally pisses 5000 mph, molten iron piss at your pitiful little Mac.
Anyway, what are you trying to imply? That Macs never crash? That’s bullshit. That they never break down? Again, bullshit – unless you’re still using an Apple II, are you?
*scoffs at Nick’s blinkers*
SH: ‘Exported, has it?’
NC: ‘I’m just letting it cool down’
ahahahahhahahaha
So, erm, cocks anyone?
This mac/pc war is so 80s.
Mine is old too, has never broken down, NEVER EVER.
“SH: ‘Exported, has it?’
NC: ‘I’m just letting it cool down’
This will keep me giggling all week….
At the top it says that the last comment was comment #77994. Are you giving a prize away for the 100,000th comment? Will all glitter and ticker tape fly in the face of that commenter?
SO that’s 22,006 comments away. If there’s an average of say 100 comments day, this will happen in about 220 day’s time. I make that July 3rd 2010…
78,003?! It might be July 2nd already.
Impeccable mathematics Clarry – gives me some time to think on a prize.
Prizes SH! Remember?
Yes, but Nick, Nick, Nick. Macs don’t do half the amount of things PCs do, d’you see? Mine’s started to kick the bucket because I’ve asked more of it. Your weak, pathetic little computer chugs along because you only ask it to go on the internet and edit some songs. See? See the difference?
Carry on telling yourself one brand of PC is somehow superior to all others. We PC users are used to Apple blinkers and Apple cock-sucking as we march into the future using cheaper, faster, better machines than the underpowered dinosaurs you wank over.
How about an evening out with some of the WWM stalwarts, you pay
How come there were no prizes for the seven thousandth comment? Or the sixth?
“Apple cock-sucking?”
*checks applications folder*
Sorry, seventy seven thousandth.
Jesus!
It’s not that you can’t get a virus on a Mac,it’s the fact that most virus writers write them for IBM comapatible OS’s, in particular Windows.
Now I have been to Tesco’s and on Monday i was pleased with my purchase of 160 PG Tips for 3.00. Imagine my dismay when I found 240 PG tips for 2.42 in another Tesco’s today.
Yep those Windows 7 adds are bad. If they are followed by that t-mobile one and Josh’s band one begins to wonder if the digital revolution is worth it.
Really, Piqued? That sounds like a brillyunt prize…
I would settle for an orange, a piece of string and a shilling.
That free text messages on gets on my tits….
Nap – Yes. Seventy eight thousand comments, on here. I think 100,000 comments is a good round number to commemorate.
SH/Nap/P – Does this make you all proud?
Is the Josh’s band one where the girl goes, ‘Listen to this’, and then sort of farts out some noise over a band playing some music. If so, I heartily agree.
As for finding PG Tips cheaper, that’ll be an offer just starting, DINLT. That or what they’ve been banging on about on Watchdog about multi-packs.
At my TESCO, you can get a 12.5g pouch of Golden Virginia for £3.06 or a 14g box of Golden Virginia for £3.06. Hopefully, nobody from TESCO is reading this as I feel I’m clawing a tiny bit back off of Alastair Darling by buying those boxes.
Clarry – No. It makes me wonder how many books I could have written instead.
So if it takes an army of monkeys an infinite amount of time to come up with Shakespeare, how long will it take you Nappers?
SH – Can you conjour up some sort of stats, maybe a pie chart indicating the number of comments by each contributor? That way we can see who has wasted the mos.., sorry, contributed most to this ‘ere website.
Clarry, I think I am a clear winner on that one. At least you lot all seem to go off and acheive things. I just sit here pressing F5, the whole day.
*prays that her boss doesn’t read this*
Nap..GV 12.5 is 2.97 at my local tesco. They do not have the 14g box. My local newsagent doees though and it is 3.15. Mind you i seem to get through the 14g quicker than 12.5 g.
I don’t think I could come up with Shakespeare regardless of how much time I had, Mel. Possibly Andy McNabb … or at a pinch, Dan Brown.
Mel – I don’t know who I think the clear winner is. All I know is i’ve spent the last 2.5 years reading and commenting and also spend all day pressing F5 in case anyone else has written anything.
I remember one day we swapped tips on how to read WWM all day in the most inconspicuous manner. SOmeone suggested cutting and pasting it into a word document, but I still go for the window-minimised-to-just-enough-to-read-one-comment-at-a-time techinique.
DINLT – There appear to be discrepancies in the prices of goods from one TESCO to the next. You’d think someone would have pointed this out by now, wouldn’t you?
“If I had free texts for life, I’d organise a world tour”
Fuck off , right off!
Also how would you account for people such as Pilch, who might not be here everyday, but then can have a splurge of 100+ comments a day, in a pitching frenzy?
Well, that is true I have been here shorter amounts of time.
Do you think I could have come up with shakespeare in that time?
Oh
We should all on a specified day, go to our local tesco, and ascertain the price of a random product that we have pre selected, like a jar of marmite or something. We then report back the prices and draw up a chart of the price fluctuations by region.
Clarry – Or about a million, like last Friday. They were all still at it at 3 in the morning.
My favourite is:
Boy: If I had unlimited free texts, I’d text my gran …
Girl: (Guffawing) Fffn! Whaaa …?
Boy: … and thank her for all the Christmas presents she’s sent me.
Girl: HA HA HA HA HA!
Has that girl had a brain injury?
Poor old Pilch… he makes me laugh. It’s like an actual addiction or something. ‘My name is Pilchard and I am addicted to pitching.’
It’s in the post Pilch
I like to imagine the world has turned into grey crumbs, like off of that C02 advert, coz you’re on WWM instead of saving the world Mel.
And where did Josh’s band get that bus from?
DINLT – can you get a different website for that then? maybe one called boredandbrokeintesco.com?
Shh, Clarry. By day I do that, but by night I am a mild mannered commenter on WWM.
That fuck with his band is the worst thing I’ve ever seen with my own two eyes, and I’ve seen some bloody awful things in my 40 years. I’d rather re-live the shit and blood filled hours on a death ward than see that curly-mopped pig gland, even for a nano second, on his meat bus with all his ‘mates’
Don’t get me started on their own brand baked beans Mel. They have fluctuated between 28p and 42p. Also the current crop of tins do not have the ring pull. Price does not seem to play a apart in this because I have paid 42p for a non ring pull and 28p for a ring pull. (I am assuming that the ring pull is the more technically advanced tin and thus might be more expensive).
you know, I live in Camden Town, and every evening I walk home past about 12 pubs, all with exactly that kind of shitfuck band on. I bet he thinks he’s creative, the fucking cockpiece. (I bet he uses an Apple as well…)
JOSH!!!
Heaven help humanity, Josh!
What sort of prick-name is that? It even sounds like a liquefied organ falling out of an adult nappy and hitting the ward floor
Nick – apparently jetman has ditched into the sea
*wakes up suddenly*
*stumbles in, blinking contacts back into eye*
whadidimiss? wha?
Yes Mel, that was an hour ago…
I wish somebody would mention to the army of young ‘uns around here that a Thundercats t-shirt + stupid trousers around your ankles + indoor shoes + winter in Yorkshire = hypothermia.
AND GET YOUR FUCKING HAIR CUT!
…to say nothing of their kids
Piqued – I’m gonna slide it in, right to the top. I’m gonna slide it in, I ain’t never gonna stop. I’m gonna slide it in, right to the top. I’m gonna slide it in, slide it in, slide it in, slide it in … right to the top bay-yay-yay-bee …
I think that’s what I overheard Dr. Rowan Williams saying on a recent visit to Canterbury Cathedral.
Hey, I could give up pitching whenever I wanted, no problem.
Which gives me an idea for a great new show…
That sounds like filth nappers.
I have just had it confirmed that I am on my way to Copenhagen. They have messed me about for nearly 2 weeks over this. Harrumph
Don’t blame me, Mel. Blame Dr. Rowan Williams.
Oh I see, It’s HIM that makes the rules is it?
Aaah, Whitesnake. How I used to enjoy looking for the hidden lady parts on their dreadful albums
*wakes uo again*
whitesnake?
hawkwind, brother.
I used to think that I’d look exactly like David Coverdale when I grew up. Amazing how wrong you can be …
Afternoon.
It’ll be busy in Copenhagen, Mel. There’s some kind of big conference.
btw i’m a pc. and i have an iphone but having struggled with apple all through my university career (admittedly some time ago now) i think they’re a bit shit.
also who wants one button to press when you can have two? idiots, that’s who.
and i have vista. it’s configurated to look like XP and i’ve not had a day’s bother with it.
thanks. back to my nap.
I’m seeing The Hawkwinds in December as usual, I’ve seen them more time than I’ve had hot dinners
I’m seeing Andy Grant in Poole next week, oh yes….
Really Pilch? you mena I’ve picked the wrong time of year to go AGAIN?
Buggrit
Breeks – They’re not shit, just overpriced for their miserable spec. They look nice, mind. Sadly, you’re paying for Aston Martin looks with a Ford Mondeo under the bonnet. If they brought the price down by £500, they’d be a very nice mid-range PC.
Where’s Pilchard been talking, Mel?
*fails to find Pilchard*
I’m having a special “driving home coffee”
at 4.24 nappers
i like my vaio. it’s handsome like an apple but it works. and has aces screen. and other important shit like that. and it’s red.
You mean Piqued, Mel?
By the way, none of you are seeing Queensryche, Rat or The Quireboys in the space of two days, NONE OF YOU.
*loses*
No, I mean Pilchard Nappers:
pilchard7
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It’ll be busy in Copenhagen, Mel. There’s some kind of big conference.
Unless he is sending me secret massages that only I can see? In public. In the Comments Section of a popular TV review blog.
Oh, I’ve got him. My brain must have been filtering him out for some reason.
Sorry about that.
Ahem, obviously, I don’t mean massages either. That was a slightly freudian typo.
Sorry Pilch
*red face*
Copenhagen, Massages…..hmmmmmmm!
*listens to this on a loop and worries about own mental health*
i have my uke out and am playing along.*
*a bit
*in my brainz.
DINLT – I live in amsterdam. If you are imlplying what I think you are implying, why couldn’t I just do that from home?
Secret massages? That explains a lot. I thought I was starting to get a degenerative neural disease, or just reacting to all the drugs that MI5 have been adding to my water supply. (Yeah, yeah, I’ve seen them, with their pathetic, wouldn’t-fool-anyone, fake “Thames Water” van. Amateurs.)
For what it’s worth (ie nothing), like most people I run the OS that came with the computer I bought, which I bought because it was the best I could get for the money at the time I needed it. So I have XP on my desktop, which is flaky and virus-prone, and Vista on my laptop, which is absolutely fine. It’s whatever Dell gives you for your 300 quid on the day that you’re fool enough topart with it.
IMO the bad-mouthing that Vista got was a back-justification for the perplexing fact that big companies didn’t upgrade to it. Most “enterprises” are still running XP, having spent a whole bunch of money on it, not least on securing it at the desktop. Windows 7’s success is riding on corporate take-up: most consumers will only upgrade by default when they buy a new machine.
The reason there’s a global consumer ad campaign (with localised variants of the taxi woman etc) is part of a (possibly forlorn) hope that it’ll rub off on CTOs, who’ll suddenly decide that it’d be shameful to carry on offering a generation of technology at work that’s inferior to what their staff have at home. But guess what? CTOs don’t care about that – and they’re right not to. Staff have had more personal computing power (and storage, and bandwidth) at home and in their pockets for years now. And corporate applications are moving towards web-based apps all the time, and the frickin cloud (which all adds up to this year’s name for “thin client” or “time-sharing” for the rilly rilly, like, old dudes), so they’re not particularly interested in tweaks at the UI, which is all W7 seems to offer. Also, from the point of view of training and job flexibility, they get really annoyed at cosmetic changes to the UI – look at the dismally low take-up of the most recent versions of Word, which diverge radically from early versions and wreck productivity as a result.
Okay, and now it’s back to the puns.
Oh man! Don’t you just hate it when work gets in the way of WWM?! I wanted to join in with the PC/Mac fun and the advert haters. But now you’ve all gone and I’m here till midnight. Hello Clarry!
Anyone want a pretzel? *offer snacks to stuffed animals disturbingly arranged around dinner table*
I’m still here, JRME – but I’m being very boring, as you can see.
*dips pretzel in spilled beer*
I thought that was very interesting, Pilch! I have often wondered why things like Windows were advertised cos, like you said, people just buy whatever they’re given on the computer, and hardcore techies probably wouldn’t touch Windows with a bargepole. Could it just be brand reinforcement? Incidentally, do Microsoft now own the term PC or something? How BLOODY dare they.
Er, I don’t think you’re supposed to take the advert literally. I think the adverts coyly points at her and calls her an idiot. It’s basically suggesting what you’ve just said.
The overall point of the advert is that Windows is now even easier to use then ever, even for people that dumb.
What annoys me about this advert is that windows is never that simple. Even while typing this message I’ve had three different error messages and a pop up (facebook pictures uploader won’t work, keep getting some weird error message on my media files and my media monkey keeps crashing).
I’m a PC: I’m stupp
idly complicated to use , I always break and the only person who can fix me is some smug goateed wanker.
I think you’ve given the ad too much credit. No advert would be stupid enough to unironically call its own punter an idiot, it defies any marketing theory.
JRME, my memory is that IBM got everyone using the term “PC” after their breakthrough IBM PC (breakthrough in the sense of “actually selling quite a few, even though the mainframe sales organisation thought it was a toy”). For many years “PC” meant IBM’s x86-based architecture, which they open-licensed to imitators; and “IBM clone” was the alternative name for “PC”. Nappers likes to make the point that PC just means “personal computer” and that it should no longer (and probably shouldn’t have ever been) used to designate one particular strain of hardware. Since the whole business split into clients and servers, people are in any case more likely to talk about “wintel” (meaning Windows + Intel) for the current generations of this platform.
Microsoft have never owned the term PC, but, as people on this thread are pointing out, they have embraced it as a way of countering Apple’s using it as a derogatory term. Apple has never used the x86 architecture or its descendants, and has never licensed anyone cloning its own architecture – in fact it has successfully sued companies that have tried.
What Microsoft did that was smart (OR: what IBM dumbly let them do) was bundle the DOS operating system on the IBM PC and let them keep the intellectual property and revenues. When it popped up on an IBM PC it was called PC-DOS; when you bought it with a clone it was called MS-DOS. DOS eventually begat Windows.
Without wishing to get sued myself, it’s also my memory that the founders of Microsoft didn’t write DOS, but bought it from somebody else. On a personal note, I remember that before Windows came along, I used a very neat program called Frameworks II, which ran other programs on your PC inside boxes on the screen it called “frames”. Windows 1.0 was very much inferior to Frameworks II. But there you go.
For balance, I should mention the well-worn fact that One Of The Steves saw an early WIMP (windows, icons, mouse, pointer) system running at Xerox PARC while having a wander around, and they just let him walk out with the idea. ALEDGEDDLY, or however it’s spelled.
I’m sorry I wrote all that boring shit ^^^ I don’t know what came over me.
Ask me about my Microwriter collection – go on.
*changes into baggier cardie*
Pilch, stop it. The apologies, I mean, not the info-splurge. It’s WWM After Hours: anything goes. I assume. *tightens clamps*
Anyway, I found that genuinely interesting, reminded me of my poor alive daddy slaving away over recalcitrant PCs in the early ’90s. I picked up a bit of DOS, too. I occasionally chkdsk when I’m feeling nostalgically frisky.
I think you’ve given the ad too much credit. No advert would be stupid enough to unironically call its own punter an idiot, it defies any marketing theory.
Read that in The Idiot’s Guide to Marketing Theory.
My laptop won’t do questions marks.
Macs are shit though, aren’t they. Don’t see many being used for any really manly computing.
DOS was so much fun. Batch files…yea!
Also, you tended to look very clever as you showed someone a C:> and typed in, (to them anyway) unintelligble commands. Dir /w would make you look like a genius.
What’s ‘manly computing’?
Tree-felling on a Dell home PC?
Logging?
Very good Dave. Thanks for calling me an idiot yesterday, by the way. Nice to have you back.
Logging. LOGGING!
*BSOD*
I didn’t call anyone an idiot, Swineshead. It’s good to be back.
Where have you been Dave? Have you got a job yet?
(P.S I said good morning over the page)
Womenly computing = internet shopping, pictures of shoes, shoes and shoes, recipe sites and talking about relationships and gossip, via skpe, email, msn.
I Dave, good to see you again. I did ask after you, often.
Is manly computing pron?
If so boobies look the same on a mac, classier actually…
That should have read “Hi Dave”
I work! Got the day off today because I planned to move into my new dwelling over the weekend. Since I’m already here and I have no money until tomorrow, I’m going to annoy WWM in my pants or a whole five hours.
I also concur Pilch, that was interesting..
Good for you Dave, a job and a place of your own. Where you can sit in your pants all day, ’til your heart’s content. Eating dairylea. And wanking in the dark.
Dairylea’s quite soothing on ‘cauliflower head’.
*sicks*
Hi Dave, congrats on the job.
What you doing?
“Womenly computing = internet shopping, pictures of shoes, shoes and shoes, recipe sites and talking about relationships and gossip, via skpe, email, msn.” Exactly. Or anything on the Client-side of a network, basically.
Manly computing=Server-side wrestling with major computing concepts, having to take a screwdriver to a something, Low-level coding, Linux, Cloning drive so when one fucks up you can just bung another one in.
Basically, knowing what the fuck it up.
“It is simultaneously an insult to my and your intelligence – and to the hard working code-monkeys at Microsoft who put the whole thing together.”
Don’t worry – a visual, sticky ‘task-bar’ & “All Apps Windows” view wasn’t their idea either. Like most of Windows they stole them from Apple.
I doubt you’ll feel the MacBook’s all that expensive once you’ve realised the battery doesn’t need replacing every 900 hours!
McD
*high fives McDave*