[lbo-talk] I Hate Macs

[Tim Francis-Wright]

Colin Brace wrote:
> I hate Macs
> 
> Charlie Brooker
> Monday February 5, 2007
> The Guardian
> 
> PCs are the ramshackle computers of the people. You can build your own
> from scratch, then customise it into oblivion. Sometimes you have to
> slap it to make it work properly, just like the Tardis (Doctor Who,
> incidentally, would definitely use a PC). PCs have charm; Macs ooze
> pretension. When I sit down to use a Mac, the first thing I think is,
> "I hate Macs", and then I think, "Why has this rubbish aspirational
> ornament only got one mouse button?" Losing that second mouse button
> feels like losing a limb. 

Oh, please.  Any recent Mac lets you use a two-button mouse if you want.
Just plug it into the USB port.  Was that so hard?

And I submit that if the TARDIS were to use a computer, it would
run on CP/M.

--tim f-w