Macwintel

What the fuck?

Ok, so…. It’s been a long time since I rapped at ya, and I know a lot has happened on the macwintel front. I should tell you a lot has happened with me on that front as well. First of all, I bought a black macbook the day after it came out (they only had white ones in the apple flagship store in SOHO the first day, and as I always say… fuck that, white ain’t right). Parallels has come out - that’s pretty cool. Boot camp, equally sweet. I am running it both ways. I also have an intel mac mini. Soon to be pretty useful…
Well here’s the thing with Apple: they make nice looking products, they advertise in a way that maximizes their condescension (much like their users I guess), and they steal shit from their stockholders, and gives it to Jobs, who is a good guy and Gates is a bad guy. Except one of those guys steals from the rich and gives to the poor, and the other, I guess, steals from the rich and gives to himself.

Anyways, besides all that, there is the matter of them releasing products that don’t work and claiming they are awesome. Take my macbook (please). She’s black, like my ladies. She’s beautiful (ibid). And She randomly shuts down. Some are saying it’s a battery issue (it happens, I guess, to a lot of macbook owners…) And if you think it doesn’t happen to you, well… just wait. Mine was fine last week, and today, BAM! randomly and repeatedly. Not so bad if you don’t mind living in constant fucking fear of losing what you’re working on. But then again those condescending mac ads have already told us that PCs are for work and that these guys are for ummm… “being cool” or whatever. Anyways, since her inception I’ve kept pretty good track of her battery’s capabilities, and it seems that they still haven’t fixed the whole “battery always thinking it’s at 0 charge problem” that they had in like, every powerbook ever. Is this related to the random shutdowns? I dunno, since it happens even when plugged in. I know about the battery thing, however because of my somewhat anal keeping track of my battery’s capabilities. Note the somewhat steep dropoff in battery life at the end:

Now I have to get an appointment with an apple “genius.” Of course, if I paid more for “pro care” i could get a faster appointment, since all I paid was for measly apple care (highly recommended because apple’s quality assurance pretty much sucks ass). Here’s another deal: I know it’s a pain in the ass to get apple to actually support their products, even if you pay more for that support, but it’s a real dick move to use that inconvenience to sell another product where they can remove that inconvenience. I mean think about it: If Apple didn’t add the feature of randomly shutting down to their laptops, then I wouldn’t have had to watch my ass by buying apple care. And if apple didn’t add the feature where you have to show up in store to make an appointment for an apple “genius” and then when you show up for that appointment you have to wait an extra hour and a half, then I wouldn’t have to buy pro care. And isn’t that a dick move? HUH STEVE? YOU DICK