I love my Mac I hate my Mac
Published April 30th, 2009Having recently switching from a PC to a Mac (possibly because of those commercials with the cute Mac guy and the not-very-cute PC guy), I’ve decided I love my Mac. I love it so much, I wish I could take it out for a drink or, perhaps, a moderately expensive dinner.
My question is – why do all of the windows applications for Mac suck so very much? Entourage? Sucks. Not only does it suck, it is occasionally evil. For example, yesterday it deleted ALL OF MY EMAILS. I didn’t ask it to do this, nor did I relish spending an hour going through my recycle bin to try to recreate my in box. Yet, that’s what it did and it isn’t the first time it’s done that. And don’t get me started on the rules and how hard it is to create them and figure out how they work, and forget how it takes forwarded emails with HTML in them and turns them into complete garbage and, basically, how it makes me want to cry on a regular basis.
And where is Expressions for Mac? And Quicken Home & Business? And a new version of Adobe Elements? Oh, but I can totally go into iPhoto and tell it to start recognizing faces and tell me where my pictures were taken based on GPS data and even see where that location is on google maps. That’s way cool – but how about putting some of that energy towards applications that don’t suck?
It’s kind of like dating a guy who’s cute and stupid and then dating a guy who’s average-looking, but very smart. Combining the two would make the perfect man. Luckily, my husband’s perfect (there…that should win me some points).
Kim Williams on June 2, 2009
dang you. now i have even more reasons to be indecisive.
good points… thanks, seriously.
Paige on June 3, 2009
Despite the issues, I really do like my Mac better than my PC.
Gaby on October 21, 2009
I just bought my first mac book pro. And like you I have a love hate relationship with it. I have decided that I will either buy parallels or vmware and install a full version of Windows 7. Reinstall all my important pc software onto that OS. I can’t run some of my business’s software on the os leopard anyway. So splitting my mac into two will give me all the satisfaction I am looking for. Than I’ll have the perfect husband and mac book. LOL