blech:
posted on 2003/08/26 09:23
John Gruber on recommending computers, the Good Times hoax, Outlook, CTOs, and Windows.
jerakeen:
I hate being asked to recommend a computer. Until recently, people from work kept asking me, so I always pointed them at Dell. Because I hated them. Or something. But soreiously, folks, I don't think I'd recommend a mac to anyone, actually.
blech:
Fuck that. I wish I'd told my parents to get an iMac.
jerakeen:
not because they're not good, but because people expect to be able to use windows stuff, and don't think about it.
blech:
I don't think my parents do enough to really miss anything.
Oh, they play Freecell a lot. Hrmn.
jerakeen:
I possibly just have more computer-savvy parents than most people, but if the first thing I said was 'get a mac', my mother would say 'no, no, windows machine, fule!'. Or something slightly less polite.
blech:
Anyway, we seem to be debating the intro, not the meat of the article, which as jerakeen pointed out, is similar to that of the (referenced) I, Cringley piece last week or so.
jerakeen:
Interesting difference between Gruber's 'windows is really hard to admin and thus IT people like it because it boosts their manpower' and Cringley's 'linux is really hard to use and administer so IT people like it because....'
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Hey, nice approach. I tried the 'I don't do recommendations' thing for a while, but I spent so long explaining why I didn't, that in the end it's easier to say 'dude! get a dell!' and wander off.
We hate you all. Yes, especially you. Sod off and DIE