Mac Myths

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I’m going to keep this person’s name anonymous for the time being, because I’m sure he’d get flamed out of existence for admitting to believing in these stereotypical myths about Macs.

Allow me to provide a list of reasons why I don’t like macs. If you really want to prove their equality to a Windows fanboy such as me, feel free to demonstrate their debunkery through video. Since your recent conversion to the Dark Side, I suppose even I can give the time of day.

I haven’t switched yet, but here are his seven reasons for not giving the Mac a chance:

  1. The Mac UI is so easy to use, it’s insulting to a power user.

  2. Macs are bad for popular games because few games are made for Mac and they don’t do DirectX.
  3. Most popular software won’t run on a Mac, and there is seldom a good equivalent.
  4. I haven’t seen a mac with more than two screens (Three for a laptop); do they go higher?
  5. Since OSX runs on some sort of *nix base, it can be lent to all the *nix stereotypes.
  6. Macs are more expensive than similarly-spec’d PCs.
  7. Even with all the great advances made in the past few years, one cannot “try before you buy” a Mac

Where do we begin to debunk these theories?