(24 Feburary 2012)
8. I've never just "Lost" my USB drive Data on a PC before!
How many of my class-mates can attest to this line; "Wait?! where is my file?! It just... stopped saving! and won't load anymore!" After working countless hours on that Illustrator or Photoshop file, only to hear from either software that the file cannot be opened because it is not in the right format or has been corrupted! Right when the Critique was on the NEXT DAY!? Or the other cryptic message box "Abort, Try Ignore" BEFORE you get to save a document
9. It Does Right-Click Menu Right
I remember my first time bumbling through the MAC user interface while doing the Visual Communication course in College, after discovering a mouse with only ONE button... and I'm STILL pissed by the memory! Finding out much later that the system settings could be configured to a two-button mouse, has not healed the pain of those wasted hours and painful years of holding a KEYBOARD key while clicking the mouse button, or clicking BOTH mouse buttons JUST to get a menu I've been used to for years. With all due respect Mr. Jobs, copying is NOT always a bad idea.
1. It Has Direct X
I'm a software developer, specifically a video-game developer and, regardless of what we all think of Gates and his cronies at the evil Micro$oft, Direct X is still more intuitive to use than any other par-boiled, half-baked HAL technologies out there. In fact, when I see Direct X, VBScript, Active-scripting in general, COM itself, or any of the many other developer-friendly technologies native to the PC, implemented on a MAC without needing a virtualized environ or a new partition, MAYBE, I'll give MACs a second look, I'll even overlook the right-click travesty, since it can be enabled. Last I checked though, pigs STILL cannot fly, and the sky has never been green since I was born.
