What did you think of the Joshua Kors article?

I don't like macs, but it is for established reasons. I accept they work, and that people like them now. I just really don't like the feel of using them.

I have to admit this must be one of the most technologically ignorant, and I know some utter idiots when it comes to this sort of topic.

I think the boy is a blundering idiot. Do the math; when you're going to a new machine/OS that you don't know, you DO YOUR HOMEWORK FIRST!

Idiotism #1: My iMac and I got off on the wrong foot. Turns out there's a video camera embedded in the screen, and before I could boot her up for the very first time, she wanted to take my picture. For "identity purposes," she said. I stumbled to the bathroom, brushed my hair (and my teeth), exchanged my raggedy Raiders t-shirt for a professionally ironed button-up and returned to my desk, smirking at the turn of events. My old PC didn't care if I called the Pentagon in my bathrobe. My iMac apparently had registered with Match.com.

Well, I never had to have my photo taken when I first booted my iMac...?

Idiotism #2: "I had an article to write, but the only word processor I could find on my iMac was TextEdit, essentially a stripped-down version of Notepad. The program had an excellent array of font options, like "Bigger" and "Smaller."

Yes, idiot. What were you expecting Mac Office to be installed on your wonder-machine? MS Windows doesn't come with MS Office installed, it simply comes with Wordpad and Notepad. Just like OS X comes with TextEdit. Again, if you had done your homework...

Idiotism #3 (while basically talking about how blind he is) I found the screen settings and slid the resolution bar down one notch. Suddenly everything was fuzzy. The blood vessels in my eyes began to constrict again.

Have you not tried to do this on a Windows machine? Last time I knew, when you went to a lower screen resolution than the maximum of that of your display in WINDOWS, it does the SAME THING...blurry/fuzzy.

Idiotism #4 The final straw came when Mac's Firefox took me to my website. To my horror, all the spacing was askew, the graphics tossed left and right like the wreckage of a hurricane. I asked myself: As a web designer, how can I design web pages when I can't see what 90 percent of my viewers are seeing?

Let me re-phrase what his last sentence should have read:

"As a web designer I should have checked all along at the sites I maintain to make sure the viewing was 100% compatible with the most-used major browsers, (i.e. IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, etc) therefore preventing this problem all together!"

Idiotism #5: "For a second I thought, well, I could load Parallels, the Mac OS program that allows you to run Windows applications on your iMac. But that plan was squashed fast. Before I could complete Parallels' installation, it asked for a copy of the Windows CD. I shook my head in disbelief: where the hell am I going to get a copy of the Windows CD? And if I need Windows to perform basic functions, why don't I just get a PC with Windows already installed?"

Well, if you had done your homework, you would have realized JUST HOW PARALLELS FUNCTIONED! All the application IS is a "Virtual Machine" to run within the Mac OS. Just like any VPC for Windows, you STILL need the operating system CD/DVD as you need to install that OS.

Idiotism #6: (while talking about software that "wouldn't work with OS X) "Neither did Ipswitch FTP, my file-uploader."

You're right! Would you like a cookie? Or even better...!...how about "FileZilla FTP" for OS X...which is....ohhhh...FREE???

IN THE END, we know that this is one person that bought it simply because he figured "everyone else uses a Mac for this stuff, I should too!". Not doing ANY research on any of this stuff BEFORE the purchase. Do you buy a new car without researching it first? No. Do you walk into the store and buy a new surround sound system within the first 30 second of seeing it for the FIRST TIME? No. You don't know anything about it.

Sadly....this man is reporting for the pentagon.....

R~