Justin Long Was Wrong

So my mac broke down last week. I shut it down in the evening, woke up and tried to power it in, nothing. Went through all the secret button key presses, removed all the RAM and the HDD, did all the secret key presses again, still nothing. I eventually gave in and brought it to a repair shop, where after 5 days I got it back, the fucking tech gave me non-answers and and judging by his oh-so-friendly demeanor clearly I wasn't worth his time, and although the junior tech girl was friendlier she was clearly reading off the diagnostic report. But still, I was a happy chappy in the fact it wasn't the logic board that was broken.

The timing of the Mac breaking couldn't have been better; On Thursday we had a meeting where it was discussed that personal laptops would be banned from work (which I think is a rule that should have been enforced a long time ago). So, back to Windows it was for me. And to be honest, I actually liked it. (Holds up sheild from Apple fanboys).

I know you've probably read and read and read all the articles breaking down Windows and Apple, comparing the two apples to apples (hardy har har!) but these are some of my personal reasons. Strange and iffy as some of them may be.

I don't like the chiclet keyboard. I want to be able to feel each button press as it clicks, the satisfication of finally coming up with the correct parameters or the correct sequence can only be punctuated with the noisy clack of hammering down on the Enter button. To me the chiclet keyboard seems, I dunno, too chic? When I type my fingers do feel like they're typing on air, and I do seem to be less hindered and it may take less effort, but... I still find myself looking for the touch of the old keyboard.

I hear the scoffs of people thinking "Pfft! He doesn't like Mac's because of their keyboard??" Well, functionality. A majority of the applications and tools I use for work and home are built for Windows. And although I can find other programs that can work around or make do, the Windows versions always seem to be the better choice. For example, TOAD. Even though I try to limit it's use as I want to get the hang of doing things through the command line, I do sometimes have to use TOAD. So everytime I have to use it, I have to open VirtualBox to open up my Windows virtual machine. Same thing for DameWare.

The stigma of what it represents. I remember a few years ago, we would joke around about getting a Mac, because it was more expensive, we thought what we were getting was a premium item. All that time we held it in high regard, a purple item so to speak. But when I did finally get it, sure I was impressed, but at the same time, in some ways disappointed. Sometimes it's hard for me to pin exactly what it is, but I definitely feel more at home on a Windows machine.

It's late, I need to play WoW, and that last paragraph was an incoherent waste of space. Btw this post was written on a Macbook.