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⌈ Secret Post #3495 ⌋

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Same. I made a secret once that I was sad I didn't have a PC because I couldn't play certain video games, and like half of the comments accused me of being cheap, spoiled, and stupid and were weirdly passive aggressive. Sorry, but I don't have the money to just go out and buy a PC on the spot, and I had to get a Mac for school related reasons and didn't have any other choice. Apparently this makes me a terrible person and "gamer."
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And, if I remember correctly, you never did specify that. Instead, you DID come across as rather snooty and high-brow.

You didn't really help your case.

Sure, the commenters could have been nicer, but you weren't doing yourself any favors, either.

How did I come off as snooty?

And yeah, in hindsight I should of mentioned it somewhere in my secret, that is on me.
I just didn't think I needed to because I didn't expect so many commenters to freak out and assume wild assumptions about me.

Oh, I remember that thread. I think it was probably more that those of us defending anon were seen as snooty by the PC gamers.

As someone who actually uses a Windows PC for artwork, I find the obsession with video games so many PC users have kind of strange. I'm sure I seem snooty about it.

A lot of it is because Apple just doesn't invest in good software/hardware that can handle the various graphics engines and game play engines that games use these days. ESPECIALLY made-for-PC games.

Which is so funny because I KNOW places that actually build and work on games either use Macs exclusively or use a mix of the two. And yet, PCs are the platform that can handle things better, outside of console games.

Well, PCs are relatively cheap, highly modular, and customisable. A customer will repeatedly buy PC components to catch up to the latest tech level.

Macs have a reputation for longevity: an investment which will pay off over time. And they have been used by art schools and film schools for a long time. Artists, designers, and writers will favour the workhorses they learned on in school.

"And they have been used by art schools and film schools for a long time. Artists, designers, and writers will favour the workhorses they learned on in school."

I think this is the crux of it, rather than some kind of monetary investment paying off over time. It's a time investment - it's what you're familiar with. From a monetary perspective, I'm not sure that it does pay off. Higher price point/longevity vs lower price point/more frequent upgrades may actually come out pretty even in the end.

Ha...longevity in the past, maybe. The iMacs at my university were slow pieces of crap. And I still hated using them.

You can get a PC to last a good long time so long as you take care of it. Macs end up being crap BECAUSE of that longevity assumption. And I HATE that in order to repair one, you HAVE to take it to an Apple Store, unless you are lucky in that you have someone who can and even has the specialized tools to do so. That is also a crap move. It is really hard to get those tools cause Apple wants that exclusivity.

Anywho, when you only have one Apple Store in the whole of the city...yuck. PCs are easy to repair and cheaper to boot.

To me? Macs just cost too damn much to be worth it in the long run.

That's not that surprising. Apple's business model has changed over time, and they became an industry standard long enough ago that the reasons they did probably no longer apply.

Also, they did not become an industry standard on the basis of iMacs.

I never implied that about the iMacs. I just used them as an example of crap hardware. God I hated those machines....one even sounded really loud. We stayed away from that one.

anon never specified it but they didn't indicate they were just frivolously spending their money on every mac product on the market either, which is how people were acting. in the end it was still the commenters just assuming shit and then being mean about it -like this secret says people do.

Ah, I remember that secret. Some people were being really dumb about that :/

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