Are Mac's really faster?

[Bitmap Frogs]

Viper1 said:

Bitmap Frogs said:

Irrational? Depends on how much you value your time. You are being imbecilic ignoring the cost of opportunity. Learning something takes time and possibly money. Choices, choices... spend time and effort learning the innards of computing and windows or practicing my editing skills so my social and socio-economic status improves. It's exactly the same with the car. You have the choice to either become a half-assed grease monkey or working up the... how they call it... oh yeah, the greasy pole.

Considering an average 3-year lifespan for the computer and assuming a 1.000$ apple overprice, it comes off as 300$ per year. However increasing your knowledge on your actual field of work will yield more than 300$/year. Of course for people working within certain IT environments both interests overlap, but that's a small subset of the population.

Interestingly (and this is anecdotal evidence I know) many of the people I know who chose macs did so because they just "work" and can focus on the actual tasks at hand, rather than on the tool they are using to perform such tasks.

You are operating under a very narrow mindset and that hurts your perspectives on issues like this one.

Now you are suggesting that the time afforded to learn about your expensive investment is wasted because you could be using that time to learn more about your career field?   Do you have no hobbies?  Do you have any friends?  Do you spend every waking hour of your life investing it under the course of furthering your knowledge in your set career field?  Narrow focus, indeed.

 

How sad it must be.   To distill yourself down to one knowledgeable topic.   Such limitations remind me of robots and their dedicated tasks to do just one thing in their existence such as vehicle assembly.   Why is it wrong to become knowledgeable in many fields?  

 

That's the key, why bother to become a half-assed IT assistant when there's so many wondrous things to do in life?

That's why macs are popular. They allow people to focus on what's important. Which by the way, already was covered in the "cost of opportunity" but since you appear to ignore what it is you just ran with what I posted. Maybe you should spend less time learning how to fiddle with Window's registry and more reading books.