I am not stating that because I am a Mac user now.
I am stating that because PCs SUCK. And I am probably a little bias because I am a Mac user now.
Let me describe to you the battle I go through everyday with this piece of technology called the PC:
Belle arrives at office, turns on computer. She waits for the computer to start up, and she is enjoying her morning coffee while waiting. After about a minute and two sips of coffee, the screen to enter her password appears. She types in the password, and waits again. She continues to enjoy her coffee. After about another minute, the desktop screen loads up. But she has to wait for at least two minutes for the computer to be ready for use. That is fine, since she is still enjoying her coffee.
After two minutes, she tries to open her Outlook. She clicks on the icon and but nothing happens. She figures it will take a while to load, so she opens the internet explorer. Nothing happens also. By now, she has wasted about five minutes waiting for her computer to be ready. Now Belle, contrary to popular belief, is a very busy girl and hates wasting her time at work. If she is to waste her time at work, good food or some serious goofing off would better be involved.
So five minutes have passed since she plopped her tush at her desk, and she has done nothing so far but wait and drink coffee. The caffeine does not help because right now Belle is getting very agitated and about to make the computer work faster by banging the side of the PC. Thankfully internet explorer loads up and she is able to check her personal email. About the same time, Outlook finally loads too and now she can check her work email. Crisis averted. Or so she thinks.
While trying to switch between windows, Outlook to Explorer, to Microsoft Excel, to MSN (used to discuss work issues with her coworkers), Belle also has to wait. There is no smooth transition between windows, which means she has to wait. Again. Belle resists the urge to scream. All this waiting equals to time wasted and nothing annoys Belle more at the work place than time wasted over nothing.
Sometime during the day, Belle is working on her monthly report which includes a lot of data entry and anaylsing it. Suddenly a small window pops up and she accidentally hits enter, because the next step in her data entry is to hit enter, and the stupid small window pops up unannounced and unexpectedly she cannot stop her finger from hitting the enter button until it is too late. She sits in horror as one by one, her running programs closes without any prompt to save. The computer is now restarting. Belle has to get some coffee to calm herself.
When she comes back five minutes later, the computer is still restarting. She sits back at her desk, sips her coffee and thinks of happy things while waiting for the vicious cycle to start all over again.
Now, let’s compare what Belle goes through everyday when working on her Apple iBook. Belle presses the power button, and in 10 seconds (or even less) the screen comes up for Belle to enter her username and password. After doing so, it takes another 10 seconds (or even less) for the desktop screen to load, and within mere seconds, she can open as many programs as she wants and starts working on whatever it is that needs working. Let’s count how long Belle has to wait. And compare that to the time it takes to operate a PC.
Belle easily opens and closes windows, changing between Safari, Office, Excel, Quicktime, iTunes, MSN, Skype, and the list goes on…. No time wasted on waiting. When a Mac needs updating for its software, it does so in the most polite way. There is still a small window popping out of nowhere, but it does not make itself so prominent that you are spared of the consequences of hitting the enter button too fast. Now, isn’t that very thoughtful of the Apple folks?
Now, let’s say you’re a manager of a company of 20 staff, and you all use PCs. They’ll be wasting at least 5 minutes everyday waiting for the stupid thing to load. Now, let’s calculate 5 minutes per person, in a company of 20 people. ONE HUNDRED MINUTES. AT LEAST. PER DAY. Sounds like a lot of time lost over nothing. Compare that to Mac. 10 seconds and 20 staff. See the difference?
I know I should appreciate PC because I would not be writing this right now in this media had it not been invented, but by God, can they PLEASE work on its efficiency? If Steve Jobs can do it with Mac, why can’t the others do the same? (One answer and I’m sticking to it: Steve Jobs is a super genius). So yes, if I were ruler of the Universe, I would get rid of all PCs and replace them with Mac. I’d take care of those war things going on in the Middle East first (I have my priorities), but after that, it’s the PCs I’d be waging war against.
PS: Those who are more computer literate than I am, you are free to comment but do not judge my decision to switch to Mac. And don’t tell me about the features I can use to make my PC go faster or whatever, because that’s not the point. The point is, the PC should work as fast as Mac does without any additional thing that I have to do to make it happen.
