Things — Are you Mac or are you PC?

9th
May
2009

Are you Mac or are you PC? — a translation

Disclaimer: The content of this text was written by Ottó Oláh in Hungarian. I thought I had to share though. (Updated at 19:44 GMT May 9, 2009, with edits by the original’s author himself.)

Let’s play… Based on your answer to the following 15 questions, I’ll try to guess whether you use a Mac or PC! Linux users can’t play! :-)

When you turn on the computer you don’t sit down in front of it immediately; you make yourself a coffee, wash the dishes, or stop by the bathroom because you know it will take a while for your OS to boot up. (PC)
Instead of shutting down, you always put your laptop to sleep by closing the screen. It gets back on its feet under a few seconds and resumes every app You feel guilty sometimes, so you hit restart. You are surprised by how long you haven’t heard the startup chime. (Mac)
You arrive at meetings with a half-open laptop, and find it a rude prank of your colleagues to close your screen laughing. You open it back up nervously, and blame your colleagues if not everything comes back to life. (PC)
You get a 3 year extended warranty for your new laptop, because a motherboard replacement would cost your family fortune. When your computer reaches schoolkid-age, you don’t have the heart to part with it because everything runs just like when it was new. (Mac)
You pay distinct attention to plug every device into the same USB port each time, or else your computer starts looking for drivers for the peripheral that was plugged in the adjacent USB port for years. (PC)
You plug any printer in your computer without hesitation or opening up the bundled CD, and you expect your computer to print instantly. (Mac)
You find it an educated decision to use an operating system that was released in 2001 because you’ve heard that the 2006 release has many problems and runs slower, too. (PC)
When a new version of your OS is released, you don’t wait a year until they fix all the problems; you install it as soon as you have a free hour. You’re not particularly surprised when you find all your settings and documents intact. (Mac)
You’ve tried many types of anti-virus software and you’re still don’t trust your current one completely. You’re not surprised to find a shelf packed with anti-virus software next to the shelf that holds your OS in stores. (PC)
You acknowledge the failure of your HDD panic free, in fact with a weird anticipation because you’ve been wanting to restore your entire system from automatic Time Machine backups for a good while. (Mac)
You find it natural that with time your computer slows down and starts producing strange errors, and you have to reinstall the OS to get rid of these problems. You don’t nerve yourself over your lost settings; you reset them in 30 minutes from routine. (PC)
Your wife / girlfriend / parents / children don’t bug you when they get an error message. These same people also don’t let you near their computers. (Mac)
You save half-written emails and any other type of document every few minutes with a better-be-safe attitude. You find it a smart development of technology that the software you’re working with now does this same routine for you. (PC)
You switched operating systems after many years. You didn’t have much trouble with the previous one, but you’re delighted by what you’re using now. You realize that you made unnecessary compromises. You understand if others don’t appreciate your enthusiasm; after all, you used to think the same way. (Mac)
You think that the points above were written by a snob who knows nothing about computers, and he wrote this pathetic text to justify why he bought an overpriced, fancy computer that has the same parts as a home-made box that costs half the price. (PC)