Does being a Mac user make you smug?

[powermac]

I may have been smug years ago. Even now, I don't let opporunities pass by when a Windows moment comes up. For example, when a colleague is going crazy trying to get a power point presentation to work, or has lost a file, etc, without saying something.
I agree, I think most PC people are smug.

[CaptainQuark]

Originally Posted by fryke

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...6784775&q=1984

OK – hands up! Who else is old enough to remember those old Macs?

[fryke]

Didn't we have an age-poll recently? ... And: _Are_ there people who have _not_ seen one in some movie (Back to the future II? or I?) or computer museum or attic or something? Actually, I'm not sure whether I've ever seen an _original_ Macintosh computer in real life. I've seen a Macintosh 512K, quite a bit of Mac Plus machines, some SEs etc. ... But the original was the 128, right? Oh. Now we're off-topic. And it was my fault... Sorry!

[CaptainQuark]

Back to topic: yes, I'm smug as hell about being a Mac user. Life's so much simpler and everything just works!

[davebz]

I would say I'm smug but polite about it. (that may sound confusing, I know)
I still giggle when I go home and the family "Hell" has a BSOD or it's acting weird and I have to clean it up. My family will probably never be mac fans. They are too cost conscious (nowadays that's just an excuse) and they've dug themselves too deep into the dark side. Quite frankly, I don't know what they would do if I sat one of them in front of a mac. I guess I'll have to try it when I get my MB-Pro.

Macintosh, because you're too creative for Windows

[reed]

Smug? Depends on what PC creep you're talking to.

[Satcomer]

To bring up the smug thing reminds me of something. It still amazes me that most anywhere on the net there is a Mac board some PC trolls will show up trying to start a flame war. Even if it is a trouble shooting board. I bet is the mods here have to delete these kind of posts all the time on this site.

[fryke]

Hm. Less and less, I think. Unless it's all the _other_ mods who fight the trolls. ... But of course the whole issue of flame-wars between PC users and Mac users are a sign of both sides being smug about different and the same things. I think the way a Mac user turns "smug" in the eyes of others is this:

1.) User gets a Mac. Falls in love with the ease of use, the details etc. and how he or she can actually work more and troubleshoot less.
2.) This experience wants to be shared, so the user starts talking about how Macs are great ("I've seen the light...") and gets the usual misinformed answers of how Macs don't have any software, are slower etc.
3.) The user learns that he or she is part of a relatively _small_ group, the David where Goliath would be the Windows world, so to speak, and has to constantly defend the use of a Mac.
4.) The user learns to just shut up and enjoy his/her Mac. And when _asked_ about it, turns to those rather smug answers we all know so well:

"I use a Mac, because contrary to Windows, it just works." - "I use a _real_ computer." (Hinting at the toyish look of Windows, Ubuntu etc.) - "Get a Mac." (Whenever someone talks of problems with drivers or viruses etc.)

I think the _new_ lines should include Windows like this: "I've installed Windows via BootCamp/Parallels, but I found out that I just can do 99% of the things better on the Mac side. Now I only use Windows on my Mac to play the occasional game or test a website in Internet Explorer. If that kills Windows, I can just reinstall it without endangering my _real_ operating system."