F-U Mac 360

I'm the Mac tech specialist for a local school district supporting nearly a thousand Macs, running both Tiger and Leopard. There have been no serious problems with 99% of them, hardware or software. Most often, there may be some "user error."

I haven't tried an iPhone or MobileMe. From what I've heard, HP is not the brand to buy if you want to buy a PC- Lennovo or Toshibas are much more reliable, hardware-wise. In my experience, both XP and Vista are nightmares, intrusive, annoying, unreliable.

I believe it is time for Kate to say goodbye to this site, she is becoming the John Dvorak of the internet. In fact, the companion Apple-bashing piece by Ron seems to be a piece driven by ego to justify a whole lot of recent whining, maybe to back up Kate's rant also.

It is my feeling that Apple is going through some significant growing pains, but even still, there's absolutely no contest between them and the competition. In fact, it never ceases to amaze me how any reasonable comparisons can be made, why anyone in their right mind would actually choose a Windows machine.

It is also important to remember that Windows Vista is given "a bad rap" mostly not by Mac users but those with much more extensive experience and involvement with the platform than the month Kate has spent with her HP. In my own school district, the 50% of computers running Windows have been downgraded to XP due to a variety of nightmarish scenarios, many of which persist because, well, Windows is Windows. Read the PC magazines and blogs- there is more Vista-bashing these days than Mac-bashing.

This site no longer serves a useful purpose- it is apparent that the two parties who remain have abandoned ship in a manner far more extensively than those who have merely disappeared. There is nothing positive to be gained here, nothing to be learned in an educational, inspiring, communal atmosphere that characterizes the best forums, be they print magazines or websites. There is only whining, complaining, justifications, misrepresentation, and temper tantrums. Exactly what you would expect from a teenager in a Mac-bashing blog.

I do not doubt the sincerity of the opinions and whining that has become Mac 360, but I cannot expect any meaningful objectivity at this point because it is so obvious to me, with my daily experiences with hundreds and hundreds of Mac users and Apple technology, that all that has been written here is so subjective as to be almost completely meaningless, so blown out of proportion and misrepresentative of the overall picture. Of course Apple has some problems- we are talking technology, after all. But the choice is clear- and it's Mac.

Please stop writing and either retire or sell the domain- on Craigslist.

Shut it down. And good luck with your HP's.