Raccoon Toons

Yes, I am an artist. Yes, I live in Silicon Valley only minutes away from Cupertino, CA. No. I do not use a Mac…I didn’t drink the Kool-aid.

I realize there are a fair amount of my readers who live and breath by their Apple computers. I realize that Apple users can sometimes be a little more…sensitive about their brand loyalty. I’m not writing these things to alienate you. Truthfully. I just…don’t get it.

I don’t understand what’s so amazing about Apple computers. They aren’t as fast as my computer. I can’t swap out parts in them. There are so many programs that won’t run on them. You can’t watch the cartoons on THIS very website when using their smaller devices (and that REALLY ticks me off). I can’t play my really old DOS version of Eco Quest on them.

And don’t give me that same old line about “how much easier they are to use.” My mother STILL calls me every week because she can’t figure out how to read her email on her Mac. She still likes it though. “It looks so pretty.” It had better. It’s only used for email, and it cost twice as much as the computer I built myself.

Things are closed. Too many decisions are made for you. They say “think different” but they really mean “think like us.”

Look, I really don’t have any super brand loyalty one way or another (except when it comes to things that really matter, like baseball). I believe in purchasing the best product to suit one’s needs.

So given the choice between:

A.) a computer that does most daily tasks, but won’t open my older files and programs,

and

B.) a computer that will do all my daily tasks, will open my older files and programs, provide faster video rendering times, allow me to upgrade parts as I see fit,  isn’t afraid of Bluray, AND costs substantially less…

I’m going to choose the latter. It meets my computer needs. Don’t hate me for it.