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Ask HN: Do you look down on people who don't use MacBooks?
I have noticed that if I see someone working next to me and they aren't using a MacBook, then my opinion of them goes down a notch. For instance, there is a pretty girl working next to me right now, but she is on a Windows laptop, and I'm just not interested in chatting with her as a result. Do other people also experience this prejudice?
- mindcrime 4y agoI look down on people who use MacBooks personally. YMMV. But in the end, "live and let live" ya know? Different strokes for different folks.
- mattl 4y agoWhere do you have the Dock on your MacBook?
- PaulHoule 4y agoI think Mac-ers have always been accepting of my Windows laptop with the caveat that historically they only had mini-DisplayPort cables so I learned to pack the right adapters in my backpack to plug into monitors, projectors, etc. Personally I feel smugly superior when I go to a hack-a-thon with a cheap tablet, bluetooth mouse and keyboard and RDP into a cloud server. My client makes any Macbook look clunky and oversized yet behind it could be a cloud server with more RAM than all of those Macbooks put together. Anyhow you must have a huge surplus of pretty girls in your life if you are going to not chat one up based on the computer they have.
- darthrupert 4y agoIf they are professional software developers, perhaps a Windows laptop would cause me to wonder why. If it's running Linux, they actually get points over Apple in my book, even though I use macs myself. And jeez, don't diss the opposite sex over their computer taste.
- PaulHoule 4y agoUntil very recently, "develop on neural networks" was a good reason to be on Windows where you could get a non-trash GPU. Until Macs made the transition to arm I'd make the case they were inferior, now I'd say a desktop Windows machine still has advantages but Apple owns the laptop space.
- jononomo 4y agoI just feel that they must not be competent enough to get a job that permits using a MacBook. Or maybe they're poor.
- nateb2022 4y agoI can imagine you would have started the conversation, "So, how much did that thing cost?"
- dougmwne 4y agoSounds like my opinion of mac users should be dropping.
- h2odragon 4y agoWe should celebrate diversity. Except for the WebTV users. Sorry y'all its not worth it get a real computer.
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- theGeatZhopa 4y agoYes, that's the problem of Apple users :) In the end it's the result that counts. This can be achieved in a lot of ways. And the same discussion with brands & clothes: If someone is wearing unbranded clothes, does this make he/she/it a human less worth?? Of course: no money, no brand clothes. But, you can't pinpoint "no apple"/"no brands" to "no money". For me, I could afford buying a new apple device every month. I just decided for my self, not to let wallgarden me :)
- sebastianconcpt 4y agoBefore considering to answer your question (not to mention upvote), do you even have a Lamborghini? What about a Bugatti? Wait, you don't even have a castle? PS: Just a suggestion, your observation is a real phenomenon, personal values self-review is strongly encouraged. Too much utilitarianism and opportunism will invariably lead to some kind of psychopath world-view.
- cc101 4y agoI don't look down on them. I do wonder about them though.
- khedoros1 4y agoI've never liked Apple's hardware much. Since I've been paying attention over the past 20 years, it seems like they've dropped ports when I wanted more, skimped on RAM and storage, and moved to soldering everything in when I've never owned a computer that I didn't end up upgrading or repairing at some point in its life. I don't look down on Mac users, but I recognize them as having preferences that don't match mine.