SO why do people call you talking chicken dude?
Long story short, he was a character in an ancient RPG Maker project that never really got off the ground. I took the name and stuck with it.
Patooty said:
Awesome. Straight from the horse's mouth - I want you to tell me why that is.
Mac vs PC - Round 1
FIGHT!
Well, I guess I walked into that one, huh.
Partly the whole security thing, partly because there isn't really much that's Windows-only that I really need (I'm not a PC gamer, I have consoles for playing video games), and the stuff I do need usually works with Wine, and partly because I just like Macs. Also, they last. I've got an ancient iBook G4 that's over 4 years old and if I didn't drop it once making it require a new hard drive (my backpack was open and I was running for a bus), it would probably still be working just fine, even if it's a bit slow with some stuff.
As far as not using Windows, my excuse used to be that I didn't have enough HDD space (I didn't know it was possible to fill up a 320 gig drive), but since I cleaned things up a bit and got rid of things that I already have backed up on an external hard drive, that's not exactly valid anymore. I guess it's because I like the Mac's interface and I don't really see any point in switching. And
Quicksilver. I know that there are Windows launchers as well, but I don't know of any that you can cater to plenty of applications as well (ie, play a playlist in iTunes, look something up in the dictionary, do a simple math calculation, open a bookmark in a web browser, the list goes on and on).
Also, I don't hate Windows. I'm not some crazed Apple fanboy that refuses to see that the Steve Jobs way is not the only way. I'm fairly proficient with Windows (at least, I like to think so). I use it at work and at school (if I have to
) and I'm happy with it (save for the abnormally long time it takes to close Visual Studio at work). I just choose not to use it. I also admit that Macs have their faults as well (it's 2008 and I still can't cut and paste files in Finder?), but they work well enough that I'm happy with them.
And I guess part of me is just proud to say my computer is completely Microsoft-free.
Maybe "refuse" was a bit harsh though. I have an unused copy of XP lying around and Parallels installed on my computer (I used it for Linux for a brief period of time), just in case I ever needed it. So far, I haven't though.
edit: Oh, and Garageband coming with the computer was also a nice touch. There's definitely
a lot of fun stuff you can do with it.