Why I'd rather have a PC than an iMac

1. As being an oldschool demo coder, I like the choice of memory - conventional, UMB, HMA, EMS, XMS, DPMI, VCPI. Macintosh 32-bit flat addressing does not appeal to me.

2. I like the choice of video adapter standards: CGA, Hercules, EGA, VGA, SVGA, XGA, 8514, AT&T, PGA. In any case, I enjoy updating my entire code library when a new graphics card arrives.

3. Everyone knows PC busses are better than the Macintosh - ISA 16 bit at 8MHz is fast enough for me. Or I could use EISA, MCA, VLB, PCI or even AGP. Those poor Macintosh users only get a 20MHz NuBus slot or a 32-bit local bus slot (which they had to put up with before us PC users did anyway).

4. My PC is more expandable than the iMac - I've got two serial ports, a parallel port, a joystick port (all on one card!), a sound card (SoundBlaster, AdLib, MediaVision, Gravis - all different standards, of course), a mouse plugged into my serial port, a video adapter, a network card, a disk drive controller, and a SCSI interface. Of course, that all takes up six of my eight slots just to get my PC up to the same standard as a Macintosh with nothing plugged into it's expansion slots, but that doesn't really count.

5. The cutting-edge design of my PC matches my personality AND my room interior.

6. My PC running Linux applications is much faster than a Macintosh running 32-bit GUI applications. Anyway, when I run Windows I enjoy the numerous crashes so much, I don't mind that my PC runs just a bit faster than a handicapped snail.


No, f*ck the Macs, PC it right to me baby!