# Amusingly hyperbolic article about the concentrated AWESOME of the iPhone 5. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 27, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusingly-hyperbolic-article-about-the-concentrated-awesome-of-the-iphone-5/586967 "2011-06-27T00:58:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 48
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusingly-hyperbolic-article-about-the-concentrated-awesome-of-the-iphone-5/586967/48 "2011-07-02T01:13:58Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#): > > Awwwww, you came in to threadshit! How darling! It’s just like you to consider a disagreement to be threadshitting. Doesn’t make it so, however. > [@lindsaybluth](#): > > I had a little side business doing it in high school and I had more work than I could handle and many referrals, so I think I did just fine. Like I said, my info is 5 years out of date, since I haven’t owned a Windows machine in 5 years and quit working on Windows machines at the same time. And therein lies one of the fundamental problems of many Mac people who rag on Windows: the fact that they generally seem to have an idea about Windows that is _at least_ five years out of date, and often ten or fifteen. Last time i participated in one of these threads, one Mac supporter’s reason for preferring Macs was: > [@Mac computers - is it mostly just image and status?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-computers-is-it-mostly-just-image-and-status/529748/82): > > I also like that I don’t need to install software for every new piece of hardware I hook up. I can plug into any printer and just print. I plug my video camera into the computer and it just uploads the videos and sorts them into clips and dates. My camera just plugs in and goes. > > When connecting to a wifi network, I just find it in the list and click it. The amount of frustration I’ve had with windows doing this is unbelievable. After going through a few help windows we get it connected, but for some reason it’s still trying to use the ethernet port which isn’t connected. This has happened multiple times with my wife’s computer and once with my parents. What the hell kind of system tries to use the port that’s not connected, when it is clearly stating that it is connected another way? Why can’t I just find a list of wifi networks and connect? It sounds like the last time this guy looked at Windows was around the time of Windows ME. In Windows XP, i never had any trouble with printers, cameras, or wi-fi. Same in Windows 7. > [@lindsaybluth](#): > > Running the scans and choosing what to delete manually (always a good idea in my mind) is a PITA that does not occur on Apple systems. As i said, if doing that takes hours of your time every month, you can’t be doing it very well. In the year and a half that i’ve had my Win7 box, i’ve never had to choose what to delete manually, because if the software is allowed to keep itself up to date, it never lets anything onto the computer in the first place. Every time my scans run, the only message they give me is something along the lines of “The scan is complete. No problems were found.” As i suggested, if you’re having to clean crap off your computer in Windows on a regular basis, then there’s something wrong. I think Macs are fantastic computers. My wife has a Macbook Pro for work, and she’s about to move to a Macbook Air. She had a choice of Mac or Windows computers, and chose Mac partly on my recommendation. None of this has anything to do with a desire to bash Macs or to threadshit. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusingly-hyperbolic-article-about-the-concentrated-awesome-of-the-iphone-5/586967)._