My Kids Hate Macs

Leander Kahney ()

Milo I hate to admit this, but my kids hate Macs.
Despite forcing them to dress as iPods at Macworld* the little chickens aren’t in love with beautiful Apple hardware.
Even though the house is filled with wonderful Macs, the kids prefer an old ThinkPad we have kicking around for playing Club Penguin and other online games .
Why, I hear you ask?
“It is much faster,” says son number one, Milo, seen here giving his Mac user salute.
They couldn’t give a hoot about the elegant interface or the better quality of QuickTime video. All they care about is the responsiveness of the Flash games they’re addicted to.
Worse thing is they have a point. As my esteemed colleague Paul Boutin pointed out many years ago, Windows machines are much faster on the Web than Macs.
*Actually my wife’s idea. I was mortified.

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Leander Kahney

is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: Inside Steve’s Brain, the New York Times bestseller about Steve Jobs; Cult of Mac; and Cult of iPod. Leander has written for Wired, MacWeek, Scientific American, and The Guardian in London. Follow Leander on Twitter @lkahney and Facebook.

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  • Trev

    They DO have a point, but after installing vista on my dad’s PC it seems slower on the net then my iMac, so yeah–has anyone used safari on leopard, have they updated it yet, is it faster? That’s an adorable picture, BTW.
    But why do they play flash games–there is nothing lower than flash games, if you wasn’t to play games, get a separate gaming consul, that’s how I’ve always felt–if I didn’t then I wouldn’t use a mac! macs aren’t for people who like games…yet.

  • eduardo

    So…
    My kids hate Hammers they suck at unscrewing stuff. As Bob Villa pointed out many years ago Screwdrivers are much faster working with screws than hammers.