Tricks for making your girlfriend Mac-compatible
So we all have that fantastic image of coming home to an adoring partner who relishes our every word, listens to us unquestioningly, and most importantly thinks we’re demi-gods. How great would it be to get our girlfriends (for those of us that have them) to love Macs as much as we do? In this article I’ll point out how valuable this could be, and how you could get that loved one to love Macs as much as they love you.
Why would it be so great to get your girlfriend to love Macs? There are 2 reasons:
1. Imagine a world where you don’t have to constantly come behind your girlfriend, picking up after her countless and reoccuring computer errors, fixing problems that wouldn’t have happened had she been using a Mac…that’s why hooking your girlfriend on a Mac would be great. That’s almost as stress-free as not paying taxes.
2. If your girlfriend loves Mac, you can now use technical or creative jargon to explain to her the reason why you need 2 30″ cinema displays, or that 8 core Mac Pro…after all, if she loves Macs, she won’t need to really understand what’s going on, will she?
So now that we have the basic argument for why converting your girlfriend to Mac would be so great, let’s discuss how to go about doing it.
First of all, it is worth noting that, excluding designers or industry professionals, most women use the computer for the very same (and few) things:
1. email
2. instant messaging
3. media playback
4. web browsing
5. document making
And that’s about all she wrote (har har). We all know that doing these things on a Mac are much easier and safer, so here’s how you do it:
1. Use flashy things to catch a woman’s eye. For instance, using the cube-rotate graphic on Virtue Desktops in front of your loved one will make her ooh and ahh, and most importantly wonder how she can do it. Now, she might never appreciate the value of multiple desktops, but it certainly is flashy and cool, and that’s what counts.
2. Subtly point out nifty and unique features (especially customizeability), as women love options and customizing (think about purses and jewelry here). Liken the options to customize Adium as a closet full of purses, earrings and shoes…show her how many options there are, and how “cute” it can be, and she might just bite.
3. Use subterfuge and verbal cues to awaken her awareness to all the issues she has with her PC that you don’t have with your Mac…now it is noteworthy that even if she switches to Mac, it won’t necessarily be as flawless as your usage, but an improvement is what it’s worth.
4. Emphasize the image associated with Mac…that sleek little Macbook case is cute and sexy, and nowadays, it’s more an accessory and status symbol than ever a laptop has been.
Now that you have your cues, go to work: switching her to Mac will be one of the better things that happens to you this week, so remember…it will make her life easier, and yours easier as well.
To the ladies reading this blog, I don’t discount your ability to comprehend and remedy errors on computers; quite the opposite, many of you have more programming talent in your acrylic-free nails than many men. However, many of us men are inseparably tied to women who aren’t quite as savvy, so you can understand how amazing this could be, right?
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June 17th, 2007
Do you have any experimental data to back up your rather interesting theories?
June 18th, 2007
Most of this is based off of first hand experience with my own significant other, as well as converting my mother and her friends to Mac; additionally, I have used the stories of my best friend and his closest ones to supplement these findings.
June 23rd, 2007
This is a pretty offensive piece ie, “but it certainly is flashy and cool, and that’s what counts”.
Have you even got a girlfriend? Ever?
June 25th, 2007
This is hilarious and completely on target as long as you realize that it is a very specific demographic of women that the author is referring to. Not “all women”, but rather “some women”. If you aren’t part of the all women category, don’t be offended. If you are, well, then switch to a mac.
June 25th, 2007
actually, I do
In fact, I’ve had quite a few; thanks for asking.