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Monday, November 16, 2009

City / Tech The Mac Mayor: Traitor? Spendthrift? Idiot?

Posted by Eli Sanders on Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:28 AM

In case you missed it on Friday afternoon, the transition team of Mike McGinn is looking into switching the computers in the mayor's office from PCs to Macs.

Not only is this inflaming long-simmering Mac vs. PC tensions among our commenters—it's pissing people off in all kinds of other ways, too.

Says vailripper:

That's a smart thing to spend money on in the middle of one of the biggest budget shortfalls in the city's history. What a bunch of fucking idiots.

Says mcbombit:

Really? Way to support local business. Microsoft is LOCAL. Why would you want (as a function of city government) to stop contributing to the largest company in the NW. I have never understood Seattle's obsession with Apple. I think it really speaks poorly of Seattle residents that they would not champion their own local company. Where is the pride?

And from Check:

Knowing the old and outdated, bizarro, hacked-together proprietary software that municipal governments often have to work with, I'd be shocked if any or most of those programs worked on Macs.

Want to defend the incoming hizzoner's honor? Want to pile on? Get into the melee HERE.