Apple store eavesdropping...

So I was killing time the other day while the wife did whatever women do in a mall. I decided to swing by the Apple store and look at the new macbooks. I'm not particularly keen on Apple products, but I wanted to see if the new aluminum bodies looked or felt much different. As I wandered around glancing at price tags I was reminded why I don't like Macs. I just can't bring myself to drop that kind of money on a retail computer, no matter how pretty it is. I messed around with OS X a little and was once again aggravated by the lack of a right click on the laptops. I swear, Steve Jobs would get rid of all the buttons if he could.

As I was preparing to leave I heard a sales person trying to sell a couple on a reeeeeeeealy expensive 24" iMac. There was some technobabble so I hung back and listened in. He was explaining (or attempting to explain) how data is stored on a hard drive. I couldn't decide if he was just uninformed, or trying to sell a computer at any cost. Allow me to paraphrase:

"Oh yeah, the OS X file systems is way better than PCs. You have to defrag a PC all the time because pieces of files get moved all over the hard drive and it has to search to get all the parts before you can open it. Macs don't have that problem, they never need to be defragged . "

*Customer asks about large video files, and what you do to defrag a PC*

"Nope, the OS X file system is really efficient so don't worry about it. It's pretty complicated to defrag a PC. See here, this is the home folder. All your stuff will be here. It's much nicer than a PC file system."

Bah humbug... I'm not sure if this guy realized he was equating locations in a file explorer with physical locations on a hard drive. Clearly, it's this guy's job to sell computers, but I have a problem when people claim that Macs can be all things to all people. In fact, it is recommended that you defrag a Mac if you have large files on it (like videos). And these days PCs actually defrag themselves when idle. As for the file system, it's really a matter of opinion. Claiming that everything about a Mac is better, even when you're making it up, is the kind of irritating behavior I'd expect in an Apple store.

Macs are just... lame.