- 2001.11.26
Here at PeeCee User™ we decided to run a survey of the best
PeeCee Web sites on the Internet. We asked our readers to pick from a
comprehensive list of the nine Web sites we could find or knew about.
Users could also write in results. Here are the winners:
Top Sites
As the Hard Drive Spins: This very popular site has been
featured on All My Children and Jerry Springer. Written in the style of
the prattle from a telemarketer, it offers things called Analogies and
Sarcasm and Witty Repartee. About once a month or so they completely
cover the changes in the PeeCee world in a paragraph or two. (1,390,234
votes)
PC Central: This popular site notes where PeeCees are seen in
the media. Just lately they've had to start updating twice a month
because of all the new sightings. They also track Macs, but only if
they're running Virtual PC or are seen in a Microsoft ad. (327
votes)
The PC Observer: Well regarded in the PeeCee world, this site
reviews hardware, software, and offers opinion columns such as iSistah.
After each news item, they "spin" the news from a PeeCee user's
perspective. This helps us understand the propaganda coming out of
Redmond bereft of the Gatesian Reality Distortion Field.™ It is
kind of hard to read the spinning text, though. (209 votes)
PC Surfer: This site categorizes news and articles from
around the Web. Each day they offer a whole section dedicated just to
PeeCee users. (199 votes)
Barf.com: This site offers highly opinionated reviews of
other sites' content. They especially hate sites which do not report
the Rumor of the Day. Older articles are called "Old Smelly Barf." Set
your Internet filter to "allows really smelly stuff through." (180
volts)
ihatemacs.com:
This popular site skewers the myths surrounding the Mac operating
system such as, "Mac users secretly hate their interface and are lying
to us when they tell us they really like it." Here's another gem: "Macs
suck!" We love that one. (159 votes)
myPCmenu.com: This site recently underwent a total revision,
so change your bookmarks. They list every press release related to
PeeCees and have an excellent PeeCee section set in 56 point type. (134
votes)
PCAddict.com: We tried to look at this site, but our Internet
filter kept blocking the domain name - something about promoting drug
use. (109 votes)
PC World Magazine: Noted for its balanced PeeCee reviews and
unbiased reporting, our users enjoy the fact that the PeeCee
information is located in an easy to find spot-the back - and that it
has the least PeeCee advertising per issue of any popular PeeCee rag.
Unfortunately, the survey was supposed to be Web sites, not magazines,
so we'll probably delete this paragraph before you read it. (92
votes)
www.apple.com: Here's a little insider tip. See what Apple's
doing that no one else is right now. Wait until a PC manufacturer
starts to do it, then buy the PC manufacturer's stock. We did when HP
started offering FireWire compatible mood ring covers. Works every
time. (81 votes)
www.pcfixit.com: This site has a chart with compatibility
matrices showing how manufacturers' products work with each other. For
example, how hard drive X works in manufacturer Y's computer. Users can
also report compatibility problems and resolutions. The PeeCee section,
of course, lists everything as incompatible - as we all know, nothing
on a PeeCee works on another PeeCee. Examples include IEEE 1394
interfaces, which are not mentioned in any documentation that comes
with the iPC, and USB, which as we all know was first popularized on
the Dell Confabulation in 1999. The complete database of
incompatibilities runs to 4 Terabytes, so get those CD-R's ready. (72
votes)
www.slashdot.com.org.net.gov:
This site has a comment section followed by actual research by
respected Web authorities. A great site to check out if your
brother-in-law's theory about fixing your PeeCee isn't working. They
like Linus from the Peanuts comic strip and haven't acknowledged that
Charles Shultz is dead. Oh yeah, they will comment on Macs, but you
have to know someone on staff to get it to happen. (34 votes)
www.Microsoft.com:
We're surprised this site didn't rank higher, as everyone knows that
without Microsoft the PC would be dead as a doornail in winter (or some
other better written metaphor we can't think of right now.) These guys
seem a little schizophrenic, it seems to us. Did you even know there
was an Office suite for Macs? Whose side are these guys on, anyway? (8
votes)
PeeCee User™: How we managed to get votes for other
sites on our survey in excess of the hits to our own site is still
being investigated. (3 votes)
Dell.com: If you want to check out the year before last
year's PeeCees, take a look at this site. Our readers didn't think much
of it, though (1 vote - that would be us).
Not Recommended
www.youranidiot.com: This fellow offers a Mac emulator which
runs on a PeeCee, though it puzzles us why anyone would actually want
such a thing. If you ask him a question about the relative merits of
PeeCees and Macs, you get a framed snail mail with certificate of
authenticity that says, well, "you're an idiot." Frankly, we don't know
how this guy stays in business. (42 votes)
WindowsRumors.com: Aside from boring technical reports about
Intel's late-night brainstorming sessions, we don't think this site has
much to offer Mac or PeeCee users. By the way, everything they say is
true, even when they're telling you they are lying. (-5 votes)
WindowsInsider.com: Updates every hour on the hour and
reports on the latest attempts to catch up with the latest Apple
innovations. Mostly about PC industry news, really. (11 votes)
Low End PC: This Luddite site
recommends users actually upgrade or try to work around problems with
their current computers by fiddling with configurations instead of
taking the industry standard solution for solving PC problems: buying a
new computer. (1-1/2 votes)
We hope you enjoyed our nonscientific and meaningless survey and hope
you'll come back again next week when we do it all over again. By the
way, please do write and tell us that we are idiots for not including
your worthless and seldom visited site on our original list. We love
deleting spam.
