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1. Most MAC users are obnoxious a**holes about their MACs vs. PC. They will never admit that a PC can be good. And several of them are posting to this thread. I could care less what kind of machine anyone buys, just don't give me crap because I like my PC better than your Mac.

I have not seen any mac users that I would classify as a**holes on this thread. Can you point them out?

I have seen a few less than polite (and some quite insulting) Windows users, though—in particular codeflier. Let's see how polite and uninsulting he has been:

1. Most MAC users are obnoxious a**holes about their MACs vs. PC. They will never admit that a PC can be good.
2. 90% of MAC users are flaming libs.
3. The company's marketing is geared toward the environmental elitist crowd.
4. Did I mention obnoxious a**holes?
5. Most are caught up in status over technology.

Hmmmm. Quite insulting and impolite to fellow Freepers. I looked back over this thread and saw nothing insulting to him... or you.

The only obnoxious a**hole on this thread is not a Mac user...

2. 90% of MAC users are flaming libs.

That is also my experience based on a sample of roughly 50 people. It is around 98% because only one of the Mac users I know is a conservative. OK, so I hang around Silicon Valley. But it is a definite correlation. Apple management is a bunch of hardcore libs living in multi-multi-million dollar homes in the most exclusive enclaves of Palo Alto, Los Altos Hills, Atherton, etc, working hard to keep their exclusivity and keeping the riffraff well isolated from their exalted existences, other than letting them maintain their very impressive and large-scale landscaping.

I think that the cultural alignment with the leadership and its political perspectives is much more important than HW/SW performance, at least for the Mac aficionados that I know in the SF Bay Area / Silicon Valley. The Mac aficionados that I know in the working neighborhoods of my weekend existence in the Sacramento area spend much of our weekend get-togethers complaining about how things don't work and how their OS keeps crashing. When pressing my Silicon Valley buds I hear that yes, their Macs crash all the time, but they recover so nicely.

My samples are probably not representative of reality. For example, our video editing people use very high-end Mac platforms exclusively and what I see them do does blow me away. The home users have a lot of bad experiences, but they happily tolerate them because it's not evil Microsoft, but socially responsible Apple that's crashing their machines.

Again the Silicon Valley world is maybe not representative. What do you guys in the more normal parts of the country find?