[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This petty back and forth, playground crap from Apple is turning people off. Not everyone wants all the latest cutting edge software nor do they have the $1,000 to spend on a Mac. Why can’t Mac users just leave Windows users alone in peace? I’ll never buy a Mac, and the primary reason is the elitist, hoiler-than-thou garbage that emanates from its stupid commercials and users with art or woman’s studies degrees still living with their parents.

[Senator Pardek]

I don't understand the appeal of their ads featuring a clean cut white collar worker (PC) vs. a pothead vidiot slacker (Mac).

Their merchandise is top-notch, IMHO - why not have someone successful looking representing their products?

[Terpfen]

This petty back and forth, playground crap from Apple is turning people off.

As evidenced by their latest quarterly earnings report... oh, wait, no, they actually just had their best quarter in company history.

Beyond that, I'm failing to see how NBC-controlled Today Show background images are somehow secretly planted by Apple as a "gotcha."

[PIF]

Get a Mac Mini - use your old monitor, keyboard, and mouse - from $600.

[dennisw]

My thoughts are the same and look at this contrast

undersized 13.3” Mac laptop for $999
vs
full sized 15.6” Windows 7 laptop for 350-500$

And contrary to the Apple propaganda, that “lesser” Window laptop is just ducky for 85-90% of computer users

If you want an adult size 15” Mac laptop, that will be $1599

[Swordmaker]

This petty back and forth, playground crap from Apple is turning people off.

You don't see the irony? It's amusing... and there are other examples of this irony. For instance last spring Ballmer was making a presentation before a large group... and the computer that was driving the background big screen presentation was obviously a Mac.

I’ll never buy a Mac, and the primary reason is the elitist, hoiler-than-thou garbage that emanates from its stupid commercials and users with art or woman’s studies degrees still living with their parents.

And it never ceases to amaze me that Windows users cannot make a comment in a thread where Macs are discussed without devolving to ad hominem insults about Mac users. A recent survey found that 85% of Mac owners ALSO own a Windows PC (probably in the garage or closet) because they have switched. Conversely, 92% of Windows PC owners do NOT have a Mac.

Perhaps those Mac users know more than do you, with your uninformed negative opinions, about the relative merits of the two platforms because of a wider experience with both.