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The MAC @ 20
Forbes.com ^ | 12.15.03 | Quentin Hardy

Posted on 12/15/2003 1:17:02 PM PST by yankeedame

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1 posted on 12/15/2003 1:17:02 PM PST by yankeedame
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To: yankeedame
Everybody bake a quiche and light some incense sticks in celebration today!
2 posted on 12/15/2003 1:20:50 PM PST by Deathmonger
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To: yankeedame
Oh this is just great. Now we'll have another +1000 post PC vs. Mac thread. Can't we all just get along?
3 posted on 12/15/2003 1:21:09 PM PST by The_Victor
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To: yankeedame
A shame there's no mention of Steve Wozniak in this article.


4 posted on 12/15/2003 1:21:21 PM PST by Liberal Classic (No better friend, no worse enemy.)
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To: yankeedame
Who Knew? If someone would have given me some warning, I would have baked my iMac a cake!!!! I hope it's feelings aren't hurt! It knows I love it though!!!
5 posted on 12/15/2003 1:22:48 PM PST by ladyinred (If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door!)
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To: yankeedame
I use several platforms but my new 15 inch Mac Powerbook is a total gas! Makes using a PC about as attractive as cutting grass with a push mower.
6 posted on 12/15/2003 1:23:14 PM PST by Lee Heggy (An erection is not personal growth)
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To: yankeedame
Couldn't resist :)

http://www.rickmarshall.net/funnies/mac.wmv
7 posted on 12/15/2003 1:23:54 PM PST by Fenris6
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To: ladyinred
If someone would have given me some warning, I would have baked my iMac a cake!!!!

Heh, you'd get along well with this guy.

8 posted on 12/15/2003 1:26:40 PM PST by ThinkDifferent
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To: The_Victor
No, we can't.

Not while there are still some of us around who remember trying to do software development work in XENIX on the Lisa. Better yet, I still have two Apple ///'s out in the loft of my garage. If the mice haven't gotten into 'em they're probably still as functional as the day they were made; maybe even if the mice have gotten into 'em, too.

9 posted on 12/15/2003 1:26:41 PM PST by brbethke
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To: ladyinred
And I love my virus-free iBook.
10 posted on 12/15/2003 1:27:00 PM PST by sarasota
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To: yankeedame
"digital lifestyle"

LOL! Can you say "metro"?

11 posted on 12/15/2003 1:27:34 PM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: *Macuser_list
ping!
12 posted on 12/15/2003 1:27:44 PM PST by Vermonter (If you can keep your head while everyone around you loses theirs, you'll be taller than they are)
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To: yankeedame
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13 posted on 12/15/2003 1:27:46 PM PST by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: yankeedame
Cute, two major problems:
Apple wasn't just accused of stealing from Xerox they lost the case
Linux was porting to PC desktops long before OSX

I like how they try to recast Steve Job's goal of a dual monopoly in hardware and the OS as a benevolent dictatorship, that's extra funny.
14 posted on 12/15/2003 1:29:07 PM PST by discostu (that's a waste of a perfectly good white boy)
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To: yankeedame; CheneyChick; Bush2000
The most famous innovation, of course, is the original Mac's graphical user interface, which Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows appeared to copy over several generations.

If Windows copied the Mac then that would make it a copy of a copy.  XEROX invented the modern graphical user interface at the Palo Alto Research Center.  The XEROX execs were too busy changing the paper on their copiers to notice.

15 posted on 12/15/2003 1:29:51 PM PST by Incorrigible (immanentizing the eschaton)
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To: brbethke
Better yet, I still have two Apple ///'s out in the loft of my garage. If the mice haven't gotten into 'em they're probably still as functional as the day they were made; maybe even if the mice have gotten into 'em, too.

So are my Commodore 64's! :-)

Some things just CAN'T not work...

16 posted on 12/15/2003 1:30:13 PM PST by Gorzaloon (Contents may have settled during shipping, but this tagline contains the stated product weight.)
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To: yankeedame
Scientologists, Hare Krishnas, Macintosh fanatics, Hale-Bopp enthusiasts, Jonestown Kool-Aid drinkers....

Any others?

Before the Mac-Whacks flame the crap out of me, I'm just amused at the zealotry of Macintosh users. I don't think you're really a cult. Really. I don't. Stop looking at me that way...
17 posted on 12/15/2003 1:30:47 PM PST by Mr. Bird
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To: The_Victor
Can't we all just get along?

Yeah, but the bashing is just so much FUN! <|:)~

18 posted on 12/15/2003 1:31:02 PM PST by martin_fierro (Ohhh...ehhh... ¿Peeka Panish?)
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To: discostu
Apple wasn't just accused of stealing from Xerox they lost the case

Source? According to this Xerox did sue Apple but the case was "dismissed on a technicality".

19 posted on 12/15/2003 1:35:11 PM PST by ThinkDifferent
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To: yankeedame
I bought a 20th Anniversary Mac (which I am using right now) back in November of 1997. Maybe it's the 25th anniversary now???
20 posted on 12/15/2003 1:35:40 PM PST by woofer2425
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