I’ve met some that were practically frothing.
*Once*, I went to Sunset Electronics in PA to look at the iMacs [which crashed every time I touched them] and the salesman was livid when I decided Apple just wasn’t my thing.
Got very insulting.
Never went back.
Perfectly understandable; people get pretty weird when you, directly or indirectly, impugn their “occupational” choices.
What I’ve never been able to explain, aside from the aforementioned speculations about psych-trauma in their formative years, is why apple haters carry such over-the-top hostility waaay beyond the “defining characteristic of my life” boundary.
Just look at the arguments here! Is it not obvious some posters are not arguing with opponents on this thread, but with EVERY opponent they’ve ever had on the subject?
I maintain networks of Macs. . . dozens of iMacs, Mac Minis, Mac Pros, MacBook Pros, Macbook Airs, and in over 12 years, I think that I have seen exactly THREE (3) crashes, in all those Macs.
My personal Mac has been running 24/7 for the past seven years and except for updates, has NEVER been shut down. . . and never crashed. So, I think I will call that an outright lie. Sorry. Nice try, but no banana. Simply more FUD from someone who is totally ignorant of OS X Macs.
Ummm... yeah. Makes one wonder the context of this "observation".