Ah... yeah, right.
If Mac users are such simpletons, and are marginalized and trivialized as only ~5% of the market, then why do you and the other PC bigots spend so much time worrying about us??
It seems to me that if we are so demented, then you should just let us be happy wallowing in our dementia. BUT NO!!! Misery LOVES company, and it just kills you PC bigots that Mac users could actually LIKE their computers.
All the PC bigots think that since we enjoy using our computers that there MUST be something wrong with us. I mean there is simply NO way that using a computer can actually be enjoyable, right?? Well, it wouldn't be enjoyable if we had to worry about DLL conflicts, a dearth of interrupts, the dreaded Blue Screen of Death 8 times a day, winmodems, etc etc etc etc.
It is obvious that most of the PC bigots on this thread have NEVER used a Mac. If somebody is willing to say in public that a Mac is not expandable, then I question their veracity and credibility. As a matter of fact most all the newer Macs don't even require a screwdriver to get to the guts. You just pull a handle and the whole machine just unfolds.
And before anybody starts acting like I am clueless, let me state my bona fides. I personally with my own two hands have sold over a million dollars worth of PC hardware to the consultants around W-S at the wholesale level. I personally with my own two hands have built at LEAST 350 machines including OS installs.
I have also been a sys. admin. (The ONLY one there) at an ISP, and I can program in a half dozen different languages, using nearly every IDE known to man/woman.
Within arm's reach right now are a half dozen or so machines: 2 Red Hat Linux boxes, an NT 4.0 sp6 box, a windoze 98 SE box, an 8100/100 AV PowerMac, and a Powercenter pro 180 (Mac clone).
As soon as the 1930's like depression in the IT sector passes, my next box will prolly be a 2000 server/FreeBSD dual-boot box. BTW, I built every box in here that does not have the Mac OS running on it.
Furthermore, I have also been a windoze repair technician in the past, and have seen nearly every type of Windoze related issue you can imagine. All I can say is that the Windoze bigots here who are bad-mouthing the Mac REALLY don't know what they are talking about.
Care to guess which machine I am using to compose this post??
There ARE legitimate points of contention between the Mac OS and Windoze, but this OS war thread doesn't seem to be the place to discuss them. Generalizations about Mac users liking flashy things are so absurd and based in ignorance, that it is hard to have an intelligent discourse. Ad hominem attacks on the Mac OS only prove the point that the Mac must be doing SOMETHING right, or it's users couldn't get your goat so easily.
PS-- Bill Gates did NOT LOAN Apple 150 million. He bought 150 million worth of Apple's stock. And Apple's stock OUTPERFORMED his own for a long time after that. He made more money on that investment than he would have buying back his own company's stock. NEVER let it be said that Gates is NOT a savvy investor. He saw that Apple's stock was at a price that had their market capitalization at LESS than the worth of Apple's physical assets. It was CLEARLY a super bargain at that time, and he made a GOOD investment decision. To this day Apple has a HUGE reserve of cash, despite their piddly ~5% market share.
From http://www.owenink.com/26.pdf:
"Even Microsoft benefitted from Apple's fabulous financial performance. The preferred shares of Apple that Microsoft purchased for $150 million in August 1997 are convertible into 9.1 million common shares, leaving Redmond sitting on a paper pretax profit of well over $1 billion in early 2000."
Relax, have a cup of tea, tune in some elevator/easy listening music on the radio and get a grip.
It might help if you gaze into that translucent colored case housing an iMac. Works for me.
Really this thread was taunting PC'rs from the word go, but as far as I can see the original post and replys were all in good fun.
prisoner6
Ah... yeah, right.