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Old 08-07-2007, 12:25 PM   #75 (permalink)
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Maybe people are gonna hate me for bringing back a discussion that's months old, but I dislike the ads for adding to that attitude a lot of (but not all) Mac owners have. "My computer just works," or similar stuff said in a smug voice, implying that my Windows machine doesn't work.
My windows PC is 6 years old and still works, runs HL2, Counter Strike: Source, and other demanding applications. Yes, I have reinstalled the OS once or twice, but that was because of a hard drive failure

My wife's family is pro-mac, and apple. They say that their computers "just work", as well, but the only one that works here is an ibook G4.
Other than that one, they have 2 PowerBook G4s, one of them overheats like crazy, the other one's battery actually swelled up to the point that the space bar wasn't working and there was a big swollen area visible on the bottom of it.
Mac computers have their problems, too. I wouldn't dislike the "mac crowd" if they didn't have that attitude that goes with it. Macs are just another PC, with a different OS and a focus on design, and I respect that (though it's not for me). But it's the smugness of their customer base that thoroughly annoys me.
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