Evidence of Mac Elitism and Snobbery
Why is it when you praise Vista or slam Mac, you are a dumbass and a MSFT shill, but when you praise Mac and insult Vista, you are a wonderful and enlightened person? This comes from observation of the blogs over at Computerworld (blatant plug – I blog over there as well).
Look at Seth Weintraub’s blog. His blog is called Apple, Ink. He writes about Apple and the wonders contained therein. Look at his ratings. Very few are anything less than +20, with many +30 and above.
Now, look at Preston Gralla’s blog. His blog is called Seeing Through Windows. He is typically pro-MSFT and even fairly anti-Mac. Now look at his ratings: -100, -103, -182… Sheesh. And he gets flamed every time in his comments as well, constantly being accused of being on the MSFT payroll.
I don’t have a Mac. I run XP on my laptop, and my wife’s new Dell has Vista. And honestly, I wanted to try a Mac when we started looking for a new computer. But the reason I didn’t buy one was because of price. An Apple would have cost me twice as much money. I can’t use the learning curve argument because Vista and Office 2007 changed everything up and drove my wife batty. But at least it was a lot cheaper than a Mac, and it is damn fast (quad core, 3 gigs RAM, 7200 RPM SATA, HD, 128 meg nVidia video card, etc etc).
So if you own a Mac and you think it is the best thing since sliced silicone, then more power to you. Just get off your preppy horse with a quasi-Mohawk and an earring and quit telling us PC owners that we are stupid. Sheesh…
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