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Old 04-07-10, 08:59 AM   #10
NeonSamurai
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I am anti mac mainly for their fraudulent pc vs mac adverts (from stretching the truth to out and out lies and fabrications), and other general marketing techniques that convince people they need all the rubbish they put out. The smug self obsessed apple users don't help any either.

Frankly I chalk a lot of it up to good old cognitive dissonance in that the mac users spend so much more on their systems, they feel the need to justify the extra money they payed, to lower the dissonant feelings of having realized they payed more for a name and little else. There product isn't better then other quality components (its not like they manufacture much of it anyways, a lot of it is outsourced), and then of course the huge problem that it is all proprietary and you will pay through the nose for parts.

Plus Apple didn't invent the GUI, they swiped the idea from Xerox PARC, then tried sue MS for doing the same thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...user_interface

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