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judofyr·

Nice try, but I'm not feeding this troll.. Okay then, two comments:

1. Why buy a Mac if you're only using Windows software (and not looking for other alternatives)?

2. "I didn't like this website, so obviously Internet is a crappy place."

EDIT: Still, there might be many another crappy websites out there. You're never uniq.

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1. The Mac advertising and constant "It just works" mantra can lead many people to think they would work better on a Mac. The answer that you can just run Windows apps in VMWare when you need them gives people on the edge more of a reason to check out what all the fuss is about. It's been built up to be a bullet proof system from the OS to the hardware but like all systems it isn't perfect. When someone hears million times that this is perfect you should use it and they end up disappointed should you really be waging a finger at them for being an idiot because they listened to the advertising noise?

1.a (short): People buy macs to look cool or feel a part of the group of the "in crowd", even if that means they use nothing but windows on it.

I submitted this because I wanted to honestly see what people's views on the Mac were. Well, I guess I got my answer. :-)

What's interesting is that the Mac/Windows debate is intense enough that this still got comments and votes long after it was flagged off the front page...

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