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You could easily replace "MacBooks" with "Windows" in that sentence and it would still be true.

You could replace 'MacBooks/Windows' with 'computers' in that sentence and it would still be true.

True.

That's why I thought the comment I replied to was kind of pointless.

You couldn't be more wrong guys :) A lot of IT professionals and noobies in Russia dream of MacBook. The different question is that the apple products are much more expensive here rather than overseas.

Almost everybody tries to bring it from USA, via eBay or somebody.

It's kind of different in Russia: you have to know about Apple, Macs are harder to find (only recently Apple Russia began installing tiny Mac booths in large computer stores), there are no ads (except for iPhones), iPods are not popular. 99.9% of people don't know about Apple.

With macs you don't need to know the difference between a standard ethernet cable and a crossover cable, but I don't think they've extended the web as far as shoe strings yet.