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Wait, I'm sorry. Apple hardware is on-par price wise with PC computers and better components? No way. That is just not true.

There are soooo many different PC brands that sell the same raw part configuration of an Apple computer for less than the Apple sticker. Once you break open that Mac, the inside core components are not superior to a PC. Intel is intel, NVidia is Nvidia, etc... Apple sources their stuff from the same place many PC makers do to. It isn't like they put magic dust on their hard drives to prevent them from crashing any more than another drive out there.

Now, design, flare, a sense of being part of a member's only club. That Apple has in spades. Apple does deliver on the pretty. But I can hit a Frys and build out a computer to run circles around a $4000+ mac for less than $2000. It might not look as pretty, but it will be fast.

Other than looks, Apple gives you a great OS. Why in the world do you all want to put Windows 7 on your pretty macs?! Is it a chance to get up to speed for the MS bashing that will come?

I am a computer is a computer guy. I could give a crap what machine I use as long as it does the job. But as a graphic artist I have lots of friends who preach to me the Steve Job's gospel. Yet they too seem to show off how their macs run Windows so well. All the while telling me how they think the OS sucks, how they have all the apps they need on their mac and the windows only apps are not worth their time anyway. How all the good games are on Mac too. And how their hardware is just as good for the price they spent as any PC - or better.

And so I find it incredibly funny to see Apple hardware owners shoving beta Windows 7 on their Macs. God help us if MS actually pulls it off and makes Windows 7 more enticing than OS X in visuals and functionality.

I wonder with all the Apple marketing out there if they have somehow tricked the public into thinking Apple makes the leading OS now. And now MS is some kind of underdog in the OS race. Is the desire to get Windows 7 up and running on the Mac a secret desire to root for the underdog?

Well said....you just stole my words...

But at the end of the end...Mac still makes great computers....but for MS...not sure...somehow "Microsoft makes good software" doesn't quite sound right.

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Hmmm...I didn't intend to make it out to be such a "religious war." The point I was trying to convey is that Apple is a company just like any other, and so many people act like it (Apple) is the first, last and only way to do tech.

I was just really annoyed with the author's line about NEVER buying a competing brand of laptop again. That to me is just flat stupid. (And a very, very common opinion--shared by a vast majority of the Apple users I have met.) Dell built it's reputation on quality then lost it. What makes anybody so sure that Apple will NEVER pull a similar stunt? Steve Jobs announces a leave of absence and Apple's stocks plummet. There is no reason to think that Apple will or ever should be the end all for ANYTHING. No company should.

Where did Bush come into the question? I didn't much care for the guy, and I don't think he had a single thing to do with computers...He probably never learned how to turn one on--I don't know or care. This is a tech blog site, not the Economist.

If you read what I said, I never dissed on Apple's designs or software. I diss the (majority of the) lame-ass people that use them, and then set up Apple shrines in their heads. They simply cannot fathom that perhaps somebody else could do something as well as or better than their beloved fruity friend, which is annoying to me.

Apple have always been a 'premier' hardware maker ..putting design and usability before the bottom-line ..apart from 'the dark years', they don't do cheap. People who love this concept will naturally gravitate towards Apple because, hell, who else in tech does this? You see the same kind of brand loyalty in cars, clothing, mountain-bikes, etc. If there were more tech companies consistently doing this I'm sure Apple wouldn't be the only one receiving this kind of adoration. ..Sony was maybe in this class once. But IMHO recent console, display, and PC build-quality is suffering now.

Think you're reading too much into her comments dude. She said she *might* not go back to using a PC full-time (there, still open to windows) and is *certainly* not going back to something without Mac on it which, sure, if you want to take it literally sounds like she's married to Mac hardware ..but I think it's reasonable to assume that, if Apple hardware goes to crap like it did in the first sans-Steve era, she'll have the intelligence to re-evaluate her position. (Feel free to shoot her down if she doesn't though.) :) For now, it was just a one sentence. Don't consider it her mantra for life.)

Um, you did seem to be suggesting apple as one of the big corporations who killed the mom&pop stores. If I have to draw you a picture when bringing Bush into the big corporation argument, this is gonna take a real long time. C'mon! I put the words mom&pop and Bush in two connecting sentences!

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hehe.. Sorry, couldn't resist. :) (I could claim to not be a geek at this point, but heck, I just used html braces.)

A few years ago, in the PowerPC days, when the motherboard+CPU architecture wasn't being done by people (IMHO) as professional as Intel, and back when the cases were plastic (durable though it may be), and every second power-brick design had cables that frayed at the brick or plug, I too might have queried your wish to specifically go for a Mac Christina.

But now they've got such cool hardware (the Intel architecture + the unibody, the no-ugly-button glass trackpad, the glass screen, and light-up keys) and are truly becoming the centre of people's digital lifestyle (in seriously good ways ..I mean, look at iPhoto and iMovie now ..and then contrast with you're typical (disjoint) windows software bundled with Cameras) ..now that it's got to this stage, it's much easier to understand the desire to stay mac. I'd love to have a unibody mac myself, but I just can't justify it. Even either of the built-in battery models appeal. That's a ballsy move at the premium ends of the market.

Those who instantly assume a mac-zealot at the keyboard, and spit forth the 'stupid insular mac-user' comments, sound much more like the stereotypical mac-hater these days: hated OS8/9 at college, and don't know what a vastly different beast it is now. I wonder how many would be like that if they'd really used a modern Mac. (I mean *really* used, not just a few minutes at an Apple Store.)

Sorry, wasn't trying to "troll." Just open some eyes. Promise I won't post again for at least a year. (After this one of course.)

Apple makes good products, but I cannot understand why so many people think they are the ONLY ones worth buying.