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Visited my sister in law and her husband this weekend in northwestern Illinois. He is an IT manager for a big manufacturing company or something. They're good conservative folk but somehow we get along just fine.While there, my 7 year old nephew was asking about me having an iPad and iPhone and asked if I had an Apple computer, and when I said yes he said "dad says Macs are for people who don't know how to use computers."
It pissed me off on so many levels. What does that even mean? Why does a 7 year old even know that to repeat it? What conversation came up where they even talked about computers they don't own?
I found a way in another conversation to basically tell him "yeah, I paid my dues, built a few computers, agonized over parts, reliability, scalability, etc and eventually wanted nothing to do with fussing over all that. A Mac does everything I need it to do, no hassle, always works.
- but it is true, don't want to butthurt people but most people I know who have macs have no idea how a comp works ;PGeorgesIV
- and are proud of it too, I think we should segregate them and make sure they don't reproduce, wait a fuckn min... ehheheeGeorgesIV
- yep this is a well known fact - they were made idiot proof for idiots when they went after big marketsfadein11
- In all fairness, any mass market product should be as idiot-proof as possible,ETM
- "Your daddy gets laughed at at work."cannonball1978
- It used to be the other way around; PCs were for the masses. Mac's for designers.jacklalane