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The funniest thing about this stuff is that while PC users always paint Mac users as being zealots and elitists, the first thing that happens when someone starts saying they like a Mac is that the PC users come out of the woodworks with their standard rhetoric:
"I can build a system with 100GB of RAM and 20 terabytes of hard drive space and an XForce 782300000000CJS 1580GB video card with a 40" monitor for only $500 and I can do it in 10 minutes!"
"I never have problems with viruses/spyware/adware/system crashes because I'm not an IDIOT, I know how to use my computer!"
"I can use my computer for 50 YEARS! All I have to do is slap in a new hard drive that I can buy at a gas station! You MORONS have to buy a new computer every three days!"
Not to mention the mistruths being spread around:
"Mac software costs, like, a hojillion dollars and there's only THREE programs out there!"
"Macs only have a one button mouse. Wait, they don't even have that. They have NO buttons."
And of course there are the Linux users, whose arrogance and condescension towards users of another platform is staggering.
I just don't understand why PC users get so riled up about this. Some of the lies I'm seeing here are truly ancient, stuff I haven't heard since before 2000. Just try to see past your enormous e-penis and go research some of this stuff before you fly off the handle about it.
