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> I'm with Gilles in that the fanboys annoy; hell the fanboys of any product 
> annoy, but the Macboys seem to combine that aura of worship and smugness 
> more.
>

True story: some time ago a person was showing me one very specialised 
program he had been developing for almost 20 years. He had 2 gorgeous Macs 
and a non-descript Windows machine. During all the time I was there, he'd 
rant non-stop against Microsoft. Macs were fantastic, Microsoft incompetent 
and evil, yada yada.

Indeed, his XP machine could barely start and kept crashing. I could see 
however that
the machine was underpowered and, as usual, preloaded with OEM crapware 
(including Norton): a thorough clean-up and some RAM would have fixed it, 
but for him that was all Microsoft's fault. He didn't even run updates for 
fear of getting viruses.

So why did he work on the crappy Windows machine instead of his magnificent 
Macs?

Well, he used to develop his software for Macs, using Hypercard. People 
started asking for a Windows version so he had to develop this also. In 
2000, Apple stopped supporting Hypercard, and when OSX appeared, he 
discovered that his software could no longer run on modern Apple machines. 
Basically, he had just gotten shafted big time by Apple. His little business 
was able to survive thanks to the Windows version.

But that didn't stop him from praising Apple and calling Microsoft lots of 
dirty names. Yeah, fanboys.

G.

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