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We have the guy who does all the PC troubleshooting and such here at work. I hardly go a day without hearing some brain-dead comment about "nice toy" or "other 95% of the computer market" etc...

One of these times I'm going to point out that while PC support is his sole duty with the company, since I need about 5 minuts a month for Mac troubleshooting, they put me on Graphics too...

Am I rambling?

one kid at my school said, when he first heard i used a mac, "o, sorry, i'll bet your iMac is broken right now. iMac makes horrible computers."  first, he thinks all macs are imacs and that there is an imac corporation.  what an ignorant dumbass!  he constantly makes cracks about imacs or "imac & co."  in latin, my teacher was saying his printer wasn't working and the someone said prices in decent printers have gone down and he says, "whatever you do, don't buy anything macintosh." and i was like wtf, apple doesn't even make printers anymore!

I have given up arguing about Macs and PC's. I really don't see the point anymore.

I have given up arguing about Macs and PC's. I really don't see the point anymore.

I'm in the same boat as you Swiss

I would have sqeezed his head off like a zit on a teen girls nose.

would you rather grill them on why macs are better, say w/e and turn around and leave, or insult back .??

I have given up arguing about Macs and PC's. I really don't see the point anymore.

Same here, theres no point. But yeah, i often get the normal weird looks and the dumb questions when i'm seen with a Mac. Pisses me off, but oh well. I once had a friend who told me that all Macs suck except for iMacs. I tried to tell him that an iMac is a normal Mac, but he didn't listen. Gah. And then there's this other guy who says that Macs sucks, and that Apple should burn in Hell, yet he uses QuickTime on a regular basis, saying how cool it is.....

some people's level of ignorance is utterly astounding

The phrase "I'll own your ass in any PC game that's out there" does wonders with the pc users I deal with.

Just a little story to make you all feel better. 

I was teaching PC repair at a small tech school(ya ya ya it's a job ok).  The whole class installed Windows 2000 on some Compaq PCs.  In just 30 min.  Every one of those PCs was infected with a virus.  My students did not use email, download anything etc...

30 min.  A virus ran the network and boom.  Class was over.



So when someone talks bad about your Mac.  Just ask them if there anti-virus software is up to date.




PC user=          Mac user=  

I was at Radio Shack looking for a S/PDIF cable to sync my M-Audio cards together... I told the sales person I saw one there a couple months ago, And asked if he could look it up for me.

he asked, "Whats it for?"

I told him it was for digital audio.  "Digital Coax" Connections.

After 15 min.  He asked what kind of computer,  So I said it doesn't matter, because it was simply for S/PDIF connections. I'm using a G4 Mac though...

He said  "OH,  We probably don't have it. Because Macs use weird cables."

I said it's the same cable a PC needs for S/PDIF.

He didn't believe me.


unbelievably Ka-Loo-less

Sounds like standard Radio smurfy intelligence (or lack of) to me.

"You've got answers, we've got questions."

My ex hooked up with some dude who was like a windows developer and he was like "Macs are rubbish, they're toys, windows are better".  I asked him had he ever used one and of course he had'nt. So I asked him how he could comment  on something he had never used? he said that he just knew they were.  I explained that Mac OS X is based on UNIX and also open source whereas Microsoft is based on DOS and Microsoft hoards its code like the evil overfiend it is.  Dude still was'nt convinced so I just left it.  Last month Dude got convicted of assaulting my ex and now he's in prison, I think thats an important statement on Windows developers.