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Burke, the funny thing about this thread is that you're the kind of Mac user who's exempt from all this bashing. You don't actually care about the brand, you just use it. :D

Hah! Imagine Steve Jobs sending out free OS X cds. No wait, how about free Madonna cds, without drm. :D

Well, not exactly. If Ubuntu spent the same amount of money on marketing that Apple does, it would be just as well known a brand by now. I mean in 3 years or whatever they could have taken over the world marketing wise if they wanted to.

= not filthy rich

You are such an expert on these wacky movements, what's your secret?

Some things just continue to perplex :D

What's ironic is that Apple now sells PCs. So all those arguments about Macs being better and faster (and hardware is what most people think when they talk about computers) fly out the window. They put their logo on it and insist that it's a Mac but you can go next door and buy a PC with the...

I saw an interview with Jobs on some youtube video the other day and about Microsoft what he had to say was this "I have no problem with them blahblah but it astounds me that they have such poor taste, they really make mediocre products". Now he didn't say "poor sense of technical quality", he...

You know this is what obscures technical debates as well. It's not like Mac is technologically rubbish, it's pretty decent (after all it's Unix :P), but it's hard to even debate technical merits, because there's this whole layer of marketing crust you have to peel off first, and get people to...

No, not me. I don't hate Macs, I just think they're insanely pretentious and overrated. But this guy does. And it's a story that perfectly illustrates how and why Macs (and their owners :P) can make one sick. I hate Macs Charlie Brooker Monday February 5, 2007 The Guardian Unless you have...