Cult of the Mac

[j79]

Sorry if this was already posted....

Yahoo's News (Technology section)

http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/home/s...22/tc_nf/16433

"While some refer to this phenomenon as the Cult of the Mac, others call it nothing more than common sense. "

It is common sense. =D

[adambyte]

I think it's a little of both.

The cult of common sense.

[edX]

Although Apple has a reputation for premium price points, its latest offerings are arguably more attractive and offer better value than a PC equipped with comparable features, Giga analyst Enderle noted.

the premium price for a mac has always been a better deal than an equivilent pc. i have never bought a mac that didn't come so loaded with software you couldn't do do all the basic tasks on your first boot. apple's designs have just started to make people aware of this.

I can remember how i thought it was cool that apple finally switched to seperate cpu and monitors. but almost as soon as i owned one, i wanted my old all-in-one back. eventually apple figured that out as well and now the imac rocks.

any imac

[Izzy]

all my friends would mock me, call me crazy and laugh at me for loving my mac...i always told them that once you really try one you wont go back...lo and behold two powerbooks later one of my friends is no longer laughing and is a die hard mac user

it's all about quality...people recognize a quality product when they use one

[AdmiralAK]

It's just common sense -- My mac is 3 years old with teh same processor. It will probably last another 2 years maybe 3. Try THAT on a PeeCee

[sithious]

... the thing is, there's nothing to get cultish about with windows, unless your name is manicdvln ...
all my friends with peecees curse and swear about them constantly... they all hate microsoft, and my girlfriend, who, next to studying, works in a store that sells windows xp, amongst other things, tells me they've had loads of xp boxes returned by unhappy and annoyed customers that say they hate it and it doesn't work ...
so loving macs is pure common sense ...

[AdmiralAK]

How can people return windows to teh store (for a refund I assume) if teh box is open ? I used to work at the software department of a store and we would NEVER accept opened boxes.

[sithious]

... just checked with my girlfriend, she says they normally don't refund on software, unless the customer is really, really pissed, which apparently has been happening quite a lot with xp ...