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Old 12-30-2008, 03:03 PM   #45
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But there are also people who know who Clarus the Dogcow is, rebuilt a desktop, allocated RAM to Photoshop, built HyperCard stacks, transitioned to PowerPC to IBM 601 to Motorola 604 to IBM G3s to Motorola G4s to IBM G5s to Intel Core Duos, cried when Bill Gates showed up on screen at Macworld Boston, the Newton, Mac clones and remember Steve Jobs the first time around and have been preaching the cult of the Mac long before Halo was a Mac only game.

For some, they are a vanity item but so are Ferrari's. Doesn't mean you should take one for a rip given the chance.
Or spent hours typing a program from a magazine into an Apple IID and remember Lisa.

Sure, there are people who have used both and actually lived through the evolution of most of them, and prefer one of the other for their own very good reasons.

But right now it is vogue to hate MS and love Apple. And both those opinions need to be tempered somewhat because, as you so clearly pointed out, products change massively and what was true yesterday may not be true today.
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