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Originally Posted by FanIn80
I'm breaking through barriers, brother, one lie at a time.
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Are you really? I get the feeling that you haven't really changed anyone's mind at all throughout this thread. And it's not you specifically either, this thread, on both sides, just seems to be preaching to the choir.
It's a pretty interesting phenomenon, and I'm not really sure how it happened, but the marketing companies of huge corporations have somehow managed to turn their purchase of their products into some kind of religious war between their customers. People have gone past thinking of computers as tools and instead think of them as some sort of lifestyle choice or even an extension of their personality. I don't know the reason for this, perhaps its because they're now so ubiquitous throughout society or we spend so much time on them, but I can't imagine something similar happening with Panasonic vs. Sony in the television market, for example.
If you ask me, it's really stupid. What ever happened to the common sense approach of buying the right tool for the right job? If you're a gamer, buy a PC. If you work a lot with graphics, buy a Mac. If you're just checking email and surfing the web, buy a netbook.
I think people who assume one platform is always better than the other, are seriously diluting themselves and arguing as such is why these threads never go anywhere. People need to realize a computer is just a tool.