Re: A2Central News

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <Nv2dnWqVqrxbK5DYnZ2dnUVZ_tGdnZ2d@bresnan.com>,
Terry Olsen <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote:

>> I never ever "swore never to buy a Mac".
> 
> You may not have, but I know lots of people who did. Some are still around. 
> I'm not saying anything bad about those who did.  If someone swore to never 
> buy a Mac, and then eventually did, fine. Things change. But for those who 
> did swear to never buy a Mac, and then did at a later point in time, to then 
> treat me like some sort of lower life form because I never did become a Mac 
> convert is pure hypocracy.

Of course it is .... but hypocricy is a very common property among religious
zealots --- including those who have a particular computer as their religion...

>> No, it doesn't take an idiot to do that on XP -- all you need to do is
>> to e.g. install a buggy device driver.
> 
> True enough. But to listen to Mac zealots, when it happens to XP, it's XP's 
> fault. XP is a crappy, bloated, & buggy OS.  But when it happens to a Mac, 
> it's the fault of the 3rd party drivers or software.

That's called "rethorics"....  :-) ....but then you can ask back how
come the Mac allows the user to load 3rd party drivers, without
warning them that the driver has not been certified by Apple.  Win-XP
issues a warning in the corresponding situation.
 
>>> He then went on to tell me how the Mac is "un-crashable".
>>
>> ....another example of the salesman's pitch at work....
> 
> I could understand that if Best Buy actually sold Macs.

:-) ....ok, then the salesman was an unprofessional zealot who let
his personal preferences take priority over what's good for his
business.....

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