HI all,
Below post contains humour and some mac user abuse.
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:22:47 +1000
> From: DMcD <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 69, Issue 46
> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia."
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>(I'm a particularly shallow
> person)
Redundant, as a mac user that is a given. (Apart from certain email list owners
and their employees.)
> It's aesthetics, pure and simple. And that is not style over substance.
This is known as the the mac reality distortion field, where the 5% of computer
users who use macs justify spending twice as much for the same hardware with a
slightly different case. In fact I am typing on a laptop that is more powerful
than any mac laptop available now, but was still 1/2 the price of the most
powerful mac laptop!
>
> There may be PCs which have won design awards. There may be PCs in the
> museum of modern art. There may be examples of PC software which have
> won design awards for their wonderful interface. There may be creative
> industries where people use PCs.
Ah graphic designers eh, they who can use a mac but cant read, whose job
function is to remove any remaining relevant content and replace it with
a flashy but uninformative diagram.
>
> But in the vast majority of cases, it ain't so. Macs have won
> shedloads of awards for industrial design, software and interface
> design and are overwhelmingly the choice of people working in creative
> industries
Who would be just as happy with as set of crayons and a piece of paper.
Was true of music industry 10 years ago, now most use PC.
. And there are very, very few programs which are not
> available on a Mac.
Yeh, right just 95% of them...very few
Oh and you know how to make potatoe, leak and elitist minority soup?
Just peel and dice 5 potatoes, 5 leaks and a mac user......... (-:
Regards
Dave
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