OT: Mac vs Win partisanship is unnecessary

[Richmond]

On 07/22/2010 08:39 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Richmond wrote:
>
>> On 07/22/2010 08:23 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>> Bob Sneidar wrote:
>>>
>>> > But I also agree that for years Mac users have been very
>>> > unfairly criticized for liking and using an OS that wasn't
>>> > the status quo.
>>>
>>> Welcome to Linux in 2010.
>>>
>>> I'm making sticker for my Lenova with an Ubuntu logo and this caption:
>>>
>>> "Think really different."
>>
>> Yes, but what might be thinking really "different" today may become
>> mainstream tomorrow;
>
> I certainly hope so. :)
>
>> and "thinking different" just for the sake of being awkward can prove
>> rather destructive.
>
> Of course.  Choosing any product, whether it's an OS or a vacuum 
> cleaner, should ideally be done on the rational merit of the product.
>

I bought my first Mac because when my wife and I landed in the US we had to
have a PC for student work: I hadn't a clue . . . looked in a Montgomery 
Ward catalog
and saw "Macintosh", and so bought an LC 470 because my Granddad's name was
McIntosh . . . rational enough for me . . .  :)