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This reminds me of a hilarious story about an elderly woman I know. She works for a newspaper and in their offices they've always been provided Macs. She's always used them now refuses to use anything other than a Mac. One day she asks me to take a look at a probelm she has getting a dailup connection to work. Fortunately, I was able to figure it out even though I'm a Unix/Windows guy, but anyway... I say something to her like, if you would just get a wintel box, all kinds of people would be able to help you whenever you have a computer problem since that's what the majority of people use these days. Of course she refuses to switch because "nothing is as good as her Mac." I get talking to her about what she actually uses it for, and there are three main things... 1) Microsoft Internet Explorer 2) Microsoft Office 3) Playing solitare. WTF!? Anyway, I don't really have the heart to tell her she's just using dumbed-down ported versions of the real thing. She's convinced that Macs are the only computers she'll ever use, and nothing is going to change that anytime soon.
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