Why do people love Macintosh?

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Part one of: Macs - A Love/Hate Relationship

So, I had to buy a Mac yesterday for the business. I'm interested in knowing why people love these [seemingly] overpriced machines. What is it about them that has created such devoted customers?

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Beautiful Hardware

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Most PC hardware is, unfortunately, butt-ugly whereas Apple is setting industry standards, not just for hardware appearance, but f... [show more]

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Free Cult Membership

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Mac OS X

The operating system, especially the latest iteration, is vastly superior to Windows XP--and not just in looks. Spotlight, for exa... [show more]

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UNIX foundation

Solid as a rock. http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/... [show more]

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Quality

Or at least the perception of.

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No Clippy the Paper Clip

If that bastard touches my screen one more time, I'm going to flip!!!!!

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Less viruses

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Eye Candy

...Even if it is at the expense of clock cycles and RAM.

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They come with handles!

So you can pick them up and throw them when you get mad

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Crisp and Juicy, but not too sweet.

Whoa, google images didn't show an actual fruit until page 15 when searching for macintosh.

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Grandparent friendly

I'm not saying PCs are difficult, but Macs definitely put a new perspective on simplicity. It kind of has a 'click-and-goal-is-com... [show more]

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myollnir 2 years ago

Gotta love cults that don't need any poisoned Kool-Aid

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Sam 2 years ago

Maybe... but sometimes you wish that they DID have poisoned kool-aid...

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SweetlilCherry 2 years ago

have you seen that commercial where there is a guy being the P.C a younger guy being the mac and then this cute Japaness girl being the camera and they hold hands and make a network and then she pulls a picture from out of no where! love it

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ngsun 2 years ago

Yeah cherry, that *is* a clever commercial...
Though those commercials are still steaming loads of crap, in that they're entirely deceptive, inaccurate, and downright wrong. :D

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SweetlilCherry 2 years ago

I don't care it was a cute commercial! I like the new one where the pc dresses up in spy wear hahaha and tells the mac don't tell anyone you saw me! hahahaha spy wear! Funny!

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This topic was started by aTrack aTrack has 1,153 Grupie Points on May 10th, 2006. 92 grupies have voted on one or more of the 13 answers.

Tags: imac, ipod, mac, macintosh, macs, technology

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