[G4] DO NOT INSTALL 10.2.8 PULLED BY APPLE

baggins baggins at ihug.co.nz
Thu Sep 25 04:14:42 PDT 2003


awesome comment their,
it's like Horses for course's....:-)
the spelling thing worried me more..????
but i suppose he has a good spell checker that knows the names of new and
obscure words..????
7 ?? 
nice i have 5 and may make it six in the new year.

 


on 25/9/03 8:01 AM, S. Stanley at scart at sympatico.ca wrote:

> I agree, I too prefer to see the correct names of things but, on the
> Internet you should pretty much accept that it is a given that people
> don't always know the names of things and everyone is guilty of making
> a typo now and again.  I think the fact that your pretentious enough to
> say that Mac users are better educated and more literate than PC users
> is the most offensive part.  Different people need different tools.
> Yes I love my Macs too but the purposes I use a Mac for aren't the same
> as everyone else.  Not everyone can afford a Mac or has the specific
> needs (i.e. multimedia design/production) to have to own a Mac.  Maybe
> some people just wanna surf the net or check their email.  Perhaps some
> of those PC people are resourceful and can use their $150 PIII's to do
> much more than you do on your Mac.  You'll probably never know.
> Perhaps you need more education to help you understand that making a
> stupid Mac vs. PC user intelligence comment is about as useful as
> having a Coke vs. Pepsi debate.  I used to work for Apple and like you,
> I was somewhat of a Mac elitist but I also own a PC and can see what
> potential they to can have.  I will always love my Macs more (I should,
> I have 7 of them) but I don't kid myself into believing that if people
> don't own a Mac, that they are less intelligent and don't have a decent
> computer.  I would be defending Macs users here if some PC user made a
> similar comment directed towards them.  I think this list would be more
> useful if we focus on helping people, rather than dissing them for
> using something different than you.  Everyone is different,  accept it.
> 
> 5c4r7
> 
>> 
>>> The model name is not "lombardi", it is "Lombard" without the "i" on
>>> the end
>>> and with a capital "L".
>>> 
>>> Sorry about the abruptness of this comment, but I get very tired of
>>> seeing
>>> ignorance displayed on this bulletin board. I was of the opinion that
>>> Mac users
>>> were better educated and more literate than the majority of the world
>>> who use
>>> PCs.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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