[X4U] MacMini Analysis [satire]

[Joe Sporleder]

Come on people! Don't take everything you read so literal! It was meant 
to be humorous! Satire and sarcasm are often intended to be witty forms 
of humor, unfortunately, the humor can be too subtle or too obvious for 
some people to grasp! :-)

Joe

On Feb 4, 2005, at 9:02 AM, Keith Whaley wrote:

> Jim Robertson wrote:
>
>> On 2/3/05 2:10 PM, "John Baltutis" <baltwo at san.rr.com> wrote:
>>> Spotted at MacInTouch. Check out
>>> <http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/MacMini2.html>, especially the
>>> hilarious conclusion:
>
> If this is what you meant, John, his statement:
>
> "Secondly and possibly even more glaringly, there is no antivirus 
> program shipped with the Mac.  In today’s climate of non-stop worms, 
> trojans and viruses, releasing a computer with no virus removal 
> software is irresponsible on the part of Apple."
>
> ...is enough for me.
> Sounds like a Windows geek, required to write at least SOMEthing about 
> the new Mini, and this is part of his ill-informed observation.
>
> Part of his conclusion:
>
> "When I consider that a good deal of my time is spent running 
> applications like Disk Defragmenter, Scandisk, Norton AV, Windows 
> Update and Ad-Aware--none of which are available for the Mac 
> platform--it doesn't make sense for me to "switch" to a Mac at this 
> time. "
>
> ...was the clincher.
> What a nerd! He compared crippled Windows' needs to what a Mac needs, 
> which is NONE of all that malarky.
> This guy is the wrong one to have comment on any Apple Mac product.
>
> Oh yeah, this is just my most humble opinion, too...
>
> keith whaley
>
>> I just spent a few hours at divisiontwo. A few mouseclicks and you're
>> hooked!
>> Jim Robertson