[X4U] MacMini Analysis [satire]

[Birgit Rhoads]

His satire is VERY subtle! The best kind. He must be receiving a lot of 
angry e-mails from the Mac community LOL.  He wrote the same subtle 
humor comparing Windows and Linux:  
http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/mcse2.htm
Birgit
On Feb 4, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Robert Ameeti 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.
>
> What many are missing is that this is written by an informed Mac user 
> who has chosen satire to make fun of the Windows operating system.
>
> There is nothing in the article but inaccuracies and statements about 
> how wasteful, unproductive, and inefficient the Windows OS is. The 
> closing comment, for those that don't get satire, is making fun of all 
> the time that a Windows user spends doing totally undesirable tasks. 
> Tasks that are only necessary on the Windows platform and due to the 
> Mac's inherent security, are unnecessary on the Mac. The HAVE to use 
> those products, while they don't even exist on the Mac.
> -- 
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