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I have been a regular Mac user since 2001, and had always tinkered with them before. One of the most annoying things I find about the platform is its user base

I have been a regular Mac user since 2001, and had always tinkered with them before. One of the most annoying things I find about the platform is its user base. I mean they types of people who would rail against Windows and Microsoft, and then freely admit that they had never used Windows a day in their life. Now there are hordes of users who are just flocking to the platform because it is so hot right now. A whole new generation of smug Mac users is born. I don't even bother going to the Apple Store unless I know I can get something fixed or exchanged right away, since it is invariably filled with giggling teenage girls that just want to ogle the shiny hardware. Maybe it's the inner hipster in me, but I almost feel like I have to ditch this scene now that it's so popular :)

James_Johnson 18y ago
Exactly. Now that I have a Mac, Mac fanboys all assume I'm one of them and come up to me in the coffee shop to say, "hey, aren't we so much better than everyone else because of the computers we bought?" I proceed to rant about all my little pet peeves about Mac OS X and say that as soon as I get around to it I'm installing Boot Camp and putting Linux on it.
- unalone 18y ago
  Aww, those are the bad Apples. I promise, some of us know that our system is flawed. (Not that we aren't smug, we're just realistically smug.) The college Mac type is inevitable, though. I'm biased, though, since I'm in college and have a Mac, so I don't get Mac Smug from other people.
unalone 18y ago
An artsy friend of mine insisted that he couldn't use Mac because it was too popular. He used Vista instead. Kind of silly, IMHO.