By Seb Janacek
Published: Monday 05 February 2007
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Tickles Bamboo
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Leaving aside the glaring errors this article makes about the reasons for moving to Intel chipsets and the price of Macs, one is left pondering why it has become so fashionable to bash Apple?
Where are the articles about the 10 best things about Macs?
The answer is, possibly, that praising Apple won't win you as much attention as bashing Apple will.
I see Charlie Brooker's Guardian blog piece entitled 'I Hate Macs' is doing the rounds this morning and no doubt topping the Guardian's daily traffic charts. The irony is of course that the piece carries Apple ads, so even the anti-mac zealots are doing Apple's work for them.
[Ed. Note: This article clearly states silicon.com will soon be publishing an article about the 10 best things about Apple.]
<1. The 'reality distortion field'>
It is easy to...
Anonymous
Leaving aside the glaring errors this article make...
Tickles Bamboo
Hello, hopefully I am not one of the nut jobs you ...
Anonymous
I completely agree with this article, although you...
Anonymous
I have to chime in on a pretty large factual error...
Keith McDaniel
I told myself to hold my peace until the 2nd-part ...
Ken Cheng
One worst thing about Microsoft and community: the...
HG
As predictable as the sun coming up every day...
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Fecal Extrusion
Ha ha ha - "We're not talking about the vast major...
Anonymous
"Songs purchased at the iTunes store are encoded w...
Anonymous
And as predictable as the sun coming down everyday...
Anonymous
Aye sire! There certainly are a few diehard Mac ze...
Anonymous
Show me a Dell that specs the same for the half th...
Anonymous
Truly an idiotic article.
...mostly unquestioni...
Joe Robbins
Great way to kill all the critisism towards your a...
Anonymous
You do have many valid points on your article.
...
Anonymous
The problem we macs users (it's fine to call us a ...
joe belkin
Just about everything here is wrong. You made you...
Anonymous
Possible explanation re: the Mac faithfuls
prop...
BillH
rated it the worst offender on a list of PC compan...
macbones
'Kay.
Number 7... iEverything, eh? It so makes ...
flyermoney
I always try to go easy on sufferers of infantile ...
Anonymous
uh oh, another master baiter!
Dvorak
Most of this is easily refuted. Why bother?
Steve Nagel
I taught a class in microprocessor applications. O...
James Bradley
I think God should bring down on you, much fire an...
I'm not really being serious.
Like the article.
At least someone will stand u...
Anonymous
Lest we forget the megahertz myth? Whatever happen...
Anonymous
Boy...this article is a reach. If consumers are w...
Anonymous
must be a slow week at silicon....or perhaps you n...
RMW
My two cents worth.....I've been a Mac user for ov...
Marco Marchant
Add to this; the abandonment of Firewire in later ...
Steve West
I just love these articles. It goes to show one t...
Anonymous
Hmm, interesting article, even more interesting co...
Simon
I'm sure most of us can distinguish between apple ...
Anonymous
I wouldn't call Apple users lunatics. We do love o...
Anonymous
yup, aPPle is a lot of hype, little else
asdf
This article doesn't hold water. The reasons you ...
Anonymous
Well said Ken. Looks like Seb has to go back to c...
Hammer of Truth
Isn't Seb Janacek an anagram for
Jack as been?
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anony mouse
I just want to say 3 things.
Market share, mark...
Roy M. M.
How about 10 UNIQUE bad things?
Minus the iPod,...
Anonymous
Except that these days if you get an equivalently ...
Anonymous
My problem with the Apple crowd is how they treat ...
JJ
A Dell is in fact almost 2X the price of a Mac Pro...
Anonymous
Apple may have the portable music market on lockdo...
Bob Brinkman
Ho hum... news a bit thin on the ground again Seb?...
Roy Judd
I too suspected Apple of grievous crimes against o...
Justin R
An equivilent Dell now costs more than the Mac Pro...
Anonymous
Help, help! I am an Apple Fan, but obviously not e...
Jobs a good 'un
While its wrong to say an apple is twice the price...
JC
<However, the old arguments persist over why a con...
Scott Silver
While there are genuine gripes I have with apple.....
Anonymous
I didn't read the rest of the comments so forgive ...
Anonymous
Most commentators who claim derisively that Apple ...
Alan Ainsworth
Have you ever in your lifetime heard someone utter...
Anonymous
nice try. as a recovering wintel user I often lik...
R Pettengill
Does anyone really care? It is so boring to go thr...
Ian Paterson
Not that I needed to prove this, but the guy who s...
Anonymous
1. RDF is a fair complaint, this inquirer article ...
Infernoz
Wow,
Jealously runs deep. The one thing you fo...
Anonymous
very accurate, also what I hate about apple is tha...
Doug
Oh how true is No 10. They are here in their drov...
Bengie
"Your $500 cannot run OS X?"
Which world do you...
Winstar52
Number 10: Woohoo! They're coming out of the woodw...
Dan
Seb you've got too much time on your
hands, get a...
Anonymous
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