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BBC NEWS | Business | Apple Macs: Objects of devotion — This is quite an interesting article, worth reading whether you are an Apple devotee or not. The author really hits on something, that Macs may indeed be better than their Wintel counterparts, but a lot of “it” is just a sociological phenomenon. Yeah, I now count myself an Apple devotee and yeah, I often have to stop myself from trying to rub it in to my Wintel colleagues, especially at a university whose IT department is focused solely on Windows and nothing else. I rant about ignorance and lack of experience, and I think I have a point because like one of the comments toward the bottom of the above-mentioned article, I work in both worlds and have done so for many years. Most of the non-Apple people I know, and many of the Apple people I know, have had no real experience living in the other world. Anyway, I’m not sure if my thoughts are leading anywhere except to state that this article resonated with me. I can see the positives, as well as the negatives, of Apple’s “cult of the Mac.”