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In reply to the discussion: I don't get the whole iPad 3 craze. [View all]joshcryer
(62,296 posts)A Dell fanboy (do those exist) would get all worked up, most consumers of a Dell computer would look at you oddly, shrug it off, say they paid a low price at most, that it was all they could afford, etc.
Windows fanboys do exist, but in general they make up an extremely small percentage of users, and I don't even think I've seen one posting here on DU.
Someone mentioned Windows 8 recently but that was that, it was a rather mediocre post that I recall, not much drama, couldn't even classify that post as a Windows fanboy post.
It's the mass marketing blind consumerism that comes with Apple products. It's very much like a religion in many cases, with people championing the products above all else, and outright mocking "inferior" products that have a much more revolutionary purpose (like One Laptop per Child), a purpose which will ultimately change the world.
From my close circle of 'friends' all I ever hear about are problems with peoples' Mac's. I have a friend, another whose Mac gives them hell all the time, it's funny seeing their posts but I don't revel in it because they did spend a lot of money on it and I feel for them. Not that PCs are better, again, mind you. It's just, I don't know. Sometimes stuff doesn't work for people. If something doesn't work for me I'd rather have spent a lot less on it. My CPU is acting up, computer freezes occasionally and I think I've narrowed it down to the CPU itself. If I got a top of the line Intel chip and it was messing up, I'd be much more annoyed, but it's just a cheap AMD chip.
And before someone comes in here championing Apple product superiority and arguing that they don't break as often, etc. Sorry, but they use the same manufacturing techniques as all the other companies (in fact, as we've seen in the Foxconn discussions, it's often the same company).