I did laugh - but my MAC thread didnt get many responses because I think the MAC users got a bit upset with it - so I predict you wont get any either...

It'd be a squeeze, I'm afraid. Any other takers?

I saw the very same article this morning.

I work in IT and we use both Mac’s and PC’s a lot of what these type of attacks on a particular operating system only seem to highlight the person writing it’s ignorance of their subject matter.

“computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work”

So just forget about the base OS which is a BSD based OS which might not mean much from someone who prefers an operating system that:

“Sometimes you have to slap it to make it work properly, just like the Tardis (Doctor Who, incidentally, would definitely use a PC).”

Not withstanding what Doctor who may use the fact that I could import and run almost all of my unix shell scripts from cron on the Xserver we have running here, NFS mount to Sun servers hook it into Active directory and share to both Appletalk and Windows without much fear of a blue screen of death the additional fact that 2.2 tera bytes in a raid cost us less that 7K (lets see a windows server that can do that!).

"Why has this rubbish aspirational ornament only got one mouse button?"

The answer is that in almost all cases of someone who uses a Mac (and I know a lot) use keyboard shortcuts – dragging the mouse all over the shop and clickty clicking is just lazy.

And I’m sorry but attacking the platform and OS when talking about writing a novel is just silly, if he had talked about formatting a magazine article, editing pictures or performing any type of music creation or indeed video then he’d be stuffed as it stands any windows OS from DOS up with a text editor is about all you need to write a novel and a pen and paper would still probably be best.

That’s my two pence worth.

P.S. just so we are clear I think all operating systems are gash in one way or another only pretentious hacks with an ego the size of a house would attempt this kind of attack.