apple campaign discriminates against aspergerish people!

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That a fact? Or just something we suspect?

I hate the mac culture and its fanboys, but I have to agree that the commercial is funny, at least with John Hodgman in it.

True! And an Aspie knows that OS X knocks the socks off Windows. Besides, "cool" is a very subjective term dependent upon personal preferences. I love the PC guy because he makes me laugh. Even if I am not "cool" to other people, I would never associate myself with the PC guy---I'm a Mac all the way.

I turned into a Mac person after the twenty somethingth time I had to fdisk and reinstall Windows or as I have gained more experienced, restored from image. That and because of Windows Vista being so incredibly craptacular.

QFT.

I never thought of the IBM guy being aspie, just stupid. I think the ad is funny.

PS - I hate Microsoft and XP, because I am forced to use it. I think most new versions add little to functionality. I would like to see how Windows98 (or even 3.11) runs on a dual core processor with 2 gig of RAM compared to XP

I'm surprised Mac hasn't been sued over those commercials yet. Some of the stuff they say it just an outright lie, and a lot of it seems aimed at people who don't know jack nor s**t about computers.

While I find both the actors funny in everything else I've seen them do, this whole ad campaign just strikes me as obnoxious. There just like the attack ads you see every election season. Say outragous things about the competition so that people then assume your better.

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've had xp running on several computers for years now and I've only had to reinstall once on one of them and that was because of a virus I got out of my own stupidity. I also don't do any graphic modeling so maybe macs better at that, though with the hundreds if not thousands of graphics programs you can get for PC I don't see how mac can do anything that PC can't do.

But all that aside, until I can go out to any walmart and buy the newest game and come home and play it on my mac then PC is definetly better in my book.

My little contribution: what's more aspieish: being in a bussiness suit or working with the - very much more comfortable- jeans and sweater?

gross and dangerous generalization

just because computers pull a fair number of aspies doesn't mean we all know them, there statistically have to be at least some aspies that have never even touched a computer, let alone taken one apart, rounded their cables and smoothed their heatsinks for that extra five or six degrees

My opinion on this thread?
Well I am typing this on a Mac.
Steve Jobs could be an aspie but then most tech moguls probably are.
I think people should use whatever OS they like best and I happen to like Mac best.
I thought the commericals where hysterical
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