"Dude, get a macbook! They're much faster, better and shinier than your obsolete laptop!"
Then i say: "They're not."
They say: "Yes it is! It can do all the heavy stuff and boots in 10 seconds."
I say: "Yet my *airquote*obsolete*airquote* laptop beats the cheapest macbook with ease and it's still 500 bucks cheaper then a macbook! And if i put some time in it i can get even better boot times than that. And i can run all that heavy stuff on a 5yrs old laptop already without any imperfection in the result. I don't have to get a new one every few years because apple decides to drop support. I don't have to pay huge amounts of money to have a part replaced and pay for the part and wait for several days before they give you the thing back, i buy the part for <100 bucks (in general that's their cost) and use my trusty screwdriver to swap the parts in about an hour."
Then they say: "But mac's are made by APPLE!!!"
I say: "So? To me, all laptops are equal. I choose on what has the best specs for the best price with the best hardware. I couldn't care less about the brand or the looks (though i dislike the plastic feeling of most laptops)."
Then they say: "APPLE stuff is always better than stuff from other makers."
I say: "Why? Because of the price? Or is it because hollywood uses them all the time, and that's just because apple has a deal with them."
Then they say: "It's just better because it's APPLE."
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