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Too true, sir! And ably put.

Good to see you don't just accept opinion as fact. Though you seem to be looking to do so and just couldn't go that far with my pompous gas baggery.

That makes me suspect you are an apple fan, and your defense of apple as a company that makes ugly hardware that is easily upgradeable and great on spec is a little baffling, given their marketing focuses on easy usage, beautiful design and the word "magical" (correct me if I'm wrong there).

I concede that their hardware may be perfectly on par and even superior. I don't even have an anecdote. I was just going by an inquirer (the tech site, not the tabloid) report that put apple, sony and dell as more likely to break in some way or other than asus and hp. Maybe the study was bunk, of course.

But as far as apple users go...I don't really know if "dumb" is over the top. It might be for sensitive people who think "dumb/stupid" is a bad word.
The apple users I've known aren't dumb as people, they just don't know anything about computers. There are plenty of programmers who know everything using apple, too. So maybe that balances out and they're no different from anyone else.
I'm glad this was important enough to clear up.

As to your pre-emptive objection...I don't know what to say, except that I suppose you believe that apple really is bad and I'm wrong to retract yet people who buy it are computer savvy in doing so.
I'm curious, why is it that computer savvy people would buy computers that regularly break down? Maybe the upgradeability is so easy, that they upgrade to the max for the short life of the computer.