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  • WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 4 2004 12:07 PM

Mac Users Take Their Computers Very Seriously

Submitted by Gwendolyn

Edited by Gwendolyn

Overclockers.com published a story last week that got Mac lovers everywhere talking... about killing the author. Sent in by someone calling themselves Andy and complete with pictures, the hoax described the gutting of an expensive new G5 and the subsequent rebuilding- using parts belonging to a budget PC. Mac users weren't laughing, however, and his inbox was soon overrun with e-mail messages like this one:

"I hope your PC blows up and leaves your miserable face disfigured forever. You will surely burn in hell for an eternity for this one."

Realizing the emotional uproar he caused, Andy sent the site an apology to post, saying that he had never expected such a reaction.

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the_bad_guy

the_bad_guy

Columbus, OH
August 2002

FEB 04, 2004 12:56 PM

love I luvs my G5 dual. love

punk

punk

Phoenix, AZ
January 2004

FEB 04, 2004 07:34 PM

I read this earlier today...

The really scary part is that, regardless of how many people may have been kidding in their e-mails, some of them were serious.

It's a fuckin' computer!

In the words of my Australian friends: "Oi! Crikey!"

recursive

recursive

Los Angeles, CA
January 2003

FEB 04, 2004 07:59 PM

Man, some Mac users really are just crazy insane. They make the rest of us look bad. It's just a freakin computer.

He shouldn't have apologized, he should have just done his very best Nelson voice from the Simpsons and said "Ha Ha!"

AceTracer

acetracer

Hollywood, FL
January 2004

FEB 04, 2004 08:41 PM

Saying you gutted a $3000 desktop to fit it with $350 in PC parts is stupid whether he did it or not (still to be determined). I wasn't so much disturbed by what he did to the computer but what he could've done, e.g. selling the G5, buying a cheaper G5 and still having enough money for two Dells.

Bottom line, this was a ploy for hits, hitting the buttons they knew would bring it to them. 300,000 a day is the most that site has ever gotten, kudos for the brilliant idea, whoever thought it up.

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