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Not PC

According this article in Wired, PCs aren't PC on TV. The good guys use Macs, and the Evil Ones use PCs.

Gee, and I thought the good guys used Linux...

Posted by Rand Simberg at February 16, 2002 04:01 PM
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You know, I noticed the same thing ages ago. One blatant example of Macs=good/PC=bad was the romantic comedy _You've Got Mail_. It had a bit of a twist: Meg Ryan, the cutesy heroine with the cute neighborhood bookstore, used an ancient DOS-interface computer at her shop ('cos traditional is better even if less efficient!) and a cute little Mac Powerbook at home or in cafés, etc. Her soon-to-be-love interest, Rapacious "Capitalist" Joe Fox, owner of Fox Books, the Barnes & Noble-like Giant Chain Bookstore, used an IBM PC with Windows95 to do his emailing.

For some reason the live-in boyfriend of Meg's character was given a strange aversion to computers altogether: he refused to use anything but an electric typewriter. I think he was supposed to be an example of brand loyalty that goes _too_ far.

Posted by Andrea Harris at February 16, 2002 10:06 PM

But wouldn't they have to be really evil to use Mac's OSX?

Posted by Cal Ulmann at February 16, 2002 11:15 PM

And for years I thought that putting a handle on the pencil sharpener was a major step forward in communications technology, and that the manual typewriter was an instrument of Satan. Ah well, tempus fugit, I suppose.

Posted by akakyakakyevich at February 23, 2002 04:03 PM


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