
By Seb Janacek
Published: Tuesday 11 July 2006
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The Mac is like your mate’s embarrassing dad - you know - the one who's just bought that new sports car, and says 'cool' a lot. His gear is ill fitting - and where did he get that new silicon from? Is anyone really fooled into thinking the Mac is 'young'?
Despite recent uncomfortable shifts away from everything that differentiated it, at its core old Mac is the same as he ever was - proprietary - and that is why hardly anyone uses it. (According to the latest OS stats - Mac has an almost invisible 3.6% of the market)
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