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Good Guys Use Macs

Annamite writes "Wired news reports about the Mac as 'a good guy' conspiracy, while the traitor was busy hauling a Dell laptop. Can product placement be even better than this. What is next? OS war on screen? You can betcha anything comes out of AOL/TimeWarner would be of AOL/Netscape, but can Bill Gates buy the rest of the movies industry?" I've seen every episode of 24 so far, and did notice certain Macs and PCs being used, but didn't pay attention to who used which one. I probably would have been killed by the traitor.

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  1. Re:Space aliens use Macs by YanceyAI · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, the virus could have been a Word macro. It's difficult to infect a Mac, so I have to assume that the aliens were running Windows.

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  2. Hackers (the movie not the people) by trelaneopn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    amazing how the bad guys (the government etc were using compatibles) and besides the one reference to the new chip (which is way faster than the pentium) all the good hackers were using Mac's. No hacker ever uses a Mac, well untill darwin came around with a bsd tcp/ip stack and err well I digress

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