Anyway, lets play “spot the mistakes and out-of-date generalisations”in this 4-minute segment:

How did you go? Here’s my list:

“It’s the personal technology preference that’s becoming a philosophical battle…”

More like it has been going on for now over 2 decades.

“8% worldwide, which is not alot…”

Oops, spoke too quickly…8% of one of the world’s largest market is a hell of a lot more than “not a lot”. Check the market shares of major manufacturers in other industries (the car industry is used regularly as an example for this). Take away business PC sales and suddenly that figure is a lot higher. Forgetting market share though, Apple is worth more than Google, and could buy Dell with their spare cash. Looking at just market share is grossly missing the point. Not to mention, Apple and Steve Jobs have transformed not just one market (which itself would be a major achievement, but four — music, mobile phone, computer and portable music player and five if you count retail store design — an epic achievement the likes of which have not been seen before.

“It works with a lot of other Apple devices…”

It works with most every computer connected device currently on the market, excepting fairly obscure or specialised equipment.

“Touch is a big part of what is available in Windows 7.”

So who actually uses it? Just like who uses tablet computers? Not many people. The difference between touchscreen features in Windows 7 and the iPhone touch screen is that the latter is something you use always, and the former is amusing for about 5 minutes before you stop bothering.

“…the IT geeks just hate Macs…”

I’d honestly have to say that most people I’ve ever encountered who had an MCSE were clueless about computers. They don’t know about Macs, so a Mac is a threat to the illusion that they know what they are genuinely knowledgeable.

“…all of the things happening in the background are driven by PCs.”

The internet runs on operating systems most similar to what is behind much of Mac OS X. What businesses tend to use involves file sharing and collaboration, which Microsoft has dominated the market of for many years. Apple software has been compatible with it (admittedly to varying degrees) for some years now.

“There was a time when files made on the PC wouldn’t work on a Mac.”

Err…when? What files? MS Office was originally written for the Mac and you don’t need to run Windows in Parallels to view PC files. Admittedly, later he said Windows-only applications.

“Does it come down to [better machines for better groups, such as creative people etc]?”

No. I’ll give you some grouping though that is actually realistic: People that want to get things done should buy a Mac. People that want to spend a lot of time screwing around keeping their computer working should buy a Windows PC.

“If you’re not computer savvy, choose a Mac.”

If you ARE computer savvy, choose a Mac too, as there is a lot of powerful “under the hood” technology which can be leveraged if you know what you’re doing too.

Sad, that after all these years, the GadgetGuy has nothing intelligent to say beyond tired cliches, re-hashed from almost exactly 3 years ago to the day.

Finally though, it was amusing he chose the HP’s touch screen as something the Mac can’t do. Unfortunately for him, he should have done some research beforehand, as he would have discovered that touch screen technology has been available for the Mac since 1987.