Apple Collectors would be a good choice of going the nostalgia route. Community Forum would be another acceptable route. Honestly I don't care but it brings me to this history lesson/diatribe.
I'm 25 years old but I still remember the hayday of OS 8, 9, and the majestic release of the i-products. Then the release of 10.2/3 (10.0 and 10.1 were not great) which solidified the PPC Golden Era. Intel Macs for me have little nostalgic value. We are truly the nostalgic ones here I will assume and the iPhone iPad fan boys probably won't understand us.
If you want to talk about separating us from "them", us Apple, PPC users back then were a small niche group of people. The "them"/mainstream people were using windows XP and getting their Dells dude. The switch from PPC to Intel brought over a lot of Windows customers which is basically "them" people. They don't appreciate the product to the same extent they just buy it because it's the cool thing to do and they might get some looks from the 9000 other people using their MacBook Air at Starbucks.
In my opinion, Intel Mac ads just represent the exodus of the "mainstream" to Apple. Back in the PPC days people would say look this $2499 PowerBook is 1GHz while this Dell Laptop is $1249 and 2.5Ghz- so it's half the price and twice as fast why would I buy a Mac. They were different processors archetecture so the clock speed was irrelevant- Apples to oranges pun intended. You wouldn't believe how many people got hung up on that! Around 2003 Apples were around what- 1.25Ghz-1.5 G4's on average? PC Pentium 4's were ballpark 2.4 to 3+ GHz. Spec and price wise PC's looked way better.
Most people thought Windows > Mac because most people's experience had stopped well before OS X. Pre-OS X, i.e. feels pretty primitive to Windows 98/2000/XP. There were a lot of myths about not being able to use MS Office and comparability issues. Additionally, the younger generations (College, young adults) were the booming force in computer sales and many people used Apple in schools growing up. Apples were popular in education in the 90's and then dropped off by the early 00s. That meant no OS X exposure. The way you feel about PCs now is how people felt about macs- "they're garbage".
But Apple roles out these adds. People said, oh these computers look cute and cost just a little more for the same processor specs. My iPod works with them too. AND I can still run windows if I need to (heard that justification so many times). Apple was smart and pushed the boot camp/parallels thing knowing people would appreciate the peace of mind of familiarity (windows) by knowing they'd never go back.
Over time people seem to care less about listed processor speeds because of new processor, more energy efficent designs with lower clock speed. Also most PCs use Intel so your now comparing Apples to apples. People came to like Apple I think because of 2 major reasons. 1. Aesthetics and 2. Better software reliability than PCs. PCs and their viruses and spyware and Trojans and malware and all that crap. Ugh. Apples just worked. Let's face it most PCs still look like crap today.
So then these people continue to draw in the mainstream market. They're happy with their computers. But to most it's just an appliance, a luxury appliance- like a stainless steel refrigerator. I think most people now buy macs because it matches their latte, cardigan, and skinny jeans.
So for me the Intel transition brought over the mass market which has been great in some ways but bad in others. One of the bad things is just the loss of the small pure niche community that appreciated macs for their true essence. They had an emotional connection to the product itself, not the image of it. Rumors were rumors. Surprises were surprising. You could see a Mac user in public and think "that's a smart guy, he's knows something PC schmucks don't". Stock was $20 per share (prior to a few splits and dividends payouts along the way). Now people know Apples next product before they do because they're such a force in the economy.
I'm happy we have our own little fairy land here where we can play out our PPC era fantasies... And for so much cheaper now. I'm glad you're all here.
Now get this Intel crap out of here
(Oh God I'm starting to sound like my Grandfather with the "listen here son, In my day...")
