I haven’t always been a fan of the Matrix, but while watching Reloaded a couple weeks ago, the struggle between man and an inhuman army of machines reminded me of the struggle between Macs and PCs. Actually, it reminded me of specific “Mac wars” I both heard about and encountered on college campuses and in the business world, where an IT department arbitrarily decides that the world would be much better if everyone conformed and used whichever platform the IT decided was best. This was always Windows and Intel. I figured it’d be fun to create a Matrix parody to retell the story.

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