Pretty funny. Of course the ultimate irony is that he cut it on a Mac, and it got finished.
I could tell you stories of how many problems we had with PCs in our various labs and how much better behaved the Macs were, blah blah blah.
It's like old 911s. You either get it, or you don't. Same thing with a Mac. No value judgement there...just reality.
Good luck with your Dell