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I don' t own one, but I've used them and -- except for the fact that most of them still have a one-button mouse which is kind of like riding on a unicycle instead of a two-wheeler -- they work just the way they are supposed to, and I can get stuff done.
What I want to know is why people who own them are endlessly and incessently telling everyone who doesn't own one how wonderful they are? Or posit Mac vs (whatever other kind of computer)?
It's kind of like Episcopalians telling Presbyterians what's wrong with them. Or trying to figure out if Hulk can beat Superman (or Spiderman take Batman) (Or Wonder Woman whup Red Sonja).
Which afternoon was it that owning a particular computer became an article of faith, a mode of getting into heaven or acheiving salvation and not a tool for getting letters written or drawing pictures?
I don't get this kind of conversation about Nokia cellphones: only about Iphones. I've had IPhone users shove them in my face and show how cool the little video games it plays are. Well, they're right: they are cool.
But.
They don't help me to make phone calls. They don't make the other person's voice clearer. They don't do the things that I expect a telephone to do. They're not cute and cuddly like puppies or kittens either.
Now kittens. They purr! Puppies chase balls and wag their tails when they see you.
I haven't seen a MacIntosh Computer do that yet.
Oh crud. Now someone will invent a purring Mac and tell me what I'm missing out on by not buying one.
It will remind me with a cute voice or a text message every five minutes: "Vibrations sent by I-Purr."
Maybe I shouldn't have written this.
Just ignore the man behind the curtain.
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