My powerbook was made imperfect by my imperfect, human self as well. It has tiny pits corroded out of it where I rest my hands when I type. Also, a nasty dent where I dropped it. And a hole in the front that I drilled in order to use a third party wireless antenna.

i will feel the same one day too. but sitting on the other end of the fence, i hear ya…you made the G**damn switch. it’s sad you have to say it that way due to the nature of mac elistists.

get off our backs already. just because ‘you’ (figuratively) use a mac doesn’t make you a better person.

Does the fact that I work at an Apple store make me a better person?

only if working at Yahoo does the same for me :p

I’ve had this experience as well. Mac users are so certain they are living in this better, perfect world, that they get a built-in disdain for “everything else.” During the Seattle laptop battles that I did in 2003 and 2004, I was swarmed by macs. Many owners went on and on about how mac was the only platform that was worth writing music on. Somehow, in spite of all this, I became the 2004 champion (using my PC laptop from work, no less).

This is not to say that PCs are categorically better. Definitely not. But people should be allowed to use whatever works for them. Telling me that macs are the only worthwhile place to do graphics and music seems elitist and pointless.

Good point Tom. I’ve worked on both all my “computing life”. I happen to like Macs better, but certainly it’s horses for courses. I do find myself getting elitist sometimes!

The takeaway here is exploiting human emotional reaction. We spend so much time in trying to make something useful & usable, it would be interesting to see the products we come up with if we started spending more time on the emotional response factor.

By the way, because of this post, my friend now says “sad words will give it sad dreams” whenever he sees my iBook