Letters to the Editor
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Salon is a great example of that
Anything not completely with the official politik, the one true credo, is scorned, hated, insulted.
This is why tech reviews are generally a waste of time. The fans are fans because they are fans and everyone else is a hater because it gives them something to do. I pointed out once that not having a removable battery in the Mac Air seemed like a trivial thing until apparently every globe trotting geek on the planet told me how their very life would be imperiled if they couldn't play games on that 17 hr flight they make weekly between NY and Singapore. Or whatever. I guess what it comes down to is, whatever is important to you is so vital so crucial that there's no such thing as compromise for that one holy feature. No one else cares about it, they have their own things they can't live without.
But here's a hint: 97% of all computer owners out there never even know about 97% of the functions on their computers. This is the one truth that Apple gets. The Mac Book air is small. That's all you need to know about it. Nothing else is germane in any way. Not the guts, not the feature set, not the things it DOESN'T have, not the performance. Nothing.
And geeks and tards never understand that. They're babbling to each other about liquid cooled RAM because they think it will give them the 0.000034% performance boost they need. And boy do they need it. It is oxygen itself.
If you don't believe me, go to any weekend cycle (bicycles) and make a mental list of the over 45 year olds riding $4-6,000 rigs. It's quite a bit. But neither can you tell them that the torsional rigidity of that kevlar/carbon fibre wheel isn't going to make a damn bit of difference to a middle aged guy who's 25lbs overweight and still smokes cigars occasionally.