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Wow. Somehow I've become the embodiment of every misconception people have about Mac users. Okay, fine.
"Yes, Jake. We already established the Apple model is to make you think you have the best. The airline passengers in first class are definitely more satisfied in surveys I would venture to bet."
What's your point, exactly? Have you ever flown first class? Are you arguing that first class *isn't* really a more satisfying flight experience--it's just that the airlines' model is to make their first-class passengers *think* the extra room and better food makes for a better flight? Besides, the surveys were taken by *PC World* of *PC World* readers.
I never told anyone here they should get a Mac. Certainly nobody who wants to build a machine to play Bioshock should buy a Mac. At the same time, to say that all Macs have going for them is simplicity and cool is just ignorant. Almost as ignorant as saying Macs still only have a one-button mouse: I've been using a two-button mouse with a scroll wheel for over a decade now. (I could use 5 buttons if I wanted to; I don't.) Even Apple makes a two-button mouse now, though I don't know anyone who likes it. I bought my two-button mouse at Office Max; I bought my Microsoft keyboard at CompUSA in the general keyboard department.
"That's what 'running software that's consistently reviewed as the best available' gets you in a market characterized more by dogma than technical knowledge."
Is this the same market that chose Windows because it's a better value? Or is this the dogma that leads the *PC* Magazine reviewer to say, "After three intense days with Apple's Mac OS X Leopard Version 10.5, I have three main things to say about it. First: despite minor problems, it's by far the best operating system ever written for the vast majority of consumers, with dozens of new features that have real practical value..."?
See, when I read these letters, I don't see Mac users trying to convince PC users to switch. I see PC users ridiculing Mac users for their choice of computers. Go, use your Ubuntu machine and be happy--I'm sure you have the machine you want. I have a lot of respect for people who build their own machines and put Linux on them. Just give us the same respect, that we have the machines we want and for equally valid reasons.
