MonkTrader

but that would’t fit neatly into the category here, so I’ll settle for this one.

I’ve never owned an Apple, and really can’t afford one, but somehow I’m sure that when Leopard shows his spots I’ll manage to get one.

Frankly, I don’t think I’ll ever be a “switcher,” I do love my PC and have programs I enjoy running from it and refuse to use “Bootcamp”—that just seems silly. What I don’t like about Windows is the rather homely interface and running antispyware and adtracking removal programs that show up almost daily. What I do love is my 4G iPod and iTunes (well, version 6 anyway – the current one sucks as much as anything Microsoft ever put out).

I don’t anticipate Windows getting any easier to use with Vista.

What I don’t like about Apple, Inc. is the snobbery associated with it and the elitist attitude and if something ever goes wrong with a peripheral or software glitch that it’s written off to the fact that most people are using Windows / Microsoft and that somehow caused the problem. (I’m sure someone will say or think, then just go back to using Microsoft or Linux).

Things DO go wrong with Apples, as in my friend whose Firefox updated and rendered both his Apple laptop and desktop unusable until he took them in to a shop—and he’s pretty technically savvy. In partial defense, he did find a forum to help him get the laptop going on his own. Now the Apple true believers tell me emphatically it was a problem with Firefox. I say it was a problem with Apple as well when his two computers “just [didn’t] work.”

This same friend who loves his Apple (rightly so, it’s a wonderful computer) had two go dead in his office, basically out of the box. It does happen.

I guess what I’m objecting to is the “cult ure” of Apple. People seem to get this glassy-eyed look on their face that I’ve seen in Scientologists decrying psychiatry.

Well, I did love iTunes which led me to my iPod and will lead me to an Apple laptop sometime late this year, depending on Leopard. I’m just not going to be buying the free hype that comes along with it. It’s either that or skip it altogether and go for the ”$100 laptop” which meets 90% of my computing needs anyway.

Ok. So I want to play around with ancient computer software and reminisce about when my first computer hard drive was 250 megabytes and this was all I’d ever need.

I love the Portable Apps Suite (google it sometime) with Open Office and write from time to time in AbiWord, which is a wordprocessor with a tiny footprint and all I’ll ever need.

I’m changing to the other forum “Renounce United States citizenship” because this seems like it would be easier from a search point of view.