Am I an Apple Fanboy?
I think not.
Over at Valleywag today, I posted a comment on a post about Sony originally charging $50 per PC to remove the crapware that comes pre-loaded. I thought this was completely ridiculous and posted a comment about how one of the reasons I really enjoyed my MacBook when I first purchased it, was because of it’s “work out of the box” mentality. I didn’t have to wipe the drive, and reinstall the OS and set everything up before I could get to work. The only things I really had to do were to take my login picture, change the wallpaper, and install Firefox and NeoOffice.
This left one of the other commenters to go off on a rant about how I was an apple fanboy, who apparently owns 12 iPods (huh?) and looks like an asshole because when I go to Starbucks because I’m using a mac:
@floodcasso2: Hey, you know what’s great about my Dell? I got it for $1,400 with a 3 year warranty, it’s more powerful than a $2,500 Mac, and it came with the OS on a disk so I could do a fresh install the second I got it. Also, it doesn’t make me look like an asshole at Starbucks. And finally, I already know that Dell doesn’t give a shit about me, while Apple users seem to be experiencing some mass delusional episode in thinking Apple doesn’t give a shit about them. Your 12 iPods are the equivalent of all those Nintendo Gameboys.
Now people are entitled to their opinions, but this attack is just kind of silly. One, my MacBook was a little over $1,200. The 13″ Dell which was comparable in speed and memory was more expensive. Two, no one really cares what laptop you use at Starbucks. It’s a computer, not a status symbol. Though I do get people asking what I think of it, curious about switching from Vista. Three, I know that Apple doesn’t really care about more than profits, I just happen to like their OS. And Finally, I have a Zune. Not an iPod. When Apple gets a subscription service, and I don’t have to pay 99c a song, AND the iPhone comes to t-mobile, then maybe, simply because having one device do two device’s work is appealing to me.
So yea, fanboy? No.