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The fashion thing is a bit weird. I know a few people who're seriously into fashion, but none of them use a mac. They all have crappy PC laptops (or netbooks) in shiny cases that barely work at all. I guess that's really buying for the brand and the look instead of the quality? They all have iPhones though.

psonice: they probably don't go around pretty often with their laptops?

true. And thinking about it, their homes tend to be generally a mess. Maybe trying to look pretty and expensive to cover up the rest of their lives :D

in terms of hardware, apple is a consumer electronics company.

in terms of software, you've got a working rewrap of netbsd in darwin, even if they made some questionable choices (some minor ones - not including the right version of netcat, and not including at all some other rather useful utilities, sigh).

That said, their slide further and further into the walled garden model is annoying.

And if Windows goes the way of 'trusted computing' . . .

I would pay good money for a Linux layout software as good as InDesign, or even Quark, and a PDF prep software as good as Acrobat Professional.
If I had that, I would never look back again.

because the Apple of my childhood is gone.

thank fuck for that... I would shoot myself if I had to use anything older than Tiger.

okay, maybe I would shoot someone else instead.