Shortly following the recent news of my PowerBook G4 purchase (I got the 15″ SuperDrive version) the nutjobs came out.
“Downgrading, eh?” “But can it play Halo 2?” “Good choice. What did you sell your PC for?”
Is it so hard to believe that sometimes, people will want to stick to a mixed environment?
My Mac won’t have Paint Shop Pro. My PC won’t ship with free developer tools and bundled shareware (some fully licensed, some not). My Mac won’t have EditPad Pro. My PC won’t effortlessly connect to my cellphone over Bluetooth and download all my phone book contacts including pictures (in fact, my PC just gave up an eight month long bout with Bluetooth software somehow and started recognize my keyboard on startup again). My Mac’s not in the 90%+ percentile of the world market share. My PC doesn’t support the best programming framework and environment combination I’ve used to date. My Mac won’t run all the latest games. My PC doesn’t have Expos?©.
My PC is a sturdy iron hammer with a sometimes bug-infested wooden handle. My Mac is a swiss army knife in an aluminum enclosure. And me? I’m the kind of person who use both hammers and knives.