Jobs has an anti-button fetish, making the Ipod a non-starter for me with cold hands or gloves on.
Not meant to be funny—and it is extremely relevant.
If your buddy always has the latest/greatest Mac, then he got it with a five button, scroll ball mouse. He just needs to turn it on.
You think you know what you're talking about... but you really don't. Why not defer to people who really do know what they are talking about when they are talking about Macs?