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Computers are inanimate objects. They do not cultivate animosity. Something else is doing that.

My 2 cents: Those who can build their won computers and write their own programs resent us who can't, or don't care to, and are willing to pay more to not have to. The fact that we also get a superior product is an additional thorn in their side. They usually respond by saying how they could have built a much better machine for much less money and call us Mac users gay for good measure.

In short, they sound like girly boys and act like liberals, and, as you say, over an inanimate object, although it does seem to come alive at times.

My .02: Most of the animosity is due to a loud faction of MAC users who are self-absorbed. Everthing has to revolve around what they do and what is best for them right now. They believe that whatever is the best product for them is the best product for everyone. They're special, and everyone else is stupid because they won't change.

They have short memories of the years that Apple stubbornly hung onto an inferior hardware platform and the consequences that has in terms of the industry. They think enterprise datacenters should just forklift millions of Windows machines and re-write billions of lines of code so that everyone can be like them.

They praise Jobs and his business model to the heavens, but I have yet to have any of them be able to tell me they think the industry would be better off if Microsoft had adopted that same business model early on instead of concentrating on writing a hardware agnostic OS, and letting the hardware sector flourish around it.

Disclaimer: I am a Window system administrator and Exchange administrator, and I'm still waiting to see that mythical open source Exchange killer.

My 2 cents: Those who can build their won computers and write their own programs resent us who can't, or don't care to, and are willing to pay more to not have to. The fact that we also get a superior product is an additional thorn in their side. They usually respond by saying how they could have built a much better machine for much less money and call us Mac users gay for good measure.

In short, they sound like girly boys and act like liberals, and, as you say, over an inanimate object, although it does seem to come alive at times.

I had a friend in mechanical engineering from UF. He claimed that PCs made him better at computers because he was always having to fix something. And he was serious.