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Apple products do a few things well. The few things they do well, a lot of people want to do. Some of the things Apple products do well are technically complicated. Apple makes it easy to do them. Thus, Apple has a strong customer base. Heaven help you, if you want to do something different, though.

A number of Apple owners think of themselves as technically sophisticated since they are able to do things that are technically complicated. This isn't necessarily so. Many just happen to want to do only the technically complicated things that Apple makes easy. These are simply lost it they want to do things that Apple doesn't allow them to do. And this is the problem I have with Apple products: I often want to do things that Apple doesn't allow. Many times these are simple things, like installing new batteries, changing hardware, leaving chargers in several places, running something unattended for several months, etc. Some wizard at Cupertino doesn't want me to do things such as these. I don't have much to do with them.

These are simply lost it they want to do things that Apple doesn't allow them to do. And this is the problem I have with Apple products: I often want to do things that Apple doesn't allow. Many times these are simple things, like installing new batteries, changing hardware, leaving chargers in several places, running something unattended for several months, etc. Some wizard at Cupertino doesn't want me to do things such as these. I don't have much to do with them.

If you think those things are difficult, then you've swallowed the FUD without bothering to investigate the truth. Do you seriously think you CAN'T have multiple chargers??? Why? Who is stopping you? Who is stopping you from running ANYTHING unattended for several months? Not Apple. Apple Mac OSX is UNIX, one of the most bullet proof operating systems around and most of mine run months at a time without restarting. What's your problem??? I have one that has run for two years without a restart. . . Unattended. You guys just really don't know what you are talking about. You spout myths, thinking they are true. We who DO know shake our heads in wonder at the nonsense that spills out of your mouths.

Apple products do a few things well. The few things they do well, a lot of people want to do. Some of the things Apple products do well are technically complicated. Apple makes it easy to do them. Thus, Apple has a strong customer base. Heaven help you, if you want to do something different, though.

Serious question. When was the last time you personally USED a Mac for anything at all? Frankly, I think you would find that your premise is completely wrong. Are you aware, for example, that various reviewers have named the Mac as the best computer on which to run WINDOWS? And that most people who do so run it in a sandbox inside of Apple's Mac OSX? And that they may be running a couple of versions of Windows simultaneously, as I do? How about that Apple Mac OSX is a fully Posix compliant TradeMarked version of UNIX—one of four so certified, in fact the number one highest sold and most used UNIX in the world—and capable of running all UNIX and Linux software, all just a terminal away from the Mac desktop? Oh, and every user gas easy access to that terminal.

"Heaven help you?" Seriously? The full power of UNIX and the junkiness—and risks—of WINDOWS are available if we want them. . . Most of us don't bother with the Windows stuff having "been there and done that" and are damn glad to be shut of it. . . and just never want to go back!

I often want to do things that Apple doesn't allow.

Give us a list of those things, maybe a real expert will give you a hand.