[doorgunner69]

Normal people view technological devices as tools. They may be much-loved tools, but you know, I've always appreciated my drill press too. But it's just a tool.

Perfectly stated.

[Utilizer]

Well, but it depends upon the tool as well. I own some very high-end CAD and CAM software tools that I rely upon very much. See here:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3277243/posts

about why.

There are NO ports to the mac platform for the really high-end software, and if you ever want to see an engineer produce a huge belly-laugh ask when one of those programs will be ported to the mac platform.

NOT going to happen.