[markomalley]

Oh, and by the way, I have nothing against Apple products or the OS. I think the products, all in all, are very high quality, innovative, and very usable...and the OS is, as far as OS's go, very stable. (Don't care for the closed ecosystem and the philosophy behind it, but that's a different issue altogether)

But what ticks me off is:

• The marketing:
  
  
  
  I don't care for smugness in advertising.
  
  
• The smugness and cult-like following of so many Mac users. I would rather use Windoze (and remember, I'm a Linux person), for all its faults, rather than be even remotely associated with that cult.

It's a pity, really. If it wasn't for that, I would probably buy an Airbook -- it's a very good product, really...but I'll be d@mned if I will ever give a company that promotes those attitudes a dime of my money. I'd rather be forced to drink Starbucks every day for the rest of my life.

[Chickensoup]

You are a soul-mate. Thank you for defining why Apple is so unattractive.