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Arrogant bastards, sure, but Godless seems a might strong.

Ha ha ha. The first part of the descriptor is more characteristic of PC users who can't conceive of any other operating system. For instance, today in lab meeting, when I announced that I had ordered the PC, called by some in the lab a "real" computer, someone asked, "Oh, we're getting a Mac, too? But nobody in the lab (10 people) uses Mac. Well...except for aruanan," she said. "And Bill (the principal investigator who's paying for it all)," I said. "And Don, and Betty, and Dalida. Looks as though we have some selective perception going on here." "But why do we need a Mac?" she asked. I said that we had to have something that would run Photoshop 7 the way it was supposed to be run (for instance, the entry level model 800MHz G4 is over 25% faster at the standard battery of Photoshop tasks than the 2.0 GHz Pentium 4.) The one most typical thing I've seen in PC users is the complete certainty that the PC is the "real" computer combined with the almost total inability to do anything either on a PC or a Mac than to use a program.

The first part of the descriptor is more characteristic of PC users who can't conceive of any other operating system.

I don't think so. I think most PC users are like me, they opt for the more popular format that has more software available etc. That's the killer reason, not because one is better than the other. We have one of each - PC and an iMac. I've used my wife's iMac quite a few times but have never felt comfortable with it. The kids can use either machine. They opt for the PC.

I'm a amateur musician. Pro Tools is a professional music recording program studios use which was written for the Mac. Supposedly runs on PC also but runs best on Mac. Even with that incentive I'll probably get another PC when my son steals mine to take to college this fall. Macs are just not worth the trouble.

I said that we had to have something that would run Photoshop 7 the way it was supposed to be run...

Mac has long claimed to run Photoshop "faster" than the PC. Whether or not this adds up to any kind of real world advantage in the graphics world is debatable ('cause the fastest PC is no slouch with Photoshop!).

There is definitely a squatters mentality in the graphics world. You will hear the same old tired defenses of the Mac vs. the PC even though the times have changed and ANYTHING one could even wish to design can be done on the PC now. The old service bureau shut-outs are over. Adobe has obliterated any differences between the Mac and PC versions of their industry-standard design programs. Open type will further knock down barriers created by incompatible fonts between platforms. Etc., etc...

Since Mac has traditionally dominated the graphic design market, I would be very worried if I were them. Eventually, the fear of change they so heavily rely on will evaporate.