I don’t dislike Macintosh computers. iPods are alright (but overrated). As with iPhones… but I would never buy one.

But why does Apple have to have that egotistical, “holier than thou” fanbase? Oh, and I can’t exempt the company itself either, not after the “I’m a PC, I’m a Mac” advertisements.

You are not cooler if you own a Mac. You are not hip if you use an iPhone. You are no better or worse than any Windows user.

I don’t like Microsoft, but I think Windows XP is a good, solid OS. I’m sure Mac OS is solid too. Maybe it doesn’t get so many viruses, but my computer is WELL protected and I have not had any malware on it since I got it nearly 2 years ago.

I’ve seen a stupid amount of Apple snobbery in my time. Even Stephen Fry himself sometimes tweets about Apple being better than Microsoft. Just get over yourselves people. Both are valid choices, and Linux is just as valid too. Stop trying to make it into some kind of battle. Windows users typically don’t care about any of this. Indeed, Windows is dominant and unlikely to have its monopoly usurped – and why? Because Macs are too specialised and expensive. Windows can easily be installed on just about any old hunk of motherboard and hard drive.

So what I’m saying is this: Apple snobs ruin Apple for everyone. Just stop it, okay? If you guys weren’t so loudmouthed and obnoxious, maybe I would have been more willing to investigate Macs, but as it stands I am aversed to them. I don’t want to turn into some hipster trend-follower, obsessed with white and grey gradients, listening to some sh*tty hip hop I bought off iTunes and changing my blog name to “iNatalie.”

Sorry about this rant, but it’s been pissing me off for a while now. Had to vent.

This is by no means a persecution of Apple users, by the way. Just of Apple snobs.

I was playing Sonic 3 & Knuckles on it earlier, and I paused it to go with my sister to buy a new computer (more on that shortly). When I returned, it was off. I picked it up and tried turning it back on. The light popped on and I heard the fan start, then it switched off immediately after that. It felt hot. Really, really hot. I don’t know what the Genesis emulator did to it, but it was really overheated. I was worried, and let it sit for a while. Fortunately, once cool, it worked again. Better that it powered off instead of melting something, I suppose. But, it scared me quite a bit. I don’t want to lose this computer in the way I lost my IBM a couple of years ago. That one developed a design flaw that caused the monitor to go blank, and when my uncle was tinkering with it, it died completely. I was just lucky that I had backed up the hard drive when the bug first started to make the screen intermittently go blank.

So, anyway, I went with Allyson today to Harvey Norman, and she bought an Asus Eee PC for her next trip – she is going to America to be maid of honour in her friend’s wedding in San Diego.

It is a 7.8 inch (I think) netbook that runs some version of Linux. It’s really user friendly (well, once we got over problems with the wi-fi), and came with OpenOffice.org, Skype and Firefox already installed. I think it is excellent! But I can’t believe my sister got Linux before me!

Oh well. Anyway, it’s been an interesting day. Now I need to spend my evening working on my comic, which I haven’t been doing, instead procrastinating with Sega games (I got Hyper Sonic in S3&K, that’s got to count for something!). My nephew Jake is eager to read it once I’m done, so I have to make it, if only for him.