If ny – your comment only supports how seriously fans of a technology think they really are. If you don't think that Apple has development teams reading every computer review they can find, you are delusional. This is something that every company does. Yes, I am sure Apple listens to it users. But they monitor the press just the same.

By the way, I wrote on this same topic several months ago. And I don't care one way or the other regarding computing. I just want something that works and does what I need it to do.

Apple computer users have confidence…

Apple aficionados actually have good reason to be a bit sensitive about the press. Over the years the press has treated Apple pretty badly overall, denigrating the products and their possibilities and forever underestimating the growth.

I mean – I actually had someone tell me about 12 years ago, that a Mac was not a real computer – only a "toy." This level of ignorance was perpetuated by the press.

But the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and now that millions have had a taste, we are seeing a "flight to quality" – exactly what Apple aficionados have been saying all along.

A couple of the comments here seem to prove the pint.

The problem with comments like these is that – while they may be true about SOME people, they are definitely NOT true about MOST of the Apple fans. Sure – there is the radical fringe who are hyper-sensitive about the smallest slight. The overwhelming majority of Apple users – and Apple fans – are really a lot more moderate in their views. Yes they may be very enthusiastic about the products, but they do not indulge in inflammatory postings at any minor criticism.

And so – the article, by focusing on the most outrageous "fanboys" presents an extreme stereotyping of the generally more moderate population.

A little more objectivity please.

That said, I do understand where some of the frustration that drives these Apple guys comes from.

A few years ago I wanted to buy a cheap, small, portable laptop. I looked at every PC model out there – I'd only used PCs since I gave up my last DOS, and it took me a while to accept DOS after CP/M. All the 12" screens were obscenely expensive except for a no-name WalMart model that looked and felt like junk. Finally, I stumbled across the 12" iBook for $999, which included wireless, a dvd reader, hi-res screen, workable software, and (from the vendor) a free (good) laptop bag, printer/scanner, eabuds, memory upgrade, earphones, and shipping. No PC system came close except for a 15" Dell without WiFi and an ADVERTISED 1.5 hour battery life. So, I bought my first Mac, which has been a pleasure to own.

That month, PC Magazine had a Laptop review, and compared two dozen laptops in several categories by size and speed. The 12" iBook, inexplicably, wasn't compared to any 12" laptops (the cheapest of which was over $2,000) though the 15" iBook was mentioned, only compared to a Powerbook ("it's slower.") All Macs were dismissed with admitted good performance and battery life, but at a premium price, even though at that time the 12" iBook would have been half the price of any similarly-sized, identically configured model.

Shortly after that, Consumer Reports' Laptop Roundup admitted that the iBooks were reliable, powerful, and loved by their owners in surveys, but added that Apples are "usually more expensive than PCs." Again and again over the next year, few reviewers seemed able to admit that Apple had the lowest price in a laptop size. On the rare occasions that 12" iBooks were actually compared to other 12" portables, they were deemed slower than laptops costing 2 to 3 times as much, but the price wasn't discussed, nore were PowerBooks. Alternately, when PowerBooks were mentioned as being too expensive, iBooks were somehow never discussed. At the time, it really did seem like reviewers were either blind or in someone's pocket.

If we "mac" people are overzealous and outspoken about our computer of choice, then PC people are the ivory tower arrogant "banker" types who have been trying to justify their computer choice since the beginning.

For 10 years, I tried to keep my mouth shut at the snickering, the look of "oh, you're one of THEM" whenever computer choice came up. I tried to avoid it like the plague, not because I wasn't happy with my choice, but because pc types were all united in their dislike of the products – even though, in a serious discussion, I could easily refute every stupid reason they gave for it being a bad choice.

Karma is a bitch. Call me a zealot all you want, I've listened to, and been subject of jokes and ridicule since the beginning – for no other reason than I don't have "right-click."

If all you PC people would just admit you have been wrong all these years, there would be no problem.

To show my love for pc users, here's a tip (and you don't even have to by a mac) – Buy the stock and you can have as many pc's as you want.