Colin has accused me of becoming an Apple evangelist.
Since deciding to purchase my MacBook, I have convinced four others to go out and buy the little white notebooks, and another is thinking about it.
In less than a month, I have helped Apple sell several MacBooks, iPods, and various other items.
I’m no evangelist. I am a prophet. 
Colin takes exception to this. It’s like witnessing a religious conversion to him. What he doesn’t realize is that I am merely basking in the momentary joy. I don’t love Apple, I love the MacBook. Unlike the myriad fanboys out there who truly love the Cupertino-based company, I can and will be easily lured away by the Bigger Better Deal, the Next Big Thing. I am not blinded to innovation elsewhere, I just admit that right now Apple does it best with their slick OS X and their joyous little music players.
I used to be an Intel evangelist. Overclocking my Celeron 300A to 450. Then I switched to AMD, for their price-to-performance was the stuff of legends. Now I say f**k AMD and give me my Core Duo.
It can happen with Apple too. Until then, though…
All hail Satan… I mean Steven!
It’s funny… You act like OSX is new and all-of-a-sudden a better OS than Windows. I am not sure I would say that OSX is the Next Big Thing.
No, but the combination of OS X on a hardware platform that is far more versatile than anything Apple has put out to date certainly is.
Versatile? Um…aren’t you just running OSX on it at this point?
Blasphemous mongrel! You will rue the day you dared to speak such things!
Which is to say, yes. Yes I am.
Fantastic, the Church of the Annoying MAc Hipster has its second clergy member on Boston Geek.
Colin was the first.
Actually, I believe J was the first. Colin second. I was third.
Nah, Colin was totally first.
I am not an annoying mac hipster, thanks very much. I like Apple’s machines because they are powerful and they look nice, and I don’t object to paying a preium for a nice looking computer. I have never “helped” anyone “switch” to Apple — in fact, I don’t think it’s all that much of a switch, especially now that they have Intel chips in them just like everything else does.
Say it with me: they’re a computer company. They make, unsurprisingly, computers. They don’t care about you any more than Dell does, they just have nice looking stores and really good PR. At the end of the day, Apple has stockholders and needs to make money, just like every other computer company does.
The reason Carl’s sudden zealotry is so amazing (and frankly, annoying) is that, until just a month or two ago, he seemed to think that only idiots and delusional Apple fanatics would choose a mac over a pee-cee. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
French-speaking, latte-swilling apple hipster.
yeah Hippy McHipster, go put your beret.
That’s not even a complete sentence. Are you sure you’re really a biologist? I tend to expect better grammar, even from someone who watches bugs swimming around a test tube all day and calls it “Science”.
Actually, he stabs rats in the brainpan.
And drives like shit.
Which, I am aware, is an incomplete simily, unless you actually attempt to picture what a steaming turd would be like behind the wheel of a motor vehicle.
Thanks for almost killing me, Remy.
You forget, Remy conducts beer reviews for BG. He is probably half-in-the-bag, half of the time.
Screw all three of you.
Grammer is for the weak, that’s been established.
You’re not exactly the King of Road Safety either there jackass
And Colin…well sadly Colin is right.