And you can guarantee that the one who wants to “build his own”, violate copyright after copyright, and software licenses, will be the first to bellyache and scream at Apple when their creation doesn’t work quite right - and will further preach that Apple’s OS and software is junk (built on the premise that it won’t run well on his own garbage hardware).
I, too, was once an irrational Apple hater.
I used to say that since a Mac couldn’t use “X” piece of hardware, then it was inferior. Then, when I became a business owner, I started looking at computers differently.
Flashy hardware and astronomical benchmarks became secondary to “will it do what I want to do, day in and day out, without me having to mess with it.”
What the computer could do became secondary to what the computer was.
Anti-virus/Anti-spyware programs, defraggers, registry cleaners, etc., are time suckers and waste money. I bought them, kept them updated, used them, but still somehow Windows computers would get infected, corrupted or in some other fashion taken offline.
I went with Macs because I can focus on doing my REAL job, running a business, not being a glorified IT guy. For those few programs that I must have that only run on Windows, I have VMWare Fusion.
I didn’t do it for the prestige of owning Macs. I didn’t do it for the politics of the board of directors. I didn’t do it because Rush uses Macs. I did it because they WORK better than Windows machines.