Whiny geeks

What motivates people to whine about deficiencies and flaws in products they never held in their hands and probably can't afford either?

Take the Apple's new MacBook Air for example. What do the omega geeks think will be the reason of its demise? Let's enumerate: (1) it has no FireWire port, (2) it has no DVD drive, (3) battery is not user-replaceable, (4) no ethernet port, (5) no ExpressCard slot and, my favorite, (6) it's too thin! The conclusion: "it looks good but isn't for the power user." Power user, I gather, is the one with the most power bricks in his backpack. So the geeks have spoken: MacBook Air is a failure because the random Joe Shmoe couldn't afford it and therefore had to come up with all those lame excuses to use in a conversation with his fellow losers. Allrighty then!

Now let's see what a person from the intended audience would think about all those deficiencies: (1) what's FireWire?, (2) I can watch, rip and burn DVD's on any of my other Macs, (3) never replaced a battery in my laptop and even if I ever need to, I'll ask that genius at the Apple store to do it for me, (4) with integrated 802.11n who needs ethernet?, (5) what's ExpressCard?, (6) when my colleagues see me enter the conference room with only a manila envelope in my hand and produce a stunning looking laptop from it they'll die of envy!

Comments

[Vadim]

Good rant on the same subject:

http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/01/22/heavier_than_air