Wow, the word “fanboy” is sure thrown around a lot these days, in magazines, TV, and podcasts. Well what does it mean exactly? fanboy as described by wikipedia as: Fanboy (sometimes spelled fanboi) is a term used to describe an individual who is devoted to a single fannish subject, or to a single point of view within that subject, often to the point where it is considered an obsession. Fanboys remain loyal to their particular obsession.
Ok, so i am a Mac Fanboy, i think. I own a PC, and i still use it about once a month, but I still have one. Does that eliminate me from the “mac fanboy” criteria? Idk, but I really hate Fanboys with computers. In the sports world, if u are devoted to one team, it makes for healthy smack talking and competition. But as soon as people start dissing OS X, the Mac Fanboys come out and suddenly its a huge thing to be a Fanboy. I really don’t get it.
A Podcast i subscribe to, Tekzilla, was talking about monitors on a recent episode, and brought up the apple cinema displays. They said they were over priced and only a Fanboy would get one. I will agree with the expensive part, but they are very sexy. I think that u don’t have to be a total fanboy to get one. It just annoys me. But i think that it makes for healthy competition between computer manufacturers. You don’t see Dell Fanboys, or HP Fanboys, its just Apple Fanboys. Just cuz we are different, you don’t like us? Just cuz our OS doesn’t crash when we run 5 programs, you think we are less of a person???? You think just cuz “it just works” we are stupid? I know I am sounding like a true Fanboy right now, but to tell u the truth, i would go out and buy a new Dell if i had the money, that is of course if i could put XP on it. I don’t have a problem with Windows, just Vista. I run XP on my PC and love it, when i get a Macbook Pro, i will install XP on it as well. Not everything can be Mac in this world. As much as i want it to be, it can’t. And we just have to accept that both sides are gonna be there forever, then theres Linux, which, yea….. we won’t go into that….. But anyway, this may not have made much sense, but i just needed to vent lol. Later….
It’s because Apple users consider themselves “Elitists” per say. The cinema disaplays are cool but have the exact guts that other displays have in them. You basically pay for the aluminum casing and the big ole Apple logo. I have a Vizio LCD TV and it works wonders for an external display. And yes…I too am an Apple Fanboy and get offended when people knock my computer preference…haha