I think Quixote has already mentioned this in part, but this really another 'horses for course' situation.
Recently, when I got back into the Amiga, I got a few sneers from friends...'What do you want one of them for'. But really I should be asking that question of THEIR computers!
It is perhaps a bit of a particularly male feature, but there's always this 'mine is better than yours' argument going on. I still hear grown men showing off about how their computer/car/mobile phone etc is better than the next man's, but so what?
How many of us know people who have had the 'best computer available' sold to them by the local computer warehouse (e.g. PC World in the UK). But what are they going to use it for? Surfing the internet perhaps, word processing, printing out digital camera photos? Until recently I was using a P120 laptop at home - for surfing the net, using Word and Excel, in fact I could still probably do so now... I now have a PII 400 laptop and use it for the same kind of thing, except I use the USB port for my digital camera...
I will still get people telling me how their computer is better than mine, but I don't have time for their 'penis size insecurities', if you'd forgive the expression. What would I do with a super-fast computer? Nothing! Except play games perhaps....
One thing my computer tech (in the Physics dept at college) DID say, is that 'if it wasn't for the games-players us scientists would have much slower computers'!
AND, one more point...:-D
Would you say to someone with, say a classic Jaguar E-type convertible, 'your car's crap. why don't you buy a newer faster one like mine?', I think not, as he is happy with his car and what it does for him....
