Jeff Kee really had a field day with his post on Mac users v iFag mac users. It made my juices flow for sure!

When I switched to a Mac powerbook in 2003, I became an iFag. It was an awesomely easy and productive time for me, after having as much luck with Windows as Mac addicts in basements have with girls. I had to tell the world about the joy of Mac. Noone listened till I got to Spain, and then everyone bought one! I had been right all along. iFagdom was the way.

I still wouldn't have a PC if you paid me, and after a bad time with a G5, neither would I have a Mac tower. But now I think, after experiencing all the quirks and spinning wheels on a little 867MHz Titanium painted Powerbook, I have achieved proper mac user status. It feels good to be in balance, ommmmmm.

In my 5th year of daily Powerbook beatings, I can't make it crash, but I acknowledge the limitations of a Mac, - one button, eye candy, no paper clip, and dialog boxes that glide not pop. Rather than be an ifag and ignore them, or worse, laud them as "made by design" I try to help others by explaining how I get over the niggles.

A single button mouse or trackpad is a non-issue with a piece of software, sidetracker, installed. Eye candy is a non-issue too, with my new found and healthy hatred of style. I spit on drop shadows and high definition widgets. I admit, I miss the Windows paper clip, so I have a surrogate titanium-coated one blu-tacked rather stylishly to my screen for old times sake. As for smoothly opening dialog boxes, maybe I lied, I will never get over those elegantly unfurling boxes. So I disconnected the freeware to open a box super snappy, Windows style.

Jeff Kee was right to highlight the Mac cult kids, but deep down, he knows he missed out and should have invested at least 2 more years of his life learning an intuitive Mac OS X.

Happy daze.

Update I think I was being too subtle, because 2 years to learn something intuitive was meant as a joke/contradiction in terms.