STEPHEN FRY

The talk of buying computers because of their colour makes you girls sound a bit dense.

I think only one person mentioned colour....and anyway, the fact that every guy I know uses Axe body spray despite its horrible smell and the moronic commercials that somehow actually convince you guys to buy it doesn't say much for your sex either.

Measuring a quantative element like colour against a subjective element like smell indicates that one doe snot know what one is talking about.

i honestly don't think that either of us are really saying anything. certainly we aren't saying anything of any importance. in summary:

you: girls consider colour when it comes to computer, therefore girls are dumb.

me: boys are pretty dumb too.

see? there. now we don't need to say anything more at all.

what ever floats your boat at the end of the day............

Oh, yet another potential reason. I'm not sure I ever want to deal with Vista, unless it's on a work-issued machine and I have to. The more I read about it, the more horrified I am.

Debian's good, I use it at work.

Of course, the next big question is...vi or emacs?

Beg pardon?

Hmm I'm not sure how to vote. I have a powerbook which I'm using right now. I just soldered a new power cable back on and the hard drive's dying but it is err 3 or 4 years old and I've beaten the crap out of it. Then there's the PC over there which I use when I actually feel like getting up and sitting in one spot (and in an uncomfortable chair). Or if there's something I need to do on a Windows machine I'll use that. Hmm. Oh, I like to mess around with linux too. There's no specific distro that I favor, since I usually mess things up pretty bad no matter what I use, and that's the reason I now keep everything important on a completely different hard drive, heh. My mac is the most convenient. And it's pretty simple to mess around inside of it. Takes my beatings pretty well too. I'd love to get my hands on a new one but I keep spending my 'laptop fund' (my spare change), so I'll be 92 before that happens.

No, you think that males who use a certain deodorant which you happen not to like to be dumb. Narcissus much? I got news for ya - males are not perennially insecure like females. We don't choose deodorant because women like it.

If you're going to criticise an entire gender for falling for vanity advertising then look no further than the mirror. Narcissus again?

see? there. now we don't need to say anything more at all.

Your attempt to get the last word by way of a straw-man fallacy means you fail at smart-ass 101.

No, seriously, I don't give a flying toss about deodorant or computer specs. What I'm not into is your broad generalizing about which sex is more likely to chose something based on color or have insecurities about body odor. I'm not trying to one-up you or pick a fight, I'm just saying that broad generalizations don't make truth. The deodorant remark was a joke to illustrate how stupid such generalizations are. I don't actually think men are more vulnerable to advertising than women are.

And I'm not a smart ass, just a pissy human being and a girl who's sick of being told how insecure or vain I am, just because I have a friggin' twat. I'm NOT insecure and I'm not vain. I hardly ever even remember to brush my hair, for chrissakes, and I don't like men very much so it doesn't even matter to me whether they're trying to impress women or not. I'm just sick to death of being judged on the sole factor of my sex--something I can't (or rather won't, this being the 21st c.) change. Aren't you?


And er, to remain on topic, is there any real difference btw the white macbook and the black macbook besides memory? Or rather, at least, anything that a person who uses the thing mainly for internet, garageband, and photoshop ought to know about?