Envious

I'm jealous of my neighbor, who just brought home her new Apple iMac computer on Monday. It's so clean and uncluttered, super fast, and has a really nice 27 inch display, not to mention all the nice bundled software.

Her husband is still clinging to his almost fanatical assertion that the Macintosh is just a toy, that "comes with absolutely no software that I would ever use." His opinion is based on his experience at the Apple store 3 years ago, when the salesman told him it didn't come with a word processor or spreadsheet software, but it did come with iTunes, iPhoto, and iMovie. He was less than thrilled, since he doesn't mess with digital music, pictures or movies. I've been telling him since then, that the Mac did come with the two applications that he uses most of the time -- the web browser and email client. And considering that his PC didn't come with a spreadsheet program either, and he's been using the free OpenOffice (also available for Mac) all these years, his conclusion seems really confusing. He says I just like to argue.