I don't have an eye pad nor do I want one. And the thing is that I have never read or heard any rubbish that Apfel have ever issued. Truth is that when I started using Macs years ago, I absolutely hated them. I mean REALLY hated them. Then they gave me OS X (That's Ten, not EX as people think) and suddenly what I found that I had was a PC that just worked flawlessly. Only it wasn't a PC it was a Mac.
The problem is that some people don't like them. That's because they are [strike:3qmsyfxz]arses[/strike:3qmsyfxz] using software perhaps for particular things for which the software is only available for PC. Or they like working in DOS or something smart arsey. I dunno.
But for a user who wants interweb, organise pictures, play music and movies - you know the stuff that people with real friends like to do, all they want is a machine that never gives them any grief. None of my Mac endeavours are things that can only be done on a Mac, nor are they necessarily better on a Mac. But - and this is the USP, it does it every single time I want it to. It never throws a fit or refuses to do something, never inexplicably shuts down, locks up, loses .dll files on the day you buy it or any other of the million maladies that a PC suffers from. And I actually have two PCs too by the way. Introduce something new - like my new BT infinity and in 10 seconds it's found it and is up and running. Will my PC do that. Well not to date it hasn't. I still have to keep manually configuring stuff that it forgets. The Mac is up and running from off in less than a minute and when I say 'shut down' I don't get some f****g argument, it just says "OK master, see you soon" - gone.
So what's not to want about something like that. I have made the analogy before between Landrovers and PCs and Macs and Landcruisers. You'll never go back. Now is that Macs or Landcruisers? You decide.
Coincidently I think the ipad weighing scale app thing is hilarious. Must have been a PC user on their first day with a Mac
Chris