The closest thing I’ve come to owning a Mac is through my brother, who purchased a notebook some months ago — but that’s the best thing about being a blogger: its part of our writ to write about things we barely know about.  Anyway, contrary to the motto “it just works”, it just _doesn’t_ work, as he’s had a number of hiccups from time to time.  Admittedly not as severe as the misadventures he had with his Dell or, prior to that, his bargain-basement PC, but it certainly isn’t quite as its billed to be: short of perfect.

Therefore, it was with schadenfreude-like glee that I read about Leopard’s earlier mishaps (although I understand much of it has been patched), and now, Robert Scoble’s own royal frustrations (see Rob Hyndman’s problems with peripherals).

While there are a lot of things that macs in all their incarnations do very well, one thing I cannot abide by is the snobbishness that many Mac-owners take about their platform and hardware of choice.  There’s no question that PC owners do the same, but I think the real issue is that Apple corporate echoes the same kind of childish tropes through its own marketing voice (’it just works’), advertising, and error messages that are coded right into OSX.

On the other hand, I don’t think you will ever hear anyone who is attached to Microsoft ever make smug suggestions that their products are without error …which I take “it just works” to mean.