[Izzy]

I know exactly where you are coming from Ed...and I totally agree with you. I've been a mac user my entire computer functioning life, but I never took it any further than that. Sure I tell all of my friends about it, and everyone that knows me knows that I use Macs, but I've never gotten so into it that I've lost perspective.

Computers remain a tool to get work done and make life a little more bearable. We have fun with them and spend a lot of our free time using them, but when all the chips are laid down, there are priorities in life that supercede this tech life. I think that's what a lot of these "computer geeks" don't understand...that for some people the computer isn't the end-all meaning of life. Someone can love their computer and not be obsessed with it.

I've felt a slow chilling of the warmth that used to exist in the mac community. Where once there were smiles all around you are now seeing a lot more hostility. These new "unix gurus" coming over to the mac and all of the new "switchers" are not blending in with the old mac community. They are taking over and telling everyone to get out of the way...at least that's how I've seen a lot of them act.

I'm still getting my feet wet with MacOSX and I know OF certain things. I don't have hours a day to sit and learn unix/terminal commands...I know nothing about kernels, net info managers, or even what the heck perl is. School and life take up too much time to worry about what speed my RAM is or where my swap file is (I still don't know what this is all about...LOL).

I'm glad that the mac community is now drawing the truly computer savvy, I just wish that these people would take a look around before stepping into the room. Maybe walk around and shake a couple hands before starting to look down on those who don't share their passion for command line. At the end of the day we aren't going to take our computers with us, and the only thing we leave behind is our impact on other people. Everyone logs out sooner or later...