Why?

Imagine you’re a brand new Macbook Pro, fresh off the factory. Your brothers and sisters are the trusted tools of a great many creative and powerful people. Imagine your surprise, then, when instead of finding yourself on stage with Nine Inch Nails, writing Presidential speeches, or editing the next Baraka on location, you end up in the hands of a college student. A filthy, careless college student.

While I generally take advantage of this computer’s power for my software development and music production activities, I know plenty of people who own an identical or slightly less powerful model that don’t. Despite not having their full potential realized these computers still have to endure such injustices as being eaten over, running WoW, or being booted into Windows often for other types of gaming. Still more of these poor machines don’t even get to do that, busying themselves with Firefox, Adium/iChat, and Word (occasional Powerpoint if you’re lucky).

Folks, don’t buy the flagship of Apple’s high end line unless you’re going to do something worthwhile with it. Yes, I know you think it’s pretty, but you’re making it feel bad by underutilizing it. It thought it was meant for greater things.

(Disclaimer: This rant was triggered by having to wipe some cream cheese from my morning bagel off the keyboard. While reading Perez Hilton. But I also have two IDEs running so that makes it okay in my opinion.)