Oh, yeah -- about the deep-seated prejudice. Many, many years ago I started out in PCs with a TRS80 Model I, which used a Zilog Z80 chip, which was very similar in architecture to the Intel 8088. The Apple II used a Motorola chip. The Intel was perfect for business, text and database work; the Motorola was an "artistic" chip, supporting color, graphics, etc. I was never artisitic. The lines were drawn back in those days; you were either an artistic type or educator, neither one of which had a clue about technology, or you were a hard-core programmer or database creator. One way went Apple, the other way went Zilog or Intel. Of course, IBM was primarily a business computer company, so when they came out with a PC, they naturally went with Intel.
In addition to the artistic nature of the Apple, most of the Apple programmers used Pascal as a language. I looked down on Pascal because it was easy to use and not very flexible. It wasn't a smart compiler; you had to end every line with a semi-colon because the compiler wasn't smart enough to find the end of the line otherwise. Similarly, the Apple computers grew into machines that were easy to use; real computer nerds looked down their noses at them. Who wanted a silly mouse when there was that fantastic DOS command-line interface?
Further, while Apple gained a reputation that all software worked the same, it was at the expense of creative thinking -- Apple set strict rules and embedded the interface into the operaing system; programmers couldn't break the rules if they wanted to. In my opinion, this stifled innovation.
Ever since then, the division has stayed about the same. Intel PCs can do art and music, but the Apple stuff was better at it. Apples can do math and business, but the Intel stuff was better at it. Programs like Photoshop and Midi sequencers were developed on the Apple stuff and later ported, often poorly, to Intel PCs. Database programs and Word Processors and such were created on the Intel PCs and ported, sometimes with less than success, to Apple machines.
In case I didn't say it before, I am not an artist. I might be the resident liberal on this forum, but I'm a hard-core, conservative, right wing computer user, not one of the wussy art or academic types that favor Apples. I have been continuously amused by the fact that Bob S uses an Apple, yet thinks he's so right-wing!
I was into these silly PCs at a really early stage, and got completely involved. I taught myself BASIC, Pascal, Cobol, DBase, and enough assembly language to write subroutines. I wrote my own database program and created a mailmerge program back in the days when there was very little canned software. I had a real estate business that solicited listings for Florida lot resales by mail. I converted our County's tax records from EBCDIC 9-track tape to ASCII 8" floppy disks and mail-merged the owner data with my solicitation letters on a daisy wheel printer.
That led to a computer consulting business and, for a long time in those early years, I was "the" PC guru for our area. I became a certified independent rep for Radio Shack PC clones and later started building my own clones from Taiwanese parts. That led to the second reason I'm prejudiced against Apples. Apple kept tiptoeing into the independent rep scenario and then pulling the rug out. Three times I attended regional seminars where Apple, with great fanfare, promised that this time it would be different, they were really committed to the Independent sales rep idea. Twice I invested in equipment, software, etc., primarily to break into the school market, and the programs were cancelled in a short time. The third time, I wised up, went to the seminar, unloaded and let them know exactly what I thought of the idea, and walked out (I was younger then; it created quite a stir). Sure enough, 6 months later Apple cancelled that program, too.
So, there's a long-held snobbery that causes me to look down my nose at wimpy, liberal Apple users who need things to be easy and at Apple programmers who are willing to be forced to follow the rules. At the same time, there is still residual resentment at Apple for wasting my professional time and resources.
Oops, and you all thought you knew me, right? :tonguewit
By the way, if Apple has gone to Intel, then I guess all my prejudices are a bit out of date...
We are just out of our minds and don't know what we are talking about. 
