Honestly, nobody is trying to convince you to buy anything or that any product is better for you than the one you have chosen for yourself.

I own a Sony TT myself. It's an excellent machine. Just gave it to my daughter. I never did understand why it wasn't more popular and didn't develop a following like other thin/light machines. Maybe it was the small screen size? I don't know. I don't know why they don't have a cult following either, but I suppose you could take a look at the new Z, or how their first mp3 players didn't play mp3s? etc, etc, etc. Strange how they managed to screw all that up, isn't it?

People are questioning your arguments, and you continue to use terms like the hive mind mentality, "apple fanatics" comments, comparison to TSA, Mapple store nonsense, and other non-technical arguments to try to turn the technical argument around to something that it isn't. You are trying to bait people and that has nothing to do at all with your real argument. But it lets you respond to their responses in a way that I think most intelligent people can see through. Why do that at all? It's only to bait people, right? Strange.

Try to stick to your technical argument, and it will be a much better thread. @:-)

JMHO.

-David