5 Signs you're Becomming an Apple Fanboy

I’ve been a Mac used for a while now, and I love it. Things have just been so much easier since seeing things Cupertino’s way. I have mentioned to a few friends and colleagues that I am a Mac user, and suggested why they may also like to try a Mac out for themselves. As with most religious zealots helpful people, responses were mixed. Up until now, I’ve never really considered myself a fanboy for anything. There are products I like, and products I don’t. That’s pretty much how I saw myself, I would assess everything on merit only. That was until today, when I realised I was turning into a bit of an Apple fanboy, and here are the five signs that lead me to believe it was happening.

1. I got really excited about a Summer Product Announcement – Yes, there was an announcement today, I know it was coming and it happened to be just after I arrived home from work. This meant I couldn’t concentrate for most of the afternoon and the first thing I did when I got home was to fire up the Engadget live blogging page. Let’s face it, it’s pretty sad.
2. I’m showing people the new products – Ok, so the new iMac is a particularly sleek piece of kit. But no matter how sleek it is, my girlfriend isn’t going to be interested. She’s even less likely to be interested in a new Spreadsheet application. But you know what, I spent ten minutes explaining it all to her, showing her photos and then getting upset when it became obvious she didn’t care.
3. I believe the hype – I believe that Numbers has revolutionised spreadsheets, and I think that’s great. The only problem is, before Numbers came along I really couldn’t care less about spreadsheets. And of all the things I want to be revolutionised, spreadsheets were pretty far down the list. But now, even though I rarely use spreadsheets outside of work (and I’m stuck on a Windows machine there), I want to pay my £55 for iWork and create lots of interesting and lovely spreadsheets. Did I just call spreadsheets lovely? Shoot. Me.
4. I smiled uncontrollably whenever I saw a picture of Steve Jobs or a new product – I have no idea why, I just did. Like the reflex action parents get when they see their new born for the first time, it just fills me with joy. And yes, I’m being serious.
5. iPorn – This is a new concept to me, and doesn’t necessary make me a fanboy in and of itself, it’s more the situation that caused it to come about. I was sitting on the sofa watching the live blogging of the Apple event, excited like a school girl and grinning like a serial killer. My girlfriend, who was sitting next to me watching TV was obviously intrigued so bent her head round to see what I was doing. Her description of what was on my screen, “iPorn”. It was, of course, a picture of Steve Jobs with a new iMac, and I was way to excited. The most worrying thing though, my girlfriend seems to think that me looking at a middle aged man in jeans and a turtle neck presenting a new computer is the equivalent of pornography. Ugh. I dread to think how she’s going to take the revelation that my idea of safe sex is having a MacBook under the pillow. You know, cause they don’t get viruses.

If nothing else, we’ve discovered I need help, and I need help urgently. At the moment I’m really fighting the urge to buy a new iMac (and of course I’d need a new upgraded Airport Extreme to go with it, and probably a new USB disk and printer) even though I know I wouldn’t use it. I haven’t used my current desktop in two years, I’m a laptop person. Yet I am lusting after this shiny piece of hardware. Hmm, maybe the iPorn description wasn’t so far off the mark, what with the lusting…