Emotional Attachment to Techie Gadget or Computer

[firstadopter]

Amiga 500 is on top of the heap for me. When I finally upgraded to "evil" PC-dom it was a sad day.

Another sad day was when I uninstalled Netscape and switched to Internet Exlporer as my primary browser. Microsoft is "evil"
!!!

[mathewlu]

I never got tired of just enjoying how well designed my Apple G4 Titanium Powerbook was. I'm not nearly as attached to the iBook I gave it up for.

My Treo 600 feels good in my hand (I was similarly attached to my Treo 300, but by the time I traded it in I was sick of it).

My iPod (tho' the fascination has mostly worn off)

Those old clicky mechanical IBM PC XT keyboards; I loved those things.

cheers,
--Mathew

[firstadopter]

That is hilarious, I have 2 IBM clickety clack keyboards myself. I bought them at some clearance outlet off a usenet newsgroup back when I was in school. They have given me many years of good use and still work perfectly.

I love the feedback they give, the only downside is how loud they are.

[Ophelia]

I've got a discontinued model logitech 4 button mouse I love. I've also got an old no-name floppy drive that has traveled from computer to computer through several years.

Those old clicky mechanical IBM PC XT keyboards; I loved those things

Ooooh yes, when the office I worked at upgraded our ANCIENT systems, they were throwing them away. When they came through my cube I asked if I could bring mine home. He looked at me funny but let me have it. Oddly enough, in addition to the clicky sound, I also love that it has a little lip on the top to hold a pen. On my regular keyboard I usually have a pen balanced on top of the function keys which I am always knocking off.

[firstadopter]

Hehe, it will be a very sad day indeed when my IBM keyboards die. Right now going on over 10 years of use.

[CAG]

I'm sorry but there's not one techie gadget or computer that I've ever been attached to. Got my first machine in 1996...133MHz P1 with a 2Gb disk...Since then (thru Win95, Win98, WinME, and now WinXP) they've become throw-aways as the technology makes computing faster and cheaper. Now cars...that's a different story...maybe we'll leave that to a future time and a yet-to-be-titled board.

[firstadopter]

PCs tend to be less of an emotional attachment. I never been very attached to my PC, except maybe my old IBM butterfly laptop sub-notebook.

Apples, Amigas, Ataris, and PDAs tend to tug at the heart strings more for some reason.

Maybe because they are more creative and more a sense of design vs. the BORG-ness of PCs.

[CAG]

I like the BORG-ness of PC's. Maybe that's it...I'm emotionally attached to the throw-it-away-for-something-newer-and-better-ness of computers, peripherals, accessories, cell phones, etc. ...all of the attributes, I might add, of being a true capitalist.