I am still pissed off at Apple for their crap customer service. If it had been any other manufacturer, I’d be equally annoyed. Unfortunately, this being Apple, my tirades can be confused with hating-Apple-because-it-is-Apple.

Yes IBM is a client of mine. But not Lenovo. And if Lenovo were to treat me as badly as Apple, I’d be shovelling manure on them too.

Just like your gripe about never buying Apple again and (by inference) non-green computer manufacturers and using iPods as an example of non-ethical manufacturing.

Given the religious zealotry that goes with someone’s choice of computer, a more varied choice of examples might make it look less like this is just an anti-Apple thing. The issues you want to discuss are wider than this. Or should someone just note than you list IBM as a client and just to the obvious conclusion about not-so-hidden agendas?