Mac

I have a Mac mini. I like it because it was very easy to move across country with. Also, no constant niggling with anti-virus software. But it was relatively expensive. My computer before that was a giant eMac, and like any other computer, the hard drive futzed out without warning one day. (The hardware is generally the same shit that's in any other box.)

I don't have an iPod or an iPad or an iPhone. Actually, iPods regularly ruin my day because of people wearing their earbuds and thus failing to pay attention to the world around them—on line at a store, on the BART, etc. There's nothing more annoying than the vacant cowlike gaze of a person who just realized that he or she is the reason the train isn't moving, or that there are a dozen people waiting with their own groceries. Cheese graters to the face! Cheese graters to the face is the only solution!

Tom Carvel did a lot more to improve my life than Steve Jobs did, honestly.