I wish I could understand people who describe inanimate objects as sexy. I have no idea how to relate to people who choose a laptop because of its sex appeal, which would be a big disadvantage if I ever need to sell to them. There probably aren't that many of them, but they seem to have a lot of money.
You don't buy a Mac because of its sex appeal. You buy it because it's a damn good computer. A part of that just happens to be that it's sexy.
There are such things as sexy suits and sexy dresses. They're inanimate, but there are ugly dresses and sexy dresses. Similarly, computers exist that have blinking lights and bulges and edges where they don't need them, and they are perceived to be ugly; when you have a computer that doesn't have a line it doesn't need to have, then it's sexy.
But that's not what you're saying, Matt. We know what you're saying; you've been saying it for years, occasionally with an attempt at subtlety, as now. What you're saying is that you don't like the Mac or Mac users. You and I have had this argument before, only instead of sexy you didn't understand people who were willing to pay two thousand dollars for a computer, or who couldn't tinker with certain settings. But your arguments are shallow every time and it's tiring talking to somebody who won't say what he's actually thinking.
He specifically said he wanted his computer to be sexy. The exact quote is "and while they’re sturdy as heck and are well built and last forever, they’re not really all that sexy. I wanted sexy." He literally said that he was choosing form over function there, and it has nothing to do with operating systems.
Suits and dresses aren't sexy, the person wearing them is. Suits or dresses may make them more or less sexy, but hanging on a rack they're devoid of such ability.
Can a laptop someone is holding do the same? Perhaps that's what I'm missing. If I see a beautiful woman holding a laptop I'm 0% likely to notice what brand it is, or likely that it even exists. My guess is that my wife wouldn't notice whether George Clooney was holding a Macbook Pro or a Lenovo x60 either.
I say exactly what I'm thinking. You read into it and assume I did not say what I meant, I cannot help that. I wasn't commenting on Macs at all, and I came to that thought before the word was ever mentioned in the article, though to be honest, I probably wouldn't have had trouble guessing where it was going. Nobody ever says "Lenovos are great, but they aren't sexy, so I got a Dell."
But regardless there's a much broader point there, as this probably applies to a range of things from clothing, to cars to laptops.
I wouldn't necessarily describe macs as "sexy", but I would describe pretty much every other laptop on the market as "gouge-your-eyes-out ugly", if that helps.
I believe the words that most people are actually looking for when they say sexy is aesthetically pleasing. Unfortunately sexy happens to be shorter and easier to throw around.
Plus, if you say some hardware or device is aesthetically pleasing, you might have to explain what you mean whereas few men will question what you mean if you say something is sexy.
