Wanna hear a secret? You'd never know it by the way we've done about eleventy-twelve scenes on Mike Dell's obsession with Steve Jobs over the years, or how variants of the Disney-buying-Apple rumor make it onto the show at least twice a week, but the truth is, eventually we really do get bored writing about the same old stuff over and over again, no matter how juicy the topic may once have been. Believe us, we've cranked out enough drama about long-time Windoid David Coursey's suspicious transformation into a Mac-booster to last us a lifetime; no more. Likewise, bashing Apple-phobic "analyst" Rob Enderle's consistently ill-informed opinions and inaccurate predictions of Apple's doom (not to mention his infatuation with a bright red laptop that goes "vroom, vroom"), well, it's so gosh-darn easy that it's downright Dullsville. We're swearing off that, too.

What's that? There's a rare opportunity to cover both Coursey and Enderle in a single scene? Well, then, to the Batpoles, Robin!

First, the Coursey side: faithful viewer mrmgraphics points out that in Monday's AnchorDesk installment, good ol' Dave provides all sorts of gems, starting with the article's title: "When Windows won't work, it's time for a Mac"-- which, of course, logically reduces to "It's time for a Mac." Moving on, how much of an Apple cheerleader has he become to lead off with a statement like "In my computing life, there's one constant: The Macs don't crash and the Windows machines do"? And remember, folks, this is a guy who's still enough of a Windows user to own one of the six Tablet PCs that have actually been sold since the products came on the market.

Anyway, Coursey's Fujitsu Tablet PC reportedly "slowed to a crawl" last week (requiring ten minutes to boot) and no amount of seemingly competent troubleshooting has indicated a fix less drastic than reinstalling Windows. Meanwhile, he also crashed his Compaq laptop by "loading some apps" (strenuous activity, indeed), and his HP Media Center PC "crashed after Symantec SystemWorks 2004 first failed to install properly and then didn't allow itself to be uninstalled." All in all, he's "down three Windows machines right now"-- and judging by his descriptions of what his life is like when using those things, it really sounds to us like he shouldn't bother replacing them. After all, he freely admits that "when Windows ticks [him] off," he just fires up his PowerBook and life is grand. One can only wonder why he doesn't make the switch permanently, considering he describes Mac OS X as "darn near uncrashable," "rock solid," and the OS that "just runs" no matter what he throws at it.

Eventually he notes that he can't make the switch full-time because there are Windows apps he doesn't want to give up (he's not using a G5; someone send him a copy of Virtual PC), but overall it sounds like Coursey is an open-minded and intelligent guy. On the other hand (and this is where Overdone Topic Number 2 comes in-- ready?), he publicly admits to being friends with Rob Enderle. What does that tell you?

Incidentally, does anyone find it... well, curious that Dave's Tablet PC only started to choke after he'd used it to take notes during a meeting at his buddy Rob's house? Indeed, Dave himself suspects that "something corrupted some system file between the time [he] left Rob's and when [he] got home." Hey, c'mon, Dave, give the Tablet PC a break; if we had to sit through a meeting with Rob Enderle, we'd probably wind up in a coma, too.