Macs are easy (which is why lameaxes like Jude and R.U. like them so
much), but they insulate you from the glory component-level hardware
hackery, and it's all that card swapping and, IRQ fiddling, dip-switch
setting, chip pulling, and tooth gnashing that make the Intel-based PC
world very cyberpunk. Using a Mac makes it a hurl of a lot harder to
achieve deep geekhood, and you're far less likely to build up really neat
piles of old interface cards, mother-boards, and obsolete hard drives.
(Although the old Macs have their own weird tools just to open them up.
Which you could leave lying around to look like you were diversifying into
open-heart surgery.)
Also you never hear of people building a Mac from components variously
purchased from three catalogs, barrowed from friends and retrieved from the
dumpster from behind Joe's PC Palace and Bait Shop. You can do this with
IBM PCs, and then scatter any extra parts around your home or apartment to
give it that uber-cyberpunk je ne sais quoi...
Novelist Umberto Eco compared the Mac operating system to the Catholic
church. Believers (users) must approach God (the hardware) through a layer
of churchy indirection and simplification (icons, symbols,
point-and-click), while DOS is very Protestant--you're responsible for
achieving salvation on your own, dimmit, and you confess your sins directly
to GOD, and no kissy face icons in-between."
A quote from the CYBERPUNK HANDBOOK, very good btw, by Bart Nagel and
some other idiots that use Macs helped him.
Take a BITE out of CRIME, eat Apples!