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mikeo007 Sorry if you found that sarcastic, I was genuinely confused about your usage of the word. I know understand what you think a fanboy is, and I basically agree with you.
I would call a diehard RIM fan a fanboy, just like I would call a diehard Apple fan a fanboy, diehard windows fan a fanboy and diehard android fan a fanboy.
The reason I brought this up is because I feel like our definitions of "diehard" are different in this case.
You sometimes seem to be tossing the word "fanboy" at anyone who presents even a shred of evidence that would make one platform (apple in your case) better than another platform.
If I prefer Playbook to iPad and give 50 legit reasons (not imaginary) why Playbook is better, I wouldn't consider myself a fanboy. But if I gave 5 outlandish reasons (eg. iPads are for yuppies, Playbook smells better, lo-res PB screen allows crisper photos) then I would consider myself a fanboy.
I think the other moniker of a fanboy would be constantly trying to rebut people's personal choices. If I claim that I like iPad better because the screen is nicer for viewing photos on, then someone tells me that's a stupid reason and lists a bunch of other flaws with the iPad, I would consider them a fanboy of the competing platform (based on what device they're arguing for).
Hope that clears things up a bit.