I’m not someone who participates in class, or puts himself out there during office hours. Maybe this makes me a coward, which I can accept, but I also really like when he calls other people “morons.” It just seems to come so effortlessly, and with such conviction. If it’s all an act to ‘shake up the law school experience’ (which I do not believe is the case here) then he sells it well enough. I have the highest respect for everyone in the classroom, but come on… sometimes, we’re wrong about stuff, and in that instance, we’re moronic and idiotic and etc. It’s humbling for some, entertaining for others, but I really don’t see how this type of blunt honesty can genuinely offend anyone in our class, or cause 'long-term harm to entire communities.'

On another note, from my perspective, the original entry up there unfairly frames the exchange during Tuesday’s class. I wasn’t in office hours, so I probably don’t have the whole picture, but it seemed that the environmental concerns raised by Eben were tangential, and did not specifically target Macs. He said that LCD power source (or whatever it was) was in every computer in class (right?). I also don’t remember him arguing that laptop heat management issues are confined to Apples… Anyway, I thought his broader point was that its super toolish to pay a premium (let alone that much of a premium) for a computer that so effortlessly takes away the consumers’ ability to modify/customize it (pre- or post- sale). Also that the store’s extravagance annoys him.

-- JoshuaHochman - 08 Apr 2010