Well, that was tongue in cheek.
But really, just the opposite-- I'm saying that I'm a total tool who's caved in to the trendy peer pressure of the startup culture. That culture shuns .NET on principal and there's lots of pressure to never use it for a startup.
And if you don't believe there's peer pressure to use a MBP, try going to Red Rock or the Dojo with an Acer laptop. You can just feel people judging you. ;)
And? Unless you're trying to sell them something, who gives a rats-ass what they think? :-)
Though I am really buying a MBP tomorrow. I'm doing it because I need a new laptop and I like the new MBP-- but you can be sure I'll have it setup to do Windows 7 in dual boot from day 1.
Eeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww..... boo, hiss. Windows?!??
Sorry, when you mentioned a PC based laptop, I assumed it would have been running Linux (or BSD or Plan9 or Minix or some other proper operating system.) :-)
Try going to something that's a bit more unixy and it's just the opposite: you can feel people judging you when you pull out your MBP. Pull out an iPad and you may be asked to leave :)
I have gone to equivalent places/events with my Acer laptop, without anyone judging me. (It is running Ubuntu, mind).