IN A WORLD where you could stay a fan boy of a brand such as Apple for life, could you live without your preferred laptop, phone and entertainment system for a week?

Crazy man Anthony Agius, aka @Decryption and co-founder of MacTalk.com.au, is embarking on a 5-day week without Apple to see if he can cope.

“For a full working week, beginning as of 12:01am Monday the 1st of June, I will abandon my Apple products, casting them to the fortress that is my mother’s house,” he said

Can he do it?

Anthony will be giving up the following items:

• 15″ MacBook Pro (Early 2008) – 2.4Ghz CPU, 4GB RAM, 200GB 7200RPM HDD
• 16GB iPhone 3G
• AirPort Express
• AppleTV 40GB

To replace these items he will use:

• HP Pavilion dv6-1143tx – 2.4Ghz CPU, 4GB RAM, 500GB 5400RPM HDD
• RIM Blackberry Bold
• Linksys WRT610N
• TiVo

If he doesn’t co crazy, Anthony hopes to document his day by day journey of equivalent products @ http://www.mactalk.com.au/tag/noapple/

If an apple a day keeps the doctor away then I think Anthony is going to be at the doctor every day this week.