I think you are confusing stupidity with desperation.
A stupid person is the
one who would have gone to the event to get somebody else a laptop, a
desperate person would be the poor mom whose son is doing crappy in school
and thinks an iBook would make the difference between her son getting into
Harvard or being a crack dealer.
an iBook would help her kid become a crack dealer, so that he wouldn't be
stuck with going to Harvard?