When we heard that Sinbad would be giving a feature presentation at Macworld Expo this year, we knew we were in for some laughs. The stand-up comedian and film and TV star has been attending Macworld Expo for 20 years, and despite the skepticism of many outsiders, he has a good understanding of what makes Apple fans tick. During his talk, he discussed becoming a Mac user by accident, how he became addicted to iPhone apps—"they're like crack"—and poked fun at Windows and Mac users alike. We got a chance to ask a few questions about what draws him to the Apple user community.

Sinbad is probably most famous for TV work like the sitcom A Different World and films such a Houseguest, Jingle All The Way, and First Kid. He has also starred in several successful stand-up comedy films for HBO and Comedy Central. Among Mac users, he's also known for his yearly appearances at Macworld Expo.

"I started coming in 1990," Sinbad told Ars. "And I've come to every one since." He has always attended Apple keynotes, and can often be spotted walking the show floor or attending after-parties like the infamous Cirque du Mac.

Sinbad said that he even attended the first QuickTime conference in the early '90s. "It was all engineers, it was all QuickTime cats," he said. "And what happens is, they were showing like just a ball twisting, and I went up to the microphone and said, 'You have to got to let Hollywood get involved, 'cause that stuff sucks.' I mean, they had the technology, but they didn't have the creativity. And that's when the world opened up between technologists and Hollywood, and you saw the best of both worlds."

While numerous techies expressed surprise that Sinbad was invited to give a feature presentation at this year's Expo, it turns out he has some history of speaking at events for Apple. Sinbad was an "Apple Master" in years past, and spoke at several Worldwide Developers Conferences. He also made an appearance at an Apple company Christmas party in 1994. "That was up in Cupertino, when they had the first Apple camera—the QuickTake. They were taking pictures with the QuickTake," Sinbad said.

Sinbad's presentation at the Expo this year was modeled on Steve Jobs' keynotes, complete with a Keynote slide presentation. He wasn't discussing new Apple products or bragging about record sales, though. Instead, Expo attendees were treated to about 45 minutes of geeky stand-up comedy informed by 20 years of being a part of the Apple community.

Windows was the butt of many jokes, but that doesn't mean Sinbad didn't get in a few jabs at Apple fans as well. "See, Steve Jobs was smart—he knew stupid people like me would want to use computers, so he made one even stupid people could use," he told the crowd.

A self-avowed "app junkie," Sinbad quipped that adding folders to iOS was one of Apple's biggest mistakes. "Now I can have 3,000 apps on my phone—I shouldn't be allowed to do that," he said. "Sure, apps are only 99 cents, but now I have a $3,000 charge on my credit card from iTunes!"

After his "keynote," Sinbad took questions from the audience. There were plenty of questions about what Apple might do next, such as "What's the next iPhone going to have?" Sinbad answered, "Reception."

But Sinbad doesn't worry that much about what Apple will do next or what the next upgrade will be—he trusts Apple to worry about that. "That kind of stuff, I just wait until it comes out," he said. "I haven't even read much on it, because it doesn't matter until it ships."

Still, he noted that Mac users are an impatient bunch. "You don't need to upgrade until what you got is getting in the way of what you're trying to do," he told the crowd. "I'd rather buy a new microphone than a new computer, if my computer does what I need. But the thing about Mac people, we get caught up, because I hate when someone who has not been an Apple person has the newer product before I do."

Why is Sinbad so passionate about Apple? He told us that it all started when he went to a computer swap meet in Pomona, California. "I didn't know what I was looking for, but I read up on computers and understood you had to get the right kind of boards to match the right kind of chips when you built the computer," he said. "And this guy was sitting there with this Macintosh—it spoke to me. When I bought that I said, 'this is the one.'"

"I've had PCs... I've built PCs; me and my son build them for gaming," Sinbad explained. "The Mac was all in one; it was self-contained. I mean, yes, you couldn't take it apart like a PC, and get different parts, and build it to your specifications. But the Mac, it was all about the symbiotic relationship between all the tools."

Today, Sinbad travels with an iPhone, an iPad, and a MacBook Air. "I grab the iPad when I want to surf and see bigger pictures, and then I also carry my MacBook Air because it can play Flash," he told Ars. But, "I'll write more on my iPhone now if I'm on the road, because that's what's in my hand."

"My thing is, I try to find software that will talk to all the machines, like Evernote," Sinbad told Ars. "All the notes go everywhere. I have Dropbox, SoundCloud, I use iDisk, so you can just drop your information in and get it anywhere."

Sinbad's enthusiasm for Apple's mobile platform was definitely apparent during our talk. I used Apple's Voice Memo app on my iPhone to record our interview, but Sinbad spent a good part of our time extolling the virtues of the FIRe recording app from Audiofile Engineering. "It's got everything, like EQ. For podcasts and stuff it's great." He also tried to pitch me on pairing FIRe it with Blue's Mikey stereo mic for the iPhone. "The Blue Mikey mic will change your world. For interviews, it'll blow your mind—it's insane," he said.

We also discussed his thoughts on Apple's plan to bring iOS features to Mac OS X in the upcoming Lion update. "They're just [bringing] things that we're already doing on the iPad. People say 'convergence,' but I don't really see it as convergence—we're already doing it," Sinbad said.

"Like the Mac Apps Store—to me, that's not convergence, that's the normal path," Sinbad explained. He noted that iOS devices have been incredibly successful, and that plenty of users like himself are using iPhones or iPads more than their "regular" computers. "Apple wants to make your computer more like your iPhone? Great, because iOS 4 is awesome. They are just adding some new features, features that people are already using [on the iPad]," he told Ars.

Sinbad is a big proponent of flash storage for laptops, and he admitted that he got the update bug when Apple released new MacBook Air models last October. "I had to get the new MacBook Air with the solid state," he said. A musician had come over to his house to work on a project, and did all the work on a new MacBook Air. "The old one, once you open three windows it was just—schwooomp—the processor would get crunched up. This solid state—I was like, 'dude, I have to get that.'"

"That solid state, it'll mess you up," Sinbad said. Indeed, Sinbad, indeed.