Also, Alton Brown doesn't advise against unitaskers because he's some kind of hater. The reason you don't have unitaskers in the kitchen is because they take up

Also, Alton Brown doesn't advise against unitaskers because he's some kind of hater. The reason you don't have unitaskers in the kitchen is because they take up physical space. You have to decide which tools are worth the space they take up, and it's hard to justify that for a tool you will only use once in a while. That's not a concern with computers any more, so the reasoning doesn't apply here.