Today, I bought a Mac.
I haven't used a Mac for almost fourteen years. The last time I can recall was at about 5 A.M. one April morning, six months after I had sworn that I would not be pulling an all-nighter to finish my Senior Thesis. This was back when Apples came in the form of those cute little towers with screens.
Since then, I've never owned one or used one. In graduate school, I had a primitive laptop/word processor that probably ran COBOL, but saved me countless man hours when I was typing out notes in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY.
After school, I always got computers through work and nobody uses Macs on Wall Street.
I'm not sure what moved me to get one now. The final barrier fell when I found out that Tiger OS X is fully compatible with our Windows-based server and VPN.
Somebody tell me I made the right choice.
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Calling the original Mac OS (OS1 - OS9) a "piece of crap" is a little harsh. The fact is that it was a system that was pushed WAY beyond what it was originally designed to do, and the fact that it lasted as long as it did - and was able to handle everything from word processing all the way to the development of computer based video editing (the AVID systems, which forever changed the way movies are made) is a testament to its strength (and the ingenuity of Apple's engineers).
That being said, OSX is incredible. It convinced people like Hazmat to move to Mac, which is no small feat. Going from OS9 to OSX was like going from a tricked out Ford Escort to a Mercedes. It's a serious system and it's only going to get better.
Meanwhile, the Apple hardware keeps flying along (dual Intels in your new Mac, Dave!).
Of course you made the right decision.
had a a mac once. didn't like it. but this nerdy video is fun to watch:
http://www.youtube.com/w/iMac-G5-vs-iMac-Intel-Boot?v=zmaAZwkhYeQ
Boy, that video was riveting!
Next up... microwaving popcorn.
I think any owner of a Windows XP laptop can relate to the 7 minute boot up time. I can make soup in the time it takes for my computer to get "ready" for work.
I think Dave owns a new ProTools rig... with the Digi02 interface.
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