So one of my friends has been razzing me a little bit about getting a mac book. I expected to get some of this, especially from this friend. Fact of the matter is I know he isn't entirely serious it's just not something he would choose for his own personal reasons.
I chose it for my own reasons. Not because I think it's vastly superior to others, they simply are diffrent it is a matter of taste really. Not because its trendy or hip/popular, I'm not gonna go get glasses I don't need and a some turtle necks and start drinking weird coffee drinks that I am unable to pronounce and hanging out in starbucks. Not because they look better, prior to deciding on the macbook I was looking at IBM thinkpads, which I have much respect and admiration for as they are very well built and usually preform well, but they are far from being prettiest.
I wanted a change. I've been using windows some version or another for what seems like a hundred years now. I've been using and learning linux for the better part of 10 years now. It is time for me do to something a bit diffrent. Something that isn't either one of these. I've got my bash shell for geeking out and doing fun/weird things, I've also got an accelerated elegant graphical interface. Yes I could have these things with linux or windows to some degree, but I don't want to upgrade every three to six months to get the latest packages to work or to have to compile drivers to make acceleration work only to have to recompile or reinstall them after a kernel update a week later, and I don't want to go near vista.
OS X, Windows, Linux all have their strengths and weaknesses but fact of the matter is you can do everything you want on any one of them with the right programs, applications and knowledge. When all else fails you can always use something like VMware or Wine or cygwin to run what needs to be run to get the job done.
I will continue to use linux on my servers, and keep using Windows on my desktop at home. I am going to learn and try something new with my new laptop. So I'm not really switching as much as I am expanding my knowledge and satisfying curiositys.
Posted by Ben at February 05, 2008 08:30 AMYeah whatever, Mac Fanboy!
Hahaha, just kidding. Macs are pretty sweet. I'm jealous, but it's the price tag that kills me.
Posted by: dusty on February 5, 2008 09:55 AMYa, man. One of the big reasons I got one was so that I could learn another OS, since I hadn't used a Mac since about 8th grade. Plus they really do work much better than PCs, and of course they're prettier.
Posted by: bonnie on February 5, 2008 02:16 PMMac? Aren't you the one that called it a speak'n'spell? Learn a real OS! Like Netware! Or OS2 WARP!
Posted by: Nathan on February 6, 2008 10:03 PMYou must be confused sir. I've never called a mac a speak-n-spell, perhaps you are thinking of Rob... Netware is moving more and more towards linux...
OS2 is dead but also hard to find and then you have to find hardware to run it on as well. I've learned my way around IRIX and Solaris over the past few years as well, just not as well as I know linux.