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Decision taken: I don’t even want to try Vista, my laptop is dying quickly and Ubuntu doesn’t seem to work properly these days.
I’m getting a Mac.
I’ve rubbished them for years. I’ve moaned about how they over-simplify things. I’ve joked about how the one time I used a Mac (over 6 years ago) it kept crashing.
And then a few weeks ago I had to install Firefox on an iBook with OS X Tiger installed. It was something beautiful. Drag the icon. Done. No long installation bar, no clicking next and agreeing to sell my soul to whichever company. Just drag, drop, and go.
Then there’s Coda, which looks incredible. The coding interface is uncluttered, the preview actually works, and the CSS editor is like nothing I’ve ever seen. One review said it was good enough to convert people to using a Mac, and in my case it looks like it is.
On top of that, there’s the superb OmniFocus - the to-do list manager that has been crying out to be made and actually has been at last. Sadly, nothing like it exists on Windows.
The “Cult of Mac” has been mentioned many times, but to be honest I’m looking forward to getting the MacBook and these programs so much that I don’t blame fans for being like cultists.
Perhaps I’m setting the standard too high, but it just all looks so much better than Windows…
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November 24th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Nooooooooooo.
How will you waste time on games now?
November 24th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Exactly.
November 26th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Glad to hear it! You might find these pages of (free) Open Source apps very useful: http://www.opensourcemac.org/
And games? Bootcamp is installed on the latest OS, so you can install your legit copy of Windows on a partition and boot into it when you want to play games.
DK
November 26th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Great! Thanks very much for the link - looks like I’ll have some downloading to do over the holidays!
I’ve heard about Boot Camp, but to be honest the reason I’m getting a Mac is to escape Windows. I don’t have any games installed on my laptop at the moment as they just tend to be a distraction from work, so I won’t be missing anything.
Looking forward to playing around with it though!
November 29th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Oh Rob…I knew you would succumb eventually. Well, I didn’t think you ACTUALLY would, but nice one anyway! James