The Cult of Mac
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…