So, I've been a Mac user for almost a full year now. During early spring last year, my three-year old frankenstein of a computer, Ophelia, died. (I name all my computers after Shakespearean heroines or the actresses known for playing them). Since I can. not. live without a computer, I ordered a MacBook Pro (Sybil, if you were wondering).
Flash forward to today. In less than a year, I have designed and implemented five different website ideas, cobbled out a plan to lead to my eventual financial freedom, and regaled you with over a hundred and forty entries full of lies from my twisted manic brain. I am more productive than I think it's legal to be; I'm sure that as soon as I turn away from this post, the Conformity Police will be here with a pair of handcuffs and that painful-ass probe (or, you know. Painful ass-probe) to punish me for being so much better than the rest of society.
When I ran a windows box, well, I knew exactly what to do when something went wrong. It usually involved uninstalling, because windows picks up problems like stupid hookers pick up crotch rot. I was intrigued by the concept of running a nice visual windowing system on top of the stable, safe, sexy core that is Unix. I was tired of configuring Xfce4 and fluxbox. (Dear non-techies: "Me no like work. Windows am dumb."). And now, here I am, driven into a cycle of shame and humiliation by my sexy-ass notebook, the one that makes everyone else's laptops look like they were developed by Tonka.
The problem is that there are about a thousand different things that I could be doing with my laptop, and I am ashamed to only be using it for web design. You can write applications rapidly and easily in OS X... but I don't particularly want an application that isn't readily available. You can make widgets with CSS and Javascript; you can explore the mighty world of BSD; you can dance upon the heads of angels and kick Jupiter around the moon. Geez. The glossy widescreen means that at the very least, I should at least be downloading high quality porn.
I think this is the point where the machines take over.
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LOL ....
I only use my Mac mini for video editing. And I use iMovie, not even Finalcut.
I dunno what to do with it when (if ever) it goes haywire, which thankfully, has only been once.
I haven't owned an Apple computer since my Apple IIe wayyyyy back when. Those mac books are beautiful, admittedly, but I'm not ready to own one (yet). I have ogled them at the Apple store! I do, however, have two iPods. I think Steve Jobs wants us all to get so much confidence in Apple via these devices other than macs that we'll start buying them again. Then they'll start with the mind control... heh
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