Fruit is a better view
So for those of you that do not know I recently switched from PC to Mac.
3 Years ago I would have laughed if anyone would have told me I would be doing this. Yeh, my first *real* programming experience was on Mac (albeit with Java as the language of choice), and I have used Mac’s in my past, but moving from Windows to Mac. Pah!
Oh my word, am I glad I did. In the words of John Newton “I was blind but now I see”: The whole computer experience is not meant to be this good is it? Where are the crashes, the hangs and those hilariously cryptic messages (yes many of them are non-understandable by geeks too)…
I am positive that I will be blogging Apple’s praises in the coming months. One of the things that had stopped me switching (or even consider switching) before now is that I am a power user. I don’t need the fancy GUI and the simple setup. I am a real life hairy hunter gatherer programming neanderthal. ROAR! Yeh… wrong. I am a power user, but why suffer unneccesarily? I can have all the frills that windows (even Vista folks) cannot do, and yet drop down to a unix shell and have all the intimate bash fun I want!
As my brother-in-law would say: “Why have pie when you can have cake?”
I love my Apple MacBookPro. fin.
Scott Rippee Said,
March 3, 2007 @ 10:18 pm
I’ve also made the switch also and its been great. I too would have been surprised if someone told me that I’d have a Mac a few years back, but now I wouldn’t have it anyway. Its amazing having a system that has software on it that is always working (as oppose to my linux and windows boxes) and still have the power of the shell at my finger tips.
Anyways, windows it out to the door at home. The mac book pro and a Linux box to server stuff are the perfect fit.
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March 10, 2007 @ 9:46 am
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