I know it's a little early, but I wanted to talk about Apple Computer's 30th birthday on April 1 so that you'll have plenty of time to order iPod-shaped cupcakes. Or maybe you'd prefer a larger dessert, say something shaped like an iMac, eMac, MacBook Pro, iBook, dual-processor G5 – maybe even the discontinued G4 Cube. Maybe you prefer something retro, like the Apple IIe.
Or, more than likely, you are reading this blog on a Windows-based PC and don't really give a rip about Apple. For us minority weirdos, though, who have turned down jobs that have Apple-free offices, or shell out extra bucks for the machinery we love, it's a milestone. I haven't done it to the Subaru, but my last car actually had an Apple-logo sticker on it (Geek!).
Macs aren't just for the photo, video or graphic-minded. The platform on which they are based is more stable. The operating systems and designs are forward-thinking (remember the Y2K bug? Since 1984, Macs were programmed to be immune). Now with Intel chips, there is the promise of more existing software being even more seamlessly operable than before.
Yes, they cost more. But they last longer. And when a Mac dies, the owner more often turns the case into a fishbowl rather than puts the poor thing at the curb (where you'll find PCs aplenty). If it's time to let go, Mac owners know that it's better to recycle the parts than have them end up in a landfill.
This is no Ford vs. Chevy argument. This is living on Earth (Macs) or trying to live on the moon where there's no food, water or oxygen (PCs).
There are a lot of unknowns, like who on earth could replace Apple's Napoleonesque Steve Jobs? Company leaders forced him out in 1985, and until he returned as CEO in 1997 Apple was on the brink of collapse. Now, thanks mostly to the iPod and iTunes, Apple is raking in money with a vengeance. The other unknown is, when iPods have been "played" in the market, what is next? We Macheads know there will be something, because the company knows that computers aren't really about the computers ... they're about the people who use them.
Now, who out there is a Mac user and what brought you to the Good Side?
Sorry, Tex...I've lived all my life on the dark side. It could explain a lot, actually...
I joined the good guys earlier this year so I could more easily edit videos and create slide shows with photos of my kiddos.
Our Imac has become a fixture on our kitchen counter of all places. It looks like a work of art.
My daughter loves garageband. I love the coolness of owning such a pretty electronic gadget that matches my Ipod.
BTW, we live in Decatur, not too far from the big city.
It is kinda amazing to me that most of the blogs I read are written on Macs. And yes we're mac people. Got started when the med school the better half teaches at went mac in the 90s. I'm working on a G4, daughter and son both have/had powerbooks for college and better half has a 17" powerbook and an iMac at work; then there's the airport extreme, 3 iPods, 3 iSights, 2 'baby' airports. . . .sheesh we're keeping Jobs in business. And son now works for macresq !
I've been a mac user for years. My mother is a graphic designer and Apple was all we ever had or knew. In 1999 I went to work for Dell--and subsequently met my ex-boyfriend who was stricktly PC. So, for a couple of years while we co-habitated I was on to PC. Now that I am on my own again, I have both, a PC laptop and a Mac mini. I wish I had a Powerbook. I love my Mac and only have the PC becuase I work for another Major PC company (though they've gotten away from that business recently) and they gave it to me for work.
Reminds me of the TRS-80 in radio shack set up. I'd program an infinite loop in BASIC to display incrementing numbers, then walk away.
It was my first step along a computer science road that unfortunately ended in 1983 when I got a real job. So now I know nothing.
Man, do I feel like such a loser. I guess I swim with the mainstream cuz I have a PC. But I keep saying that my next computer will be a Mac because I am so sick and tired of dealing with Windows security issues. I guess we'll see if I make the switch?
Yep, longtime Mac user here, and Hub is too . . . we have always had Macs (well, ever since the Commodore 64 died back in the 80s). I only use a PC at work because I'm forced to!
Soon - I'll be making the leap as soon as this pc gives me another session of grief.
In college, I was a lone PC user in a sea of Mac users. I've always embraced the PC. But having just got my first iPod, and feeling nostalgia for the Apple IIe I used in junior high, who knows what the future will hold?