BTW, Macs are Awesome.

[thorfinn]

Oh hi. I forgot to mention. Macs are awesome. Your next computer should be a Mac, assuming you just want a computer where you can do general average day to day stuff and Get Things Done.

If you want to do a specific weird thing (yes, hardcore computer game nerds, that mostly does mean you), then alright, you have special needs, and probably need more thought than just buying a Mac will necessarily get you. You already have the mad skillz needed to go do that. This message isn't for you.

However, for everyone else, if you just want to get connected to the internet, do email, browse the web, maybe do some word processing, download pictures off your digital camera, maybe upload some pictures to the interweb, even have automated hourly backups done for you... then absolutely just get a Mac already.

Oh, and if you're a unix tech-head, you really want a Mac too. Just think, a real Unix OS with a consumer grade UI on top.

See: http://morganjaffit.livejournal.com/34058.html

He says it better than I do.

Comments

[thorfinn]

*nod* Absolutely - but that puts you firmly in the "special needs" camp. :-)

That's not a general purpose machine - I'm guessing you need that pixel density in a small screen because you want to do something hardly anyone else has a need for... I'm guessing ultraportable digital photography in a fairly hardcore/professional way.

[whipartist.livejournal.com]

Nope. Well, yes, but that's not why I want pixels.

I like having lots of data on my screen. I want to be able to have multiple windows side-by-side, with reasonable amounts of data in them. I routinely have a browser window (currently about 750 pixels wide and 1000 pixels tall) on one side, with an ssh window (a bit smaller) on the other side, and a couple of IM windows strewn around. Or two browser windows side-by-side, or two ssh windows, or... well, you get the picture.

I've never understood why people run windowing OSes and then make all the windows full-screen. It seems ludicrous to me.

And that doesn't seem like a special need to me. It's just normal computer use.

OK, there *is* one special need, and that's online poker. I need to be able to tile four poker screens around the monitor. But I'd insist on that resolution even if I wasn't playing poker.

My home and work desktop machines have side-by-side 20" 1600x1200 monitors. That's about perfect for me.

[thorfinn]

Ah right. Yeah, that's "hardcore power user" land. :-) Special needs for j00, sorry. :-/

The majority of users get confused with that much data on screen - they don't have sufficient realtime mental filtering/processing/alerting to handle it.