BTW, Macs are Awesome.
2008-Sep-10, Wednesday 17:01![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thorfinnOh 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.
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.
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Date: 2008-09-10 09:23 (UTC)I think it's vastly more common and natural for the majority of users to want to be using one application at a time... and for that purpose, the mac GUI paradigm is the best solution.
You (and I, and most unix geeks) are (unfortunately for us) unusual in that respect.
I agree, Expose + Spaces is nowhere near as good as proper X11 window manager and mouse fu. :-) But the latter is most definitely a metric boatload more complexity than the average user bunny wants or needs.