{"id":53,"date":"2004-09-27T23:31:48","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T04:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2004-09-27T23:31:48","modified_gmt":"2004-09-28T04:31:48","slug":"just-get-a-mac-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/27\/just-get-a-mac-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Just get a Mac, already"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you know me, know know I have been a long-time advocate of getting an Apple Macintosh. I don’t claim that it’s a perfect platform, but with Mac OS X, any serious reservations I’ve had in the past have vanished.
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\nMy philosophy on this point is simple; I found myself tweaking the computer more than I was using it. Fixing problems, installing software to make the experience a little more efficient, updating the configuration to fit the way I work (but really, mostly fixing problems). When I got my first Mac I had an epiphany: I was using the computer much, much more than I was tweaking it, even though the Mac was “woefully underpowered” as compared to the Windows machines I used.<\/em><\/p>\n

This was nothing short of revolutionary. My new creedo? “I don’t do Windows.” At least, not at home, anyway. That was in 1993.<\/p>\n

John Gruber’s latest over at Daring Fireball<\/a> doesn’t really change my mind because I gave up on Windows so long ago. However, there’s a suggestion, for me at least, that I may be on the leading edge of a growing trend.<\/p>\n

Folks, this Kool-Aid isn’t spiked with anything. And yes, it is delicious… quite<\/em> delicious.<\/p>\n

PS: If you thought an iPod worked well with Windows, find some way to get yourself to your nearest Apple Store and see it work on a Mac. It’s a beautiful thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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