Feb 24 2008
Dude you just bought a… Mac?
Guess what bitches? That’s right, we bought an iMac. I have to be honest, it wasn’t exactly my idea, in fact I bought it as a gift for my wife’s birthday (she’s so fucking old now). My wife is a much bigger techno-geek than I am, we have something like 437 iPods and iPod accessories around the house plus countless PDA’s, cell phones, DVD players, and whatever gadget you can think of. So getting an iMac wasn’t a huge stretch. What was surprising to me, is that the box that included the computer didn’t come with a black turtleneck, black rimmed sunglasses, and an application to go work at an ad-agency. I guess you were supposed to be wearing those things before you open the box.
What’s really cool about the machine (warning: I’m going to geek out here for a second), is that the operating system is based on UNIX. The iMac OS on our new machine is called OSX “Leopard”, and is based on the BSD flavor of UNIX. Click here for even more geeky information about OSX. So what? you may ask… well it seems to me that the marketing dudes over at Apple should be playing that card way more strongly than they are. They should be hitting up the techno-savvy guys that are tired of Microsoft’s poor software equally as hard as the disheveled hipsters in their ads. I don’t think I will ever be a complete convert, because unlike our retarded political system in the US, a person can actually be in both camps at the same time in this situation as tech is tech (i.e., a means to an ends).
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I got a mac-mini at work a couple of years ago and switched over to it exclusively, mostly because of the Unix OS.
Then they made me start developing everything on a .NET platform and I had to change back to a Windows machine. Actually not a bad deal since I got to keep the mini anyway.
I’ll be buying a mac for home, err work, at my house soon for the audio and video editing ease. Plus they’re just so much more hassle free.
iPod=POS
Vista=POS
In reality, most people should probably just Ubuntu on a $200 box from Wal Mart. It will do way more than they’d ever ask of it.
I love my Mac OS. I’ve had it since 2003, same computer, just upgrading when needed. It’s never once crashed, always turns on when I need it to and doesn’t spit back stupid error messages when I try to do more than one thing at a time.
Of course, I still have a PC at work and that drives me crazy to deal with daily, but then I come home to the love that is my Mac and all is well with the world again.
Congrats on your new purchase.
You know you’re gay when you think Juno is not a chick flick and you buy a mac.
HM: this from the guy who loves Air Supply….
I would rather stick a lit cigarette in my eye then to buy a Mac. I hate Apple and all people who work for Apple. Don’t get me started!!
Can’t stop jumping in now that I’ve started.
My first Mac was a 512, you do the math.
I may be old, but come on, I’m a long time cool…