STANDING OVATION

[kickaha]

Yes, I am an unabashed Apple whore. Have been for years.

But this column is Dead Fricking On. No other company in any other industry would ever get away with it. Annoying.

Comments

[lirrin.livejournal.com]

First of all, I read that as "Standing ovulation". That took a second.

And, I just "upgraded" (hahahahahahha) to XP SP2 last night, which toasted my IE, hosed my firewall, and appears to have zorched a bunch of other stuff.

So. I'm seriously contemplating buying a Mac when we go to replace Todd's computer. Can a many-years Windows user learn to use one of them things? (I'm sure I can.) More to the point, can I train my not-computer-savvy hubby in one?

[f-x.livejournal.com]

As a long time windows person who went Mac (at least partially), you can figure it out. In some ways, your hubby may have an easier time as it seems people with no background pick up Mac quickly. The rest of us have to untrain certain habits...

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

What f_x said. :)

The biggest problem you'll have is unlearning the workarounds you've had to get used to in Windows. Basically, you can try just about anything without fear of it breaking anything, and secondly, it almost always works the way you would expect it to.

Oh, and drag and drop is *ubiquitous*. Have a Finder window open to a directory with an image file in it? Drag and drop it to a mail window to add it as an attachment. Or to a Keynote window to include it in a presentation. Or to an iChat window to send it to someone else via IM. Drag text from one app to another, or drag an image off a web page and plop it anywhere. This works across the system, between apps from just about any developer, not just the company that produced one particular suite.

It's almost, *gasp*, fun.

No, actually, it is.

[jinasphinx.livejournal.com]

I gotta confess, I am not a Mac person, but they got me one of the new pizza-box style ones at work (the entire thing is contained in the monitor, which is about 2" thick). And I'm starting to like them. Admittedly, anything would be better than the ancient dying iMac with an itty-bitty screen that they had me using before; but I think even I could learn to love Mac. Not enough to shell out the $1600 + software that my new work machine costs (I'll stick with my $500 spyware-laden PC for home), but enough to be friendly with them.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

How about a $500 non-spyware-laden Mac? ;)

http://www.apple.com/macmini/

[jinasphinx.livejournal.com]

Damn you, Apple pusher! :)