If you know me, you know I have been a Macintosh man for most of life. I’ve had an Apple Macintosh since the first 512ke models came out in 1985-1986. I fell in love with the visual computing paradigm, and realized what a boon it would be for those who needed a computer, but did not have the time to learn to use. Command line was King in those days, and the Macintosh was derided for it’s lack of a command line facility. Those were heady days, I remember buying another floppy drive and thinking I had the world by the tail because I had 1 meg of memory and two 720 KB floppy drives. I had to crack my case and install the memory myself. The computer still runs, or at least my sister keeps telling me.
Then i got into the business of computer instruction and since PCs were heavy into the business world, I bought a PC. I also bought another Mac. It still had the black and white. The one thing I bought it for was the PIM and the fact that america online was a Mac only product at that time.
Then there was the interregnum of mac ownership while Apple sorted out what it wanted to do. When the first iMac came out, I bought one, which lead to a powerbook and the Mac pro tower. Now I am finally back in the Mac fold. I still have a PC, which has Ubuntu and Windows XP on it. My main machine is the new iMac ( I got the 24 inch monitor) and a macbook pro. I find that IO am more productive on these machines. I write more words and code, respond to emails quicker, and I don’t loose appointments as much. It’s never a chore to turn on a Mac, while I turn on the PC and if I boot into windows, I cringe. The software I want is less expensive that what I had to have on the PC. What’s even better is that I don’t have to wait for the games I want to come out for the Mac. Several online games have realized that their code can be ported over to the Mac if they use Cider. Eve online is one of those games. WOW already was mac enabled from the get go. I sure hope that Warhammer and Warhammer 40K get that, and port over to the mac.
