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changelingReally not fucking impressed.
As a long-standing PC user who knows far less about the workings (both hardware and software) of a computer than I can really justify, I've always had a soft spot for Macs. In the same way that wannabe revheads might admire a car owned by the cool kid at school with a pompadour, I know that many of the people I admire and who are far better at this whole computer business than I use Macs. Douglas Adams used a Mac, and as Salmon of Doubt showed us, a more computer savvy layman would be hard to find.
However, something I do not enjoy at all are PowerMacs. These were the "good" computers in our Mac lab that MacRob had when I was in year 9. They forced us to learn (in my case re-learn) how to use computers on these artifacts of an early age. The majority of the Macs in that room were the ancient ones (II? Not sure what they were called) that were one rectangular (rather unattractive) blob.
Coming from a family when I've usually had reasonable (if not amazingly great) computers, working on very slow computers is frustrating. Particularly if, like me today, you want to have a Word Document open as well as several Netscape windows.
To me Macs are like the idea of Avalon to Geoffrey of Monmouth; it's the idea that something can be better than what you have at the moment. But right at the moment, Macs are seeming a bit insubstantial. At the moment all I can find is Glastonbury Abbey.
As a long-standing PC user who knows far less about the workings (both hardware and software) of a computer than I can really justify, I've always had a soft spot for Macs. In the same way that wannabe revheads might admire a car owned by the cool kid at school with a pompadour, I know that many of the people I admire and who are far better at this whole computer business than I use Macs. Douglas Adams used a Mac, and as Salmon of Doubt showed us, a more computer savvy layman would be hard to find.
However, something I do not enjoy at all are PowerMacs. These were the "good" computers in our Mac lab that MacRob had when I was in year 9. They forced us to learn (in my case re-learn) how to use computers on these artifacts of an early age. The majority of the Macs in that room were the ancient ones (II? Not sure what they were called) that were one rectangular (rather unattractive) blob.
Coming from a family when I've usually had reasonable (if not amazingly great) computers, working on very slow computers is frustrating. Particularly if, like me today, you want to have a Word Document open as well as several Netscape windows.
To me Macs are like the idea of Avalon to Geoffrey of Monmouth; it's the idea that something can be better than what you have at the moment. But right at the moment, Macs are seeming a bit insubstantial. At the moment all I can find is Glastonbury Abbey.