2009-04-07

been doin dis shit since moby dick was a goldfish



It's been exactly 10 years since my first personal computer was bought for use at college. That Dell was great but it weighed 750lbs with the monitor and the 3 harddrives, the 2 optical drives, and all the PCI expansion cards I threw in to that thing. The mini weighs less than a cantaloupe!

Mac mini dimensions

* Height: 2 inches (5.08 cm)
* Width: 6.5 inches (16.51 cm)
* Depth: 6.5 inches (16.51 cm)
* Weight: 2.9 pounds (1.31 kg)1


Hardware has come a long way and Mac has been doing the right thing with software for decades. It feels like the world has truly changed. As much as I like Linux, there is no comparison to the OS X. Windows has done a grand trick to the world. I have never liked Windows and for many good reasons, but in the last 10 years I've used it perhaps 45% and 55% Linux. It has been interesting only for study but I can't fathom how much productivity has been thrown out the "window" using those ridiculous computers.

Microsoft has perhaps been a necessary evil in the markets. But I would never in a million years wish for anyone to be forced to use their products. Linux of course has revolutionized all of computing and OS X would not exist without it's effects. I finally really feel the wonder of having the best of both worlds with device support and usability designed into the core of the system. The Mac is truly the "user's" computer. But it is also a programmer's computer. Linux is strictly a programmer's platform. And Windows is just absolute garbage. It's neither a cheap alternative nor a compact and transparent vehicle for industry. It's merely an impediment that cripples your interaction between computing devices and your work.

There is no reason to ever use it unless forced by content providers. Not only that, it enforces sinister licensing schemes that are being perpetuated through sub-industries. I have received several new Windows computers over the last year for work and my experience has been far worse than 10 years ago. The user experience has degraded so far below that of the One Laptop Per Child, that it should be a punishable crime. Barack Obama should consider fining them for economic downturn. Maybe all those traders would have made better decisions if they were using Mac's instead of Windows garbage software? They probably did all of it in a fucking Excel Spreadsheet!

But this is the real world. And the real world does always contain necessary evils. So I will just happily plod along with my Windows/Linux work and Mac play.

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