From Apple to PC to iMac to iTodd
This weekend I joined the Apple Realm, a kinder, gentler, more enlightened place than the World of PC, particularly that horrible dictatorship known as Vista.
Actually, I've rejoined the Apple Realm.
Way back in 1985 or so, my first personal computer was an Apple IIe. It had a green screen. I went upscale and bought a second floppy disk drive (back when disks really were floppy) so I could run a program and save data all at the same time. I also had some Apple printer t
hat weighed 50 pounds or so.
Ever since, about 1988 or so, however, I've been a PC person.
Oh, I liked my Apple fine. But I seemed to live in the World of PC.
But I'll tell you what put me back in the Apple Realm. First, Apple users. They love their machines. They brag about their machines. Their machines are akin to the angels.
The other thing? Windows Vista.
What a piece of utter crap. It's a memory hog compared to Windows XP, lets me do fewer things to fix problems, and constantly crashes.
So, I went to my favorite store on the face of the planet--Best Buy--talked to a nice gal in a blue shirt, and brought home the basic iMac.
First, I love the 20 inch screen. Marvelously easy to read and great graphics.
Second, I love how fast it runs. It is much faster than any PC I've ever used.
Third, it never crashes.
The only drawback that I've found is that there aren't as many print drivers out there as I thought. My iMac won't talk to my fancy new HP Laserjet color printer or my Samsung black and white printer. So I'm using some cheaper HP printers that it will work with.
But as I learned from my iPod and iTunes, Apple stuff is just engineered to be more intuitive.
So, just call me iTodd of the Apple Realm.
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Actually, I've rejoined the Apple Realm.
Way back in 1985 or so, my first personal computer was an Apple IIe. It had a green screen. I went upscale and bought a second floppy disk drive (back when disks really were floppy) so I could run a program and save data all at the same time. I also had some Apple printer t
hat weighed 50 pounds or so.Ever since, about 1988 or so, however, I've been a PC person.
Oh, I liked my Apple fine. But I seemed to live in the World of PC.
But I'll tell you what put me back in the Apple Realm. First, Apple users. They love their machines. They brag about their machines. Their machines are akin to the angels.
The other thing? Windows Vista.
What a piece of utter crap. It's a memory hog compared to Windows XP, lets me do fewer things to fix problems, and constantly crashes.
So, I went to my favorite store on the face of the planet--Best Buy--talked to a nice gal in a blue shirt, and brought home the basic iMac.
First, I love the 20 inch screen. Marvelously easy to read and great graphics.
Second, I love how fast it runs. It is much faster than any PC I've ever used.
Third, it never crashes.
The only drawback that I've found is that there aren't as many print drivers out there as I thought. My iMac won't talk to my fancy new HP Laserjet color printer or my Samsung black and white printer. So I'm using some cheaper HP printers that it will work with.
But as I learned from my iPod and iTunes, Apple stuff is just engineered to be more intuitive.
So, just call me iTodd of the Apple Realm.
Technorati Tags: iMac, PC, computers, Apple, iPod, iTunes
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008
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Todd Epp
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Apple is running a really good ad taking a shot at Vista and Vista users. First and only thing on TV in the last few days that has made me laugh out loud.
But, time for SD and SD schools to switch to LINUX and Open Source Office etc. Should do it myself, but sometimes this old dog has trouble barking let alone learning new tricks.
Todd - good to see you're going "corporate."
I, on the other hand am using the occasion to install linux (freespire) on a box I just acquired.
And I didn't have to spend "x" thousand to do it. It was legitimately free.
Pat:
You know, in the Apple TV ads, the cool guy is Mac. That would be me. The nerdy guy is PC. There is no Linux guy in the ad. So, you don't even rate being a nerdy guy.
I'm just sayin'.
iTodd
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1439&tag=nl.e589
About "upgrading" from Vista to XP.