“I lost a good friend today. After an extended loan period, Apple finally asked for its iMac evaluation machine back. Now everyone in this household is going through withdrawl,” Robert L. Mitchell writes for Computerworld.
“Apple originally sent the iMac as background for a feature I wrote on the future of the GUI. It was supposed to be here for a month or two. As the weeks and months ticked by no one wanted to see it go home. Apple didn’t ask. We didn’t tell,” Mitchell writes.
“Meanwhile, I kept trying to find time in my schedule to set it up as my primary work machine, as Scott Finnie did recently with a MacBook Pro. He never went back. Between other deadlines I never got around to the project,” Mitchell writes.
Mitchell writes, “But for 10 months we have had Windows XP home computer and the iMac test machine running side by side. And for the kids, the iMac became the preferred machine – even for Web browsing. I have repeatedly asked them why they prefer the Mac and they don’t have an immediate answer. They just like it better.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Robert, they like it better because it is better.
I left Apple after they retired the Apple IIgs. It was a decade before I came back. 15 minutes with OS X is what did it.
@crabapple: Most kids prefer MacDonalds. I don’t think that helps the argument much.
It doesn’t reality check, but it does make amusing reading.
Oh My
My grandson’s favorite app is…..Photobooth. He loves to use different effects and silly poses. I have found about 70 picures he has done with no one around. Hilarious!
Ok folks, time to haul out that ol’ anology – lest we forget.
Once upon a time, 1,000 years or so ago, the Kingdom was still using Roman Numerals to keep track of the bean count. It worked, but not well.
Then we discovered how to ‘think different’ from the Arabs.
But, many among us resisted the numeric change (what in the hell is that zero thing anyway?). And leading that group were the Mystical Keepers of the Count who were probably going to lose their jobs.
Never-the-less – the People slowly opened their eyes as the little children, the misfits, the square pegs in the round holes – those who were innocent and supple and not afraid – showed them the way.
And they all lived happily after.
Well, maybe, seems we do have to re-invent the wheel ever so often
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Thank You
BC Kelly
Tallahassee Fla
Opps – is “analogy”, duh
Take a memo – fire that proof-reader
BC
Its just the way in both the operating system work. I swear, when ever I have to help out my family with computer by using Windows…I feel like I’m degrading miserably…even though its only for a matter of minutes. The reason why almost 99% of people who’ve switched to Macs dont go back is becuase of the simplicity to use OS X. Everything is thought out…and everything is properly shown. Since it runs on UNIX, its extremely stable, and internet browsing has never been more safer.
I myself ONLY use Windows for gaming now…that too with an OS X like theme, and an OS X background (Aqua). Lol. I can’t stand that el cheapo fisher-price style XP GUI, nor those 48×48 pix icons….when coming from OS X, which I use at 128 x 128 pix icons.
I also use Linux (Ubuntu) with beryl…and it just totally blows away vista’s cheap visual effects. Honestly, most people think that Vista is all that because of the visual effects…however once they see the true power of Quartz Extreme (OS X) or Beryl (Linux)….it changes their mind completely. Few of my friends are living examples.
Simplicity and powerfulness is the key to life….and Apple has mastered that in both exterior (Macs)…and interior (OS X).
I remember using MS 2.11 on a Radio Shack computer. Then one day my friend let me use this Apple thing. Screen and the cpu were together. I turned it on–wow. The GUI was amazing. No more DOS! I was hooked on Apple after that.
Quad Core
“…even for web browsing”
I don’t quite understand that thought. Perhaps if it said “even for gaming”. Is there some sort of perceived flaw with Macs and web browsing?
Could be someone who remembers how badly Internet Explorer ran on OS 9. There was pretty much only Netscape as an alternative and IE was the default browser. It was horrible, and essentially orphaned after the Microsoft/Apple deal that got it on every new Mac sold.
Until I got the wireless password, I was using friend’s XP box here in Paris.
I was using Firefox.
It was SLOW, this on a recent box with plenty of RAM.
XP is just plain UGLY. The text is choppy and pixelated.
Firefox XP looks awful compared to Firefox Mac.
Did I mention UGLY?
By comparison, my PowerBook G4 1.67, with TWO Airport bars loads pages like lightning. And Safari sure looks pretty by comparison.
Well, it’s off to Montparnasse for the day. Adieu!
My children learned on a Mac twenty years ago. Mac IIGS. It took me a month to figure out how to use it. Why? Because coming from DOS, I COMPLETELTY missed the simplicity and elegance of the Mac OS. It was too simple.
Interestingly, because of my children’s early experiences with the Mac, they were able to use Mac and Window platforms throughout their childhoods.
They’re current preferred choice of PC’s?
Mac.