“After being spoiled in my college years (1989-1993) by a Silicon Graphics IRIS workstation, I was Mac-based (the legendary Mac Duo notebook) for about a year and then switched to Windows 3.1 in an effort to experience what most of the rest of the world was using. Let’s just pretend the next 13 years never happened. Now I’m back on the Mac,” blogs Marc Andreessen, co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and cofounder of Netscape.
“The most wonderful thing about the Mac in 2007 is that it has what Bill Joy refers to as the ‘it works’ feature. The second most wonderful thing about the Mac in 2007 is that it is all three of the major operating systems in one: you get the Mac user interface and applications; you get Unix underneath the covers… And by running Parallels or VMWare Fusion you also get Windows XP,” Andreessen explains.
“The third most wonderful thing about the Mac in 2007 is the amazing lineup of software — free/open source, shareware, and commercial — at one’s fingertips. The topic of my next post will be the results of my somewhat extensive recent research into an ideal Mac OS X application set for 2007,” Andreessen writes.
“The fourth most wonderful thing about the Mac in 2007 is the hardware,” Andreessen writes. “Being able to ride the commoditized Intel/PC hardware price/performance curves due to Apple’s wholesale shift over the last decade from totally proprietary hardware to industry standard hardware is producing some truly lovely machines — such as my shiny new 15-inch Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro. Heaven with cream cheese on top.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Another tech luminary makes the switch to the superior platform. Welcome back home, Marc!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Patrice” and “Joe” for the heads up.]
Out of principal, you think he would have been avoiding Microsoft from the beginning rather than changing now….
These guys are worth 1 point of market share to Mac over a year I’d reckon.
Apple is on fire now.
“Heaven with cream cheese on top.”
Isn’t that a Vegas act?
Mmmmmm….cheese…
The Tipping Point ® is close to happening– definitely accelerating. I just got off the phone with another switcher explaining some basics. The conversation basically went like this: Oh, cool!
More switchers on the way, especially as more “trustables” take the plunge. In case anyone wasn’t sure, I’m a trustable.
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MDN “anyone, as in “…can switch.”
“switched to Windows 3.1 in an effort to experience what most of the rest of the world was using”
Well that’s a great reason! Maybe I’ll start believing in God!
The Steve Jobs and Bill Gates D5 Conference is on iTunes. Watch it if you can, it’s very interesting.
Oh ChrissyOne, do.
ChrissyOne.
“Well that’s a great reason! Maybe I’ll start believing in God!”
You crack me up!
And now I am wondering what is the ratio of christian /pc users vs christian/mac users.
I wonder if there is a similar break down along ID and Darwin?
But back OT. More people, high profile or not are seeing the light.
If quantity was the final decider then the Ford Pinto is superior to a Porsche 911
Enjoy
“experience what most of the rest of the world was using”
Most of the world lives in poverty. I can pass on an experience just because the majority is doing it.
God
I recommend “The Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life” by Nicholi.
Amazon.com’s Link
I recommend “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason” by Sam Harris.
Amazon.com’s Link
Can you imagine 13 years of Windblows, Virus infestation and malfunction… and gotty look of the thing…. gotta cripple the evolutionary progress of the brain about 30 years backwards every week….
Yuckkkkkk!
… and don’t forget 5436 Trillon flies eat s%#it every day, yeah I can pass on that too…
For someone who comes off as somewhat intelligent. I wonder why it took Marc so long to “see the light”. Geez, after what MS did to Netscape, you’d think the light was overwhelmingly bright a long time. He ought to see an eye doctor sooner than later.
Netscape 4.7.6 on OS 9.1 – man, that browser flew!!! Nothing like it since!
Ahhh, the good-not-so-old-days.
In light of the recent MBP updates, I hope he didn’t just purchase his machine
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something that truly fails me about microsoft is rather than shoehorn the legacy that is windows into vista, why not make something new and include that legacy in a proper virtualization system.
the amount they have lost out on there is unreal, now people can run a Mac and have the windows legacy sidestepping vista completly
so much for revolutionary
I know what you mean. Just when you think you got the greatest computer Apple has ever made, they go ahead and make it even better.
I recommend:
Pascal’s Pensees,
The Critique of Practical Reason by Kant,
God and Other Minds by Plantinga,
Nausea by Sartre
Hmmm, and new Netscape beta today.
Coinkydink?
I think not.
Nostalgia. Mosaic was the first browser I used on my Duo. It had an internal modem, 14,400k and that was quite fast then, sure impressed people when I plugged it in to their phone line – until they got the bill
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That is:
Pascal’s Pensees,
The Critique of Practical Reason by Kant,
God and Other Minds by Plantinga,
Nausea by Sartre
He makes it sound like Macs in 2007 are suddenly working… the “it works” thing. Macs have always just worked, Marc. Glad you could finally figure that out.
http://www.MittensRomney.com/
I recommend:
Green Eggs and Ham by Suess
Love’s Executioner by Yalom
Der Struweelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann
Miss Lonelyhearts by West
Oh, and I also recommend that people relax and save those who seek it.