“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.”
Full article here.
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.]
Oops… Struwwelpeter
Mittens in ’08!!!
i’m in ur whitehouse,
executin’ ur govermints!!!
@ChrissyOne — Got it, read it, found it interesting, insightful and flawed (as any external critique of something inherently internal and spiritual is bound to be).
Now you read mine.
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I think this is a dupe.
Here:
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/12785/
For a second, I thought I was on Slashdot.
Or maybe if you spot the dupes here, you’ve already wasted too muc h time here…
There’s no god, silly man. No matter how many times humans wish it so, it will not be.
-c
MW: ‘child’
I’m wrong, may He strike me de-
{psych!}
Welcome back Marc!
Interesting how God came up on this particular thread. I find the whole question interesting, and the myriad reactions to the question even more fascinating. Someone asked if there was a breakdown of how many christians are pc users vs. Mac – I don’t have any numbers, but I do know that the church I was raised in was hardcore Windows for a long time, and according to my dad it seems to be turning around at a rapid rate. I don’t know if a single denomination can indicate what’s going on in the entire christian movement, but its interesing that this particular group seems to be switching.
Let there be Macs, and let there be even more Mac users.
Isn’t Marc a sorta “has-been”? Why would his switch to OS X be newsworthy… too many years… too late…
Fact is macs have always worked. 13 years ago he had a meeting with a certian microsoft offical.
After a major blow to the head he woke up on the floor to find his Mac was gone and he had a pc on his desk with Win 3.1. He could not remember how he got the pc or figure out who broke a chair over his head.
Wierd huh?
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.
You mean like Apple did with Classic? Seems Daring Fireball was right when he said Windows was the new Classic!
Comment from: Gandalf
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 –
Wow Gandalf. Where did you get your Duo? Mine had a 14.4 Kbps modem. Your 14,000k must’ve really smoked the phone line!
Comment from: frisby
“After a major blow to the head he woke up on the floor to find his Mac was gone and he had a pc on his desk with Win 3.1. He could not remember how he got the pc or figure out who broke a chair over his head.”
Can’t figure out who threw the chair? I am the king of flying chairs I am!
Matty G – That was thed original intent, to make something new that required all new software. The “rest of the world” balked and MS caved so mant times that they lot most (all) of the promised innovation.
Who cares what you believe in Chrissy 1 you terrorist lover……
Do you know what an atheistic dyslexic insomniac does?
Lays awake all night wondering if there really is a dog.
Yep, I just love those religious-lunatic terrorists. You know me.
That’s the smartest you’re going to be today, isn’t it? <sigh> Okay. G’night.
-c
“found it interesting, insightful and flawed (as any external critique of something inherently internal and spiritual is bound to be)”
I find the very concept of spirituality flawed, so it looks like we shall continue to chase one another’s tails.
ah well.
-c
just a shame that this guy who’s company was completely destroyed by Microsoft took so long to realize this.
visionary, my ass !
I recommend movies of Auchwitz and Dachau, the files in any child-welfare agency, quotes by the unlamented Jerry Falwell, Jim & Tammy Bakker’s vacation-getaway bookkeeping, Jimmy Swaggart’s manual on how to be godly, movies of little girls terrorized in Little Rock by the God-fearing, and because no one expects it, heart-warming tales of the Spanish Inquisition.
@Dawkins
I’ve read you, too. Take a chill pill next time you start to write, K?
As for the content of your post, I recommend the words of Jesus. To the extent that they don’t line up with the statements of the aforementioned I state they are off-base.
Here’s what Jesus said about religion and motivations: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind and soul and strength and love your neighbor as yourself. On these two things depend all all the law and the prophets.”
If any of you have a problem with Love… I don’t know. I guess I just suggest that you look in the mirror to find the one who maybe needs to work on their issues. Love. That’s where it starts and stops. If it’s not love it’s not Christianity. Period.
But you’ll hear no more from me… Let’s talk Macs! Let’s hear it for upgrades!
@ChrissyOne
You and I are kindred spirits, I tellyouwhat! We have similar handle’s (OK, I took yours, but for Christopher since that’s my name
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Snot, snot. Drivel, drivel. Whinny whinny whinny. Drivel drivel snot.
“And now I am wondering what is the ratio of christian /pc users vs christian/mac users.”
There are no Christian Mac users, the Apple religion doesn’t like competition.
And anyone who says they’re both a true Christian and a true Mac user is lying because they must be violating the tenants of at least one of the two religions.
For salvation go to http://www.apple.com/store and worshop the Jobs
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