What is the “Zen of Mac?”
Software engineer Noah Gift explains in his O’Reilly ONLamp blog:
You don’t think, it just works. As software engineers, systems administrators, or people that are very technical, it can be difficult to just not think about your desktop computer. The reality is that you are more productive on solving your other problems when you don’t think about your computer, it just works.
Find out why a Nobel prize winner prefers Macs and how Linux users (and, by proxy, Windows sufferers) should approach Apple’s Mac OS X in the full post here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Linux Guy And Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
It doesn’t really matter how many products – hardware or software – are available to windows users.
All I really care about is what works for me and in my work and play (in realation to my computers).
Macs just work for me. When I have a computer ‘crisis” – rarely but they do happen on ocassion; I have discovered is it something that i did in trying to tweek my computing environement. rrely is it Apple’s fault. And when it is – they fix it – period.
Can you wind-does (as in cought in the headlights) users claim that? Will M$ comeo to your aid when you mention th emagic word – mission critical or will they use the tried and ture mega-business excuse: It isn’t our fault, it must be a hardware problem.
I don’t really know what I would od if I had to switch to wind-blows. Probably stop using computers and pull out the slide rule again.
Apple make the best computing products – hands down! Period. Full stop!
MDN = products
windows = hell
mac OS = heaven
Microsoft = The Devil
Apple = God
God created Heaven.. not Man
who wants to go to heaven with me? here Drink this..
I have 12,994 photos in my iphoto and it works GREAT (everyday)
I had that book, Zen and the Art of the Macintosh. That was a really fun and funny book, about a designer’s illumination on the Macintosh Way. I’m surprised it is out of print. You can bet there is a copy on Steve Job’s bookshelf, as well as Bill Atkinson, et. al.
The one and only reason people, brilliant or otherwise, continue to use Windows is because…
…they haven’t discovered Mac yet.
End of story. Because -unsurprisingly- no-one ever heard of a switcher from Mac to Windows.
“I thought it was just that while Microsoft thinks people should understand computers, Apple thinks that computers should understand people.”
Completely brilliant.
No need to talk about Apple and M$ ever again this is it right here!
If you came up with that yourself, I’d try to protect it somehow. If not sorry I never heard it before.