Sunday, April 10, 2005

It's about my Mac...

I'll start with an introduction. My car is a '90 Honda Accord, and I like it alot, but everyone else seems to think it's a piece of junk. I couldn't understand the disconnect until I stepped back and objectively looked at my car, realizing just how unreliable it is and how many little "tweaks" are necessary to keep it going.
The exact same thing has happened to the rest of the world, or most of it at least. You are probably reading this on a Windows based computer. I used to use one, until I -again- stepped back and realized how many little "tweaks" are necessary! It's as bad as my car! All the little tricks you learn to get out of a frozen window without crashing the system; all the options you might need to switch to get it to actually see the network that is plugged into it. And then, in XP, they have that little bubble that comes up, "Help us make Windows better!" This chunk of ones and zeroes costs two hundred dollars! You're supposed to make it better for me! That's what I just payed for! For pity's sake.
As I'm sure you could surmise from the title, I have a Mac. It's a Powerbook, 12 inch. I turned it on, and it worked. That's it. I plugged in the network cable, and it asked me if I wanted to connect to this new network; I said yes. It has a built in firewall; Windows actually used to tout all those open ports as a feature! Can you believe that? (A port is one common way for hackers to get into your computer, a firewall masks those ports from the outside world.)
Well, now I get grumpy whenever I'm forced to use a PC. It just doesn't work. Once you get used to the way the Mac OS does things, it's much easier to use. Ok. I'm done now. Go buy a Mac.

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