Pretty interesting weblog from a PC columnist from InfoWorld
Magazine. This magazine as a whole seems to be rapidly becoming
another lover of Mac OS X (following in the footsteps of the biggest
technical publisher O'Reilly's love affair
http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/)
-Mart
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/dickerson/2003/08/18.html
CHAD DICKERSON'S WEBLOG
Monday, August 18, 2003
OK, Apple -- you win
Completely coincidentally, I happened to dig into Mac OS X at
precisely the same time InfoWorld is running its online special
report and print cover story on Apple in the enterprise
<http://www.infoworld.com/reports/SRapple.html>. Because I didn't
have much to say about Apple just over a week ago when I filed my
column, my column appearing in the magazine this week is about paying
money for open source solutions .
In the meantime, the hard drive on my home computer died. Hard
drives are replaceable, of course, but seeing as this particular
machine was a vintage 450mhz Dell from late 1998, I took it as a sign
that I needed to change. I've had a spare 450mhz Mac G4 (not even
close to the newest one, mind you -- we're talking $600 on eBay) at
my desk at work for a while now and only used it occasionally, so I
decided to give OS X a more serious whirl by using that machine as my
primary computer at home for a while. I made a date with the G4 for
Saturday -- it was clearly a "meet for coffee, get to know you" kind
of date, not even as serious as a lunch date, and not even
approaching the gravity of a dinner date.
Two days later, and I'm head over heels -- I've asked the G4 to move
in for good. I converted my iPod from Windows to Mac (it's easy
folks -- just plug the Windows iPod into your Mac and run
"Restore"), dove into iTunes, configured Samba to share the Mac
filesystem to my wife's PC, and made the G4 and OS X the center of my
household computing universe. If you're partial to Unix like me and
you've been hearing about OS X for a while now, thinking, "yeah,
yeah, whatever, Mac frontend, Unix backend -- I'll check it out fully
one of these days" . . . . well, give it a try. There's just
something about it.
Look for an InfoWorld column with more about my switch experience in
a few weeks.
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