Consumer Whoredom

[snousle]

Just dropped the big bucks on a fully loaded macbook air. Ironically its primary use will be for running Remote Desktop to a Windows machine. But it is also because my abandoned-by-a-client notebook is showing it's age and is just too fucking heavy to travel with. Also, mechanical hard disks are not motorcycle friendly. And also because I cannot pry the iPad out of Bill's hands - or, rather, hand, lol. And, you know, THE CLOUD.

It will be the first time in a long time I've used a Mac to any degree. Since back before OSX. But since OSX is actually the spawn of Nextstep, which I spent a lot of time with in the 90s, it is still weirdly familiar.

Comments

[gloeden.livejournal.com]

I don't understand a thing you wrote but it's FORCING me to believe it.

[growler-south.livejournal.com]

Did you go for the 11 or the 13? I liked the spec of the 13 but the 11 was THE PRECIOUSSSSS...

It's what I always imagined a laptop should be- light, wafer thin, ludicrously strong, and no stupid vents or flaps. And yes, it's more expensive than the same components housed inside an ugly, plastic Dell-branded case, but if I value build quality over economy.

Oh dear. I just ranted like a fanboy on your blog. Sorry. :-)

[snousle.livejournal.com]

Well, it's what Apple does best - making everything else look like trash! Given that I've gone for a completely nomadic job, it's sort of dumb to not have it.

[twobraids.livejournal.com]

We'll assume that Paul's influence pushed you to join the collective. I think he gets to claim a free iToaster now.

[sig-info.livejournal.com]

oh god they got snousle too

[adminbear.livejournal.com]

Interesting of the timing. I should be getting my Macbook Pro by the end of next week. 13", loaded to the tits. Like you, it will be my first escape into the mac world in many years. I'm really looking forward to it.

[bluebear2.livejournal.com]

The first time I saw a demonstration of OS X at a store my reaction was "Hey, it's Amiga DOS reincarnated!". The guy at the store didn't like that reaction but being that both NeXTstep and Amiga DOS were so ahead of their times in the '80s and '90s that they were similar. Every Amiga owner I knew also was running AmiDock which was an add-on thing based on NeXT's dock. Learning OS X took very little time at all because of all the similarities.

The reason Apple products sell so well is because they're well designed and well built and they have slick marketing.
The Macbook Air is way cool. Consider it your camping computer.

[backrubbear.livejournal.com]

I had a very similar reaction to os/x when I started using it. I liked my Amiga quite a bit and much of using a Mac is just the Amiga without right clicking to get the menu bar.

I just wish their keystrokes for controlling text were closer to IBM CUA.

[broduke2000.livejournal.com]

We been using it for about a year. No problemo!

[barbarian-rat.livejournal.com]

congrats on the new addition ... ; )

[bikerbaer.livejournal.com]

Yay.