This is fascinating to me.
I've always been an Apple guy. I've never owned a PC. Actually I did, once, a tiny Sony Vaio and I hated it. Smashed it in fact, onto concrete one day, as hard as I could. Made a gorgeous mess. Yes, I do have a temper, as you well know. (g)
Never forget the spat we had over your one word post removing bot, and how I then found a way in anyway, being booted and all by Jill, through the TAVA clubhouse back door. Remember clubhouses? (g)
Anyhow, I suppose I am an Apple fanboy, sort of. My first computer was the 512Ke, my next one was the Outbound Laptop, which was an Apple clone that got killed by Apple like quick. Still have it. System 7, smooth as butter. (g)
After that, being a laptop dude through and through cause else I'm dead in the water if I cannot carry it with me, I've owned a succession of Apple laptops, latest being the original MacBook Pro, which I bought like seconds after it was announced, precisely because I wanted to run Windows on it, in emulation, via Parallels (Fusion did not exist, yet). Why, you might ask? Because Apple killed an app I needed, which still lived in Windows 2000, so I could keep that app and Apple at the same time. Very slick, I thought, happily, to this day.
So next, being a lover of small laptops, I wanted a very small Mac laptop. Oops, no such thing. But hey, lookie here, a Dell Mini 9 can be hacked to run OS X. Awesome, so I got one, for $250.
Then, I wanted a powerful machine to run my 30" Apple display. I mean, the MacBook Pro runs it just fine, but you know, not fast.
So, as it happens, just down the street lives a designer selling a hot ass hackintosh tower, cause he's just built himself a better one. Well, for $350, his hand me down is like a total screaming wet dream, to me! What the MBP used to take two hours to do, this puppy does in fifteen minutes. I'm in 7th heaven.
All that to say: I ADORE Apple software. Hardware? I often shop elsewhere. Stock? Sold it too soon but not buying, right now.
But I will buy another MacBook Pro, when this one dies. No doubt about it. Can't find a single hackintosh equivalent. Not one.
Why do I love OS X so much? You put your finger on it: not only is it friendly as can be, it can run DOS, every version of Windows, Linux, you name it. Even when it is running on any hackintosh.
No other OS is capable of that. Period. |
