Looking around at a lot of people I know, it seems like I’m the only one *not* using or at least praising the Mac. Why haven’t I taken the plunge yet? Well, it’s not any “OS A sucks, B rulez!!1!” mentality; OSX sounds just great from most reports so far.
I already have two working systems, a full-time Linux server for ‘work’ and a dual boot XP/Linux system for gaming and other CPU-intense tasks, and between them I have pretty much all of my needs covered. Whenever I upgrade it’s almost always to get better gaming performance, not for experimental systems. I don’t really have the room for a new system and I’m not about to *replace* a whole system with a relatively unknown (to me) one. I just don’t have any big incentive to switch or add in a Mac yet.
Except maybe in one spot… The one thing I’m still missing is a laptop. It’s always been a fairly low priority item for me since I don’t travel much, but there’s the odd time it might be useful. Since the tasks it would need to be able to handle would be pretty basic (store files, access USB devices, basic net connectivity), a Mac would cover those basic tasks pretty well while still letting me have one to tinker with.
Will I? Eh, depends on how lazy I’m feeling when/if I ever get around to it. :-P It probably wouldn’t even be a top-end model; something like the 14″ iBook would likely suffice. I’m certainly not about to shell out $4300 for this one…
I still dig Windows machines. In fact, I think I’d still like getting an Athlon mostly for gaming. Don’t get me wrong – I love my Mac. Truth is, though, most games are made for Windows machines. For example, last night I spent three hours trying to find a “Map Pack of the Year” for RTCW. All I found were Windows stuff. There were eight million upgrades for the Windows version, but hardly any for me. Every server I tried getting into told me I had an unpure client and there were invalid .pk3 files referenced. I did all the upgrades there were to do, what now? It’s just frustrating. I ended up deleting the upgrades and just reinstalling the game. Back to basics, I guess.
I do love my laptop, though. Man, it brings a whole new computing experience to you. We have a wireless network set up. Nothing like sititng my ass on the couch while chatting with you. :-) I can even take you with me to pee! Er… ;-)
Yech. Windows. I bought a PS2 to handle whatever gaming needs my Mac can’t handle, so there’s no such thing as an argument supporting Windows machines as far as I’m concerned…
Oh, and as for that link… Some day, some day…