:: Silver lining ::

Thursday, July 08, 2004

I've always considered myself fairly agnostic when it comes to... well, I guess most things. Preference in computer operating systems is no exception. I've had the chance to play around with almost every OS out there, and have installed many of them on the various x86 boxes I've owned, from DOS to Windows XP to Red Hat Linux to BeOS. I love poking around to see how the different interfaces and underlying components operate.

Now I get to play around with OS X as well, thanks to my shiny new 12" Powerbook.

Any hypothesis that human nature tends towards temperance as a default must contend with an Achilles heel in the form of addiction. Some fill basements with wines, others fill veins with black tar heroin.

Fast cars don't interest me,
I'll take my electric adding machine,
Keep those stamps and haute Gucci,
Just set me up with some 802.11g.

I wish I'd succumbed to a less expensive habit, but once I crack open that sucker in an Alphabet City coffee shop and the girls come a runnin', I'll know it was worth it.

Posted by morland @ 06:51 PM

:: Comments ::

didn't you just get a laptop 2 years ago?

Posted by: ralph on July 8, 2004 07:21 PM

OH YEAH! Did you get one on the Hot Deals page? I was thinking about getting one, but to design on a 12" is too hard.

And OS X kicks Windows' sorry ass.

Posted by: the guy who lived in vail on July 8, 2004 07:59 PM

Yeah, I got a Dell laptop a couple years back, which is why I could afford (in the non-financial sense of the word) to get an alternate one now. I have two bases covered.

I go back and forth on Windows and OS X. The latter is obviously superior is many ways but strangely I prefer some of Windows' UI quirks and aspects of its gui paradigm. I know you're not supposed to say that. It's like telling the cab driver in The Big Lebowski that you hate The Eagles.

Posted by: morland on July 8, 2004 11:51 PM

I think that he said he hates the fucking Eagles, actually.

Posted by: the guy who lived in vail on July 9, 2004 01:28 AM

Notify Vance toute de suite. Perhaps he will return from the dark side.

Posted by: Al on July 11, 2004 05:08 AM

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