Dealing with Apple's too stressful for me. I think I'm just going to not give a @#$% about what computer I'm using from now on.
MacBook (as opposed to iBook)? Come on. Changing from Powerbook to MacBook Pro was awful. This is just atrocious. For several reasons. And don't bitch about me bringing this up again, or I'll cut off your nose and fry it.
But I'm not going to mention my other reasons for being upset. In general, though, I'm wondering if there is a plan. It was sage of Apple to have been planning the Intel transition for five years, but did they have to propagandize and then counter-propagandize at every single turn, losing credibility at every turn? PPC is better -- no, now Intel is. Microsoft is Satan -- but now, you can install it next to OS X. Integrated graphics are horrible -- I mean, in the next boxes.
I'm not taking sides here -- I invested in a top-of-the-line Mactel, I support virtualization and can tolerate dual-booting, and I'm not a gamer and know ****-all about graphic cards. I'm just saying that I feel like the ship is being captained by a madman. As iGary might say, I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.
I love my iMac more than any computer I've ever had, put together. That may not sound like much, but I was crazy about my NeXTStation, my SGI Indy, even my Atari Mega ST 2, my SGI Indigos, my Sun SS10's and SS20's and my Ultra 10's (when they worked). I've had at last count over 45 computers in my life, about 7-8 iirc were Intel boxes. So this is really saying something. I love this machine.
And I'm not bitching simply because I don't like the direction of Apple's hardware or policy. I'm bitching because I don't see any promising direction at all. Sure, we will continue to use Apples, because we're insane (?).... but who would switch?
Maybe I lack Steve's vision. Maybe you all can enlighten me. Give me Steve's vision.
Because what I do have right now is a vision of Steve Jobs. I see him putting Twiggy drives in the Lisa, MO drives in the NeXT Cube, repainting an entire factory dozens of times, and so on.
Someone reassure me.
MacBook (as opposed to iBook)? Come on. Changing from Powerbook to MacBook Pro was awful. This is just atrocious. For several reasons. And don't bitch about me bringing this up again, or I'll cut off your nose and fry it.
But I'm not going to mention my other reasons for being upset. In general, though, I'm wondering if there is a plan. It was sage of Apple to have been planning the Intel transition for five years, but did they have to propagandize and then counter-propagandize at every single turn, losing credibility at every turn? PPC is better -- no, now Intel is. Microsoft is Satan -- but now, you can install it next to OS X. Integrated graphics are horrible -- I mean, in the next boxes.
I'm not taking sides here -- I invested in a top-of-the-line Mactel, I support virtualization and can tolerate dual-booting, and I'm not a gamer and know ****-all about graphic cards. I'm just saying that I feel like the ship is being captained by a madman. As iGary might say, I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.
I love my iMac more than any computer I've ever had, put together. That may not sound like much, but I was crazy about my NeXTStation, my SGI Indy, even my Atari Mega ST 2, my SGI Indigos, my Sun SS10's and SS20's and my Ultra 10's (when they worked). I've had at last count over 45 computers in my life, about 7-8 iirc were Intel boxes. So this is really saying something. I love this machine.
And I'm not bitching simply because I don't like the direction of Apple's hardware or policy. I'm bitching because I don't see any promising direction at all. Sure, we will continue to use Apples, because we're insane (?).... but who would switch?
Maybe I lack Steve's vision. Maybe you all can enlighten me. Give me Steve's vision.
Because what I do have right now is a vision of Steve Jobs. I see him putting Twiggy drives in the Lisa, MO drives in the NeXT Cube, repainting an entire factory dozens of times, and so on.
Someone reassure me.
The only OS superior to OS X that I could imagine would be a total PalmOS running on my iMac. Point and click. A little hard to have dangerous viruses when every smidgen of the OS is in firmware. 
