| Tuesday, March 26, 2002 |
16:54 - Al Fasoldt Likes OS X
http://www.twcny.rr.com/technofile/texts/tec031702.html
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Another highly visible convert:
But Macs have changed. They're still cute, in a modern-art sort of way, but they have a new software engine under the hood. The operating system is tried-and-true Unix with the kind of multitasking that would make an octopus jealous, and the hardware is so fast that some operations get finished before they're started.
Well, almost. I'm getting carried away. But it's all for a good reason. For the first time in years, I'm madly in love with a computer. I bought a Macintosh dual-processor G4 computer -- the one with two 1-gigahertz processors and a built-in DVD burner -- a few weeks ago and haven't stopped raving about it yet. I'm driving my wife crazy, my cat hides when he sees me coming and my parrot is quickly learning how to repeat "This is amazing!" three times without taking a breath.
Boy, this is starting to get monotonous. More and more people are discovering what kind of computing is available to you if you're willing to outlay a couple thou, and they're tripping all over themselves trying to get the word out. Grass-roots adoption is riding high, from the look of it.
This article was even quoted by Apple in its recent-news section. Interesting-- lately I've noticed that Apple is linking to whatever online articles they can find, no matter what the articles' perspective is. In this case, the author is trying desperately-- comically so-- to get you to take him at his word without dismissing it the moment you hear the word "Mac". He pokes at the reputation Apple has for building boxes that are slow or quirky or incapable, and Apple is happily linking to it right out of their own PR pages and thereby tacitly acknowledging their perceived flaws. Pretty gutsy move, if you ask me. Right up there with publicly adopting widely-used fan nicknames like "iApps" and "TiBook", and having copy on their Mac OS X site like "Mac OS X goes out of its way to include everybody (except perhaps aliens from Tau Ceti — they’re mean)."
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