ladies and gentlemen, i am officially turning to the dark side. yesterday, i was informed that i was getting an incredibly substantial raise (including back pay) for reasons unknown to me, but i won't question their motives. i'll simply accept, thank you very much. that evening, my mp3 player died of mysterious causes. the evening before, these fuckers came out, along with iTunes' new movie downloading service.
i took it as a sign.
i'm buying the 80 gig version this weekend. since i don't get home in time to watch television, this means i can watch "prison break" on the way to work (and "pirates of the caribbean"!), and i can finally stop burning my apple media files to CD and ripping them into .wma.
bill gates, you've let me down, but this is what you get for sitting on your ass!
Thursday, September 14, 2006
turning to the dark side
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dark side? welcome to the light
you don't get to be super-smug, however, until you get a mac computer too.
i was a mac person all through high school and college. but then those buggy power macs came out, resulting in bomb screens at very inopportune times. plus, i was having cross platform issues when i would bring work home. and they were damn expensive.
so i switched to cheap, throw-away dells and i haven't looked back since. they're so cheap (less than $800 for a fully tricked-out system) that i don't care if they burp, break, or become obsolete. i have no emotional attachment to them, which is great! so far, they've served their purpose. inexpensive, fast, and efficient computing - with pretty good customer service. i consider myself a fan of throwaway laptops running windows.
and ugh, i hate the OS X mac interface. absolutely. hate. and so, so, bouncy, unnecessarily blingy and slow. hate!
the first crop of ipods had a multitude of issues with battery life, and they were ridiculously expensive. they are still ridiculously expensive, but they've fixed the battery problem. and it looks like apple will be the market leader in digital downloads for a while, so i won't have to worry about the cross-platform / "will i be the only person using this crap?" nonsense i used to worry about when i was a mac person in the 1990s.
(ahh, and i still stand by apple as being the "dark side." they purposely upgrade models every five seconds, often making older models incompatible with new programs/features, forcing apple-enthusiasts to shell out exorbitant amounts of ca$h. their models cost more than window-based models, and their laptop shells break if you breathe on them.)
if my dell (proper) dies and i come across a ridiculous amount of cash in the future (most of what i'm getting today is going into my 8.7% and rising private loans), i'm buying a tricked out alienware. no doubt!
obviously, if you hate the mac os x interface then you probably shouldn't get a mac. i was like you--a mac person who defected to dells. then i went back 2 years ago. at least for my laptop. and i've never regretted it.
i still have a dell desktop, plus the dell i use at work. it's really amazing that in the past 2 years i have never had a single problem with my mac. no crashes, no freeze ups, no bomb screens, nothing. meanwhile both my dells require constant upgrades. both my machines crash now and then, and programs sometimes unexpectedly quit.
the older/incompatable thing is not a problem at all. every mac can run older mac programs. i've installed a game i played on my mac in college 15 years ago and it runs without a problem (OS X has OS 9 built in and it activates automatically to run older programs)
as for cross-platform issues, that can be a problem. i've managed to find a work-around for all of them so far. macs are also more expensive, no doubt about that
and i gotta disagree with you on dell's customer service. they've been a nightmare as far as i am concerned. i've called them probably 6 or 7 times in the past year and each time it's turned into at least a half-day ordeal. i'd rather just pay the extra money for the mac
plus i get to be smug
too late!
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