Well, I finally broke down and did it. Became an Apple owner, that is.
For years I had inherited whichever PC my wife and kids discarded as they successively got their brains washed by Mr. Jobs. Eventually, I was the sole hold-out believer in the true faith. When my latest box crapped out last week, I decided to bite the bullet and join with the flow. So tomorrow I will accept delivery of a brand-spanking-new Mac Pro. I can’t believe this sucker will have a screen bigger than my old TV!
The guy in the store was astounded at how little interest I had in all of its nifty features. I said, “All I want to do is wordprocess, manage my photos and tunes, and surf the net.” Here’s hoping my in-house IT staff can get it hooked up and keep it running smoothly for me!
I can get Microsoft Office 2009 for MAC for $10 thru work.
What is really going to suck me in is my new car radio. I drive a 62 Corvair, and just installed an amp, new speakers, and a retro-appearing head unit with MP3 capability. My youngest gave me her oldest and smallest (of 3 or more) iPods. I’m going to run a cable and configure one of my car’s 3! ashtrays into an iPod dock!
Bottom of the line desktop Mac? if it doesn’t have a built-in display and is the size of a small lunchbox? it’s a Mac Mini, if it looks like a LCD display with a keyboard plugged in, it’s an iMac, the Mac Pro is the big silver tower with the “cheese grater” front and rear grille and the Pro is the high-end desktop machine
What’s to IT? Plug it in and go. I have owned Macs for many years and have never paid any attention to firewalls, etc and have never had a virus. Macs rarely need IT in my experience.
Wait, wait. You bought a Mac Pro, the high-end desktop? The one that starts at $3000+ before taxes and goes up, up, up? For email and surfing?
I bought a top-of-the-line 27" iMac and tricked it out with all the options except 8 gigs of RAM instead of 16 and that was still cheaper than the base Mac Pro. And I’m running VMWare and Linux and Drupal and Windows 7 and Autocad and the complete Adobe Master Collection and doing my work and developing my website and playing games and storing ALL my music and artwork and writing and pictuires and half my movies and… and… the only way I can bring it to its knees is to open a whack of VMs and have them all going at the same time…
It’s still not clear… the low end of which line. He mentions a large display, but that could be buili in with the iMac or separate with either a Mac Mini or Mac Pro…
Whatever it is, they got a Mac, and that’s all that counts.
I’ve got one of the original Intel iMacs and it shows its age whenever I do something daft like fire up Parallels, which I keep around mainly for oddball websites like our external employee portal that only accepts Internet Explorer. Really have my eye on the 4-core 27" iMac, but a Pro wouldn’t hurt my feelings if they ever update that line.
Jesus fuck! I don’t even have the damn thing yet and I already hate you freaks!
Just checked the website. I bought an iMac with a 21.5" monitor, wireless keyboard and mouse, for $1199. Sorry for confusing the cutesy names, but I never know how to order coffee correctly at Starbucks either.
