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I remember the ridiculous amount of time spent in acquiring esoteric knowledge, from tons of magazines, about processing power and hard disks,when I had to buy my first “serious” computer . Then friends of mine who already were in computer music or had professional recording studios told me:” intel/windows based system crack and break at any given occasions making you go berserk , you should use an apple/mac computer”I did .I’m happy I did even if I’m not one of those mac fedayn.once umberto eco wrote an essay on the different worldview expressed by ms-dos ( a protestant os according to him ) and mac-os (a catholic one) . is choosing a technology like making a statement? Is it only a question of pro-cons valuation or is there something more involved? Ps a final question for mac users only : will the nice ives design , the jobs’ metaphors on computer ‘s future uses ,macos X be enough to make apple remain the great brand we know ?

― francesco, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bollock to Apple as a brand. They're named after a boring fruit that the Beatles had thought of first. Also, my mac crashes almost every day, so sod that aspect of it too.

I don't like making statements with my brand choices. It's my one concession to the No Logo ethic.

― Nick, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've elsewhere posited the Mac OS as my only homeland and lebensraum in an otherwise nomadic and unrooted existence (which is a bit ironic, seeing as it's a classic piece of corporate global America).

My brief experience of MacOS X has been unsatisfactory, probably because my copy is Japanese. But it also seems slow, and to have replaced a logical interface with big idiot-proof graphic gizmos like the ballooning dock with its pretty 'stamp collector' graphics. But then again, what I'm calling 'logical' may just be whatever I'm used to.

I think the pleasures of the Mac are textural, sensual ones. Macs appeal to the visually-literate and aesthetically fussy, whereas PCs are for people who think style and design matter less than price (and being on the same page as 95% of the rest of the world). I liked Eco's description of Macs as Catholic and PCs as Protestant. PCs are puritan- capitalist the same way it's puritan-capitalist to gobble down a sandwich instead of taking your time over lunch. PCs are about necessity, Macs are about pleasure. Many people who have PCs at work have Macs at home.

One reason my website is so huge and interesting (I hope) is that I love to potter about on my Mac. Today I was editing sound files for a recording project using an excellent shareware program called Felt Tip Sound Studio. Work and play on the Mac are pretty much the same thing.

― Momus, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am McFedayeen mainly for Momus-type design fascist reasons. Tho as I gaze at the geeko-system which surrounds my screen (rubber cobra, rubber gecko w. extended tongue w.small rubber fly on tongue, metal treble clef, S.American wooden good-luck figurine now missing nose and one ear and blur feather = hair, small model of tintin's destination moon rocket), I notice it is disgustingly dusty and filthy. Can plastic go rusty? Mine is... Or is that unremoved coffee spurtage from reading Hanle y et al?

― mark s, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mac Mac Mac. First computer in 1987 = Mac, and no turning back. At work, I'm one of those people Momus described, where the PC is all that's there, so I fiddle with it as needed. But at home, no contest - - a lurvly G4 Cube these days. Whoever has the Mac that's always crashing is most unfortunate, that's pretty damn rare in my experience.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Two things cause crashes: incorrect memory config, on a sizeable application, and putting 800k floppies into the fucking external port that Wozniak decreed = all we will evah need now... I have to email stuff i'm working TO work (not from, as email at home = too primitive to open most attachments), which means — some early tired mornings —I email em instead to addys merely NEARBY my work no. Cause of endless hilarity among my friends, of course.

But I believe some of the laptops are wrongly configured and/or wired, and freeze up a lot, also. You shd look into getting a straight replacement.

― mark s, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mac design and ports are similar to those post-human flesh machines in Existenz, + osx is complete liquid design. if you don't know what you're doing on a Mac, it's similar to not knowing how to swim (you thrash and unnecc. close pgms, where on PC's you simply kill the processes)...

― BB, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have the new iBOOK. If I could, I would take it to bed with me.

― nathalie, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's like plushie love, you just need an SPA.

― Dave M., Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have the new iBOOK. If I could, I would take it to bed with me.

I have the new iBook too. I just put a Bjork Vespertine sticker on the back. The screen is a million times better than the old iBook screens, and it's a lot lighter. I do take mine to bed with me, and make it read articles to me (Bruce, High Quality voice) from the New York and London Reviews of Books. Am asleep long before it is.

― Momus, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I gotta have one too . I find it nicer than the old one but I'll wait for the next expo . the limit of the entry level products is the dimension of the screen

― francesco, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

momus-I've downloaded the editing software. it's very simple & nice . isn't it a bit limited if confronted with usual spark and peak ?

― francesco, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

that should have been "if compared to usual" ...my early morning english

― f, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When we went computer shopping i wanted a Mac. I like its graphics. I like its ease. Its Plastic . Its Fantastic. And they come in pink. David wanted a PC. We do know have a PC but it is sleek and black. It looks like HAL.

― anthony, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As if I could afford any sort of Mac. As if I would buy one even if I could!

― Kris, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five months pass...

I do take my iBook (dual USB) to bed with me. Airport wireless is a wonderful thing.

― Nuvector, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Mac user interface is so much more pleasing than a PC. The RAM- scanning noise my iMac makes is so gentle that someone I was talking to on the phone last night thought my iMac's burbling was the sound of me taking a bath.

Little things like this are why I put up with its habit of crashing on startup 90% of the time. Come to think of it, we're not that different that way.

― felicity, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

macs rock. just make sure you have 2X the ram apple recommends and they run sweet. X 10.1 is running really well for me, just waiting for photoshop so i can use it daily. Don't like that stupid love heart favorites icon tho.

― mr smythe, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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