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Guilty as charged. (Score:1)
Macs were for people who didn't know better, or so I thought. I watched the launch of OSX and thought it was pretty. I read buzzwords like Mach and Darwin and references to NeXT and I was happily puzzled. I used a NeXT slab in college in a Calculus class to run Mathematica, so I knew what it could do.
But it wasn't until I started reading stories on places like slashdot (around the time of the 10.1 release) about people who were "Switching" before Apple ever thought to make that a buzzword. Then, a friend of mine, the last person I'd ever expect to do so, bought a TiBook.
I'm lucky to live in a town with an Apple store. So I sauntered in and played with one of the new iMacs. I was absolutely blown away by the interface. So I dug more. It's unix? I had just left Windows for a laptop running Gentoo Linux and KDE3, but wasn't satisfied. I started finding reasons to find places that sold Macs so I could play. I was hooked. I ended up with an iBook 700 14" with a combo drive.
Quite simply, this is the most useful computer I've ever used, bar none. I'll admit, I feel guilty about the shit that people like me gave original mac users. I still think MacOS 9 and before has nothing to offer me, but I continue to be astounded by X.
Guys like you are still needed, however. You've already answered two big questions for me, and I'm sure that there will be more.
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