Pah! Out with the Mac! Aug 02. 055
Hoorah, after having to suffer a month as a ‘new media’ type working on a Apple Mac here at Bite CP I took delivery on Friday of a shiny new Dell PC. Now. I’ll be the first to admit that I kinda fancied the idea of working on a Mac. After all OSX is sooooo sexy, it simply blows XP away.
But, and this is the big one. I think it’s true to say that more than 90% of web users are PC based. So, why on earth would I go to all this effort to make life that much harder for myself. Testing, testing, testing… it’s all about the testing. When you have to deal with the likes of Internet Exploder it’s so much easier to be on a PC. So, it’s back to what I know best… where regardless of the annoyances I feel comfortable and warm.
The Mac is still there for testing on Safari (Not that is misbehaves that much) but beyond that my short lived time as a Mac user has come to and end.
I was a mac user for YEARS (since way back when) – and in some ways, I still am.
But now my primary machine is a home-built AMD setup with XP Pro, and I’m just as happy. It doesn’t crash any more than my macs did, I keep it behind a firewall, check for viruses every so often, and it runs like a peach.
Plus, with Konfabulator now free… I get a lot of the same stuff you can get on a mac.