tuesday's post

i was once a mac user. i had a mac performa and a powertower pro from power computing, which was a licensed mac clone. a mac clone! i even had a job where i maintained and wrote for a 20,0000 daily reader web site about mac laptops and imacs for a couple of years. i was even part of the local user group scene at one point.

now? my last three home workstations have been windows boxes. my htpc is a windows xp box. and i make fun of the guys at work that own them. what happened? a few things actually. the mac os at the time was horrible for c++ development; no protected memory or preemptive multitasking. imagine learning and working with pointers and pointer-pointers in that environment... one bad pointer and the whole system needed to be rebooted, unlike windows 98se. i don't pc game much anymore but half-life and rainbow six were enough to keep me from booting up the mac box for weeks at a time back then. and i like building my own pc from parts i bought and hand picked from the internet.

will i ever buy a mac again? i doubt it. windows xp is good enough and my next workstation will be a vista box.