benad's Journal: The "Mac Guy"

You guessed it, from my use of a "mac.com" email address, I'm a "Mac guy". But it can be explained.

First off, I find most Microsoft products to be simply terrible and not worth my money. That alone made me, and my whole family, not considering bying a "Wintel" machine. Simply put, I consider Apple products, both software and hardware, to be of higher quality than the competition's (Microsoft, Dell, Gateway...).

But that didn't stop me from discovering the "joys" of UNIX operating systems. So, obviously, I started discovering the "power of UNIX" with Linux. But, as so many of us "computer geeks" know, you don't let your whole family/girlfriend use Linux alone, much less install software on their own. As a result, I had 3 OS at the same time on our PowerMac G4: Mac OS 9, a "beta" version of Mac OS X and Linux.

Well, as soon as I "discovered" that Mac OS X is a UNIX OS and that most, err all the UNIX software that I use was ported on it, the move was obvious.

It may not be the most popular OS out there (ahem Windows), it may not have the whole GNU philosophy behind (though Apple's motto is quite impressive), but...

Mac OS X 10.2, that I'm using right now, from a pretty active experience in sofware and programming for the past 10 years, is easily, the most easy to use, powerfull (for both end users and programmers), stable and elegant operating system I ever used. Back at Mac OS 9, it was mostly a matter of "taste". Now, it's the matter of using something "way ahead" of the competition.

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I could go on and on about this subject, but it boils down to one thing:
If Macs didn't exist, I wouldn't be using computers today, even less making software engineering my profession.

And to this day Apple is still convincing me.

- Benad