Posts Tagged ‘mac’
Martin Welén » Mac eller inte?
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
April 22nd 2009
Just nu undrar min vän Martin om han ska haMac eller inte?.
Får jag föreslå den tredje vägen? Nya Ubuntu kommer imorgon.
Mac vs. PC
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
September 22nd 2008
One question I keep getting as a designer is:
“Why do you use Windows and not Mac OS X?”
I will tell you why:
Back in the day my first computer ever was a Commodore 64, later upgraded to Amiga 500. Beautiful computers and brilliant at what they were designed for: games. Amiga Workbench was also good for simple word processing and video effects, but I digress.
I played around with my dads Abc80, and his Vicor with Windows 3.11, but I honest to god did not start using computers daily until 1992 when I started college and was put in front of a Apple Mac II.
I loved macintosh, because the OS was so much more advanced than Windows those days. Not to mention the DTP software we used (Pagemaker, Freehand and Photoshop 2). Beat the heck out of Windows Paint for sure.
When I finished school Windows 95 had come out, and I bought it, mostly for games and surfing the internet. I was a Mac-taliban, suffering from the self rightious attitude that plagues so many Mac users.
With Windows 98, suddenly you could get working copies of Photoshop and later Pagemaker, which – of course did not work as well as on Macintosh.
Around the same time, Mac OS 9 came out and made my life a living hell. It was the worst OS I had used from Macintosh, caused constant issues with fonts and god knows what. I saw the bomb as my personal adversary. The first version of Mac OS X was pure hell as most software from Adobe had to be run in a virtual environment, and usually crashing.
As I was freelancing I started working more and more on my PC until finally I moved away from advertising to New Media. Photoshop worked just as well on PC as on Mac, and so did all other software too. Frankly I felt like I had more control with a Windows machine.
I also started to really see my fellow designers in a new light. Most of them actually got aggressive when I voiced opinion that Windows was a perfectly good platform (not to mention cheaper). They actually showed fanatical tendencies, refusing to adher to that if your users are 99% Windows users, they will not have “Geneva” on their system – just as an example. Even refusing to set their monitors to 96dpi to mimic window displays was against their beliefs.
I felt like I had left a sect and the members still in there could not tolerate any heretics.
I don’t mind Mac OS – to me it is just a tool – not a way of life.
I just refuse to get one for the same reasons as I do not join a christian church – I like the message and the format, but I cannot stand being seen as one of the braindead users who believe every little thing is made of gold and that the message spewed out is the word of God.
So until then I declare a war on all terrorists from both camps, be they Windows fascists, Mac Talibans or Penguin huggers - I will run dual boot with Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.10.
