In my previous blog I mentioned that I am taking the move away from the windows ruled world into the empire that is apple.
I never knew anything about Mac’s until I spent the summer working for nzime where the mention of the words “Windows” or “Microsoft” is a crime punishable by death (well almost). I started work on a Mac Pro running 10.4 (Tiger) but then gave up the processing power to a higher cause (Will the designer) and downgraded to the trusty old G4. Lets face it Dreamweaver isn’t the most resource hungry program on the market.
Spending 8 hours a day in this magical environment of docks and expose showed me a new light, a new way of thinking. The Apple way. Things just seemed easier, System crashes were non existent. Windows has done me good in the past and I wouldn’t be where I am now if it wasn’t for learning how to resolve the mass of Windows errors I encountered throughout the years.
10.4 showed me the new light but this is only the beginning of my experience as Mac 10.5 (Leopard) is due out at the end of this month and it is bringing a whole new host of features to the table. In this list includes: Spaces, Time Machine and a shiny new desktop.
Bring this all together with a brand new iMAC with a 2.8Ghz Intel Core Duo and a few gigs of ram and a 24inch display gives us a nice little party to celebrate the end of a Microsoft era.
Well until I install Windows on parallels to do all the annoying things Microsoft has managed to monopolize.