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| Living the iLife | | Date Created: Jun 13, 2005, 12:23 PM |
If you'd have told me 10 years ago that I would one day never want to travel anywhere without my trusty computer, I'd have thought you were mad. I was from the last generation of people who were born with the thought that computers would one day take over the world, and percieved them to be complex, inpenetrable machines meant for minds that could calculate far many more things than I could see there being reason to.
However, as technology gradually worked its way into our analogue lives, perhaps at first with a CD player, then a DVD player, then a computer, mankind discovered that computers are not just machines. They can be your friend.
I know you think I'm bonkers. Perhaps you're right. But I find that once I became an owner of a laptop, I found that a whole new world of possibilities opened up for me. Instead of having to wait until I got home, I could just open up my trusty Powerbook, work on whatever had crossed my mind, and then get on with things. As computers became more of a central "hub" for our lives (a place to store, work on, and obtain pictures, music, movies, documents, and information) this became more of a reality. In fact, once high speed wireless internet connectivity hit our lives, it became even more easy for us to rely on our "trusty" machines at a moment's notice.
It's pretty obvious I'm a Macintosh enthusiast. For those who don't know, this means I'd rather have and use a machine made by Apple, running the Macintosh OS (System Software), than anything else for a few different reasons: The elegance and facility of the design. The intuitive interface. And the fact that it's a more reliable system than many of the Windows systems I've had to use at work. I prefer "Mac", because it makes things easiest for me. If I have a problem, there is nothing to configure. I just go through the paces and figure it out. If I want to do something with my pictures/movies/writings/data, I do it simply and easily (for the most part). Don't get me wrong - I do not run around advocating Macs for everybody. Some people need their (PC) games. Some people need their PC only databases. But I don't. I once purchased a Windows emulator with the idea that I would need it for something.
Never really used it.
I bought a 3 person liscence for Microsoft Office for the Mac, thinking everyone uses Office, I'll probably need it. Nope. Only really opened it to see what it did. That's it.
Though I spend my days at work in a PC environment, I bring along my portable Mac to be there at my side as a reminder that there IS a better way. I'll give you more examples of that soon. |
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