Originally written on April 7, 2006 but not published for some reason. Looked decent, so I thought I'd post it. Title altered from original "Yesterday".
Since I had a 4-hour shift at the library yesterday and forgot to take my IHUM (a very hateful post regarding IHUM is due) course reader, I ended up scouring the Internet for nice, long articles for me to gobble up. Slashdot, as many of you know (98.3% of the knowing ones being males) is the perfect place to find such articles, and I found one there. Of course, you'd have to be a real Apple fanatic to read it because it was extremely long and talked about one of Apple's less known and least popular CEOs - Spindler. Now, it's not that Spindler's life history is of any particular interest to me; rather, Apple's is, and that's why this article was so interesting. For those of us who became Apple fans after the "Second Coming of Jobs", we don't know all that much about the 68K to PowerPC transition or the darkest days of Apple back in 1994 and 1995 when they were running in losses and market share was rapidly dropping. And for some really detailed - perhaps too detailed for the faint of heart - descriptions of the general 'state' of Apple during the '85 to '95 period and its relation to the rest of the industry, this article is a must-read.
It also reminded me of just a few years ago when I valiantly tried to pit an iMac (1.0 GHz G4) against an HCL (Pentium 4 2.4 GHz HT) in a Photoshop showdown and was quite disheartened to see how pitifully the iMac lost to its competitor. The fact that I even attempted the comparison is proof that the reality distortion field never really leaves Mac fanatics, even months after a given Macworld Keynote. However, things are different now. Since the new Macs with Intel processors use exactly the same hardware components as their Windows brethren, people will be forced to concentrate on the software instead of whining about the hardware. This is not to say that hardware is not important (the very idea is ludicrous), but rather, once you've standardized the hardware, one can concentrate on the stuff that the user interacts with the most - the operating system and applications.
In addition to all this goodness, since the introduction of Apple's Boot Camp, anyone can now install Windows and Mac OS X on the same machine and compare the two operating systems head-on on the same machine and see which they prefer. If they prefer to stick with Windows after trying out Mac OS X, they can easily erase the Mac partition completely.
Since I had a 4-hour shift at the library yesterday and forgot to take my IHUM (a very hateful post regarding IHUM is due) course reader, I ended up scouring the Internet for nice, long articles for me to gobble up. Slashdot, as many of you know (98.3% of the knowing ones being males) is the perfect place to find such articles, and I found one there. Of course, you'd have to be a real Apple fanatic to read it because it was extremely long and talked about one of Apple's less known and least popular CEOs - Spindler. Now, it's not that Spindler's life history is of any particular interest to me; rather, Apple's is, and that's why this article was so interesting. For those of us who became Apple fans after the "Second Coming of Jobs", we don't know all that much about the 68K to PowerPC transition or the darkest days of Apple back in 1994 and 1995 when they were running in losses and market share was rapidly dropping. And for some really detailed - perhaps too detailed for the faint of heart - descriptions of the general 'state' of Apple during the '85 to '95 period and its relation to the rest of the industry, this article is a must-read.
It also reminded me of just a few years ago when I valiantly tried to pit an iMac (1.0 GHz G4) against an HCL (Pentium 4 2.4 GHz HT) in a Photoshop showdown and was quite disheartened to see how pitifully the iMac lost to its competitor. The fact that I even attempted the comparison is proof that the reality distortion field never really leaves Mac fanatics, even months after a given Macworld Keynote. However, things are different now. Since the new Macs with Intel processors use exactly the same hardware components as their Windows brethren, people will be forced to concentrate on the software instead of whining about the hardware. This is not to say that hardware is not important (the very idea is ludicrous), but rather, once you've standardized the hardware, one can concentrate on the stuff that the user interacts with the most - the operating system and applications.
In addition to all this goodness, since the introduction of Apple's Boot Camp, anyone can now install Windows and Mac OS X on the same machine and compare the two operating systems head-on on the same machine and see which they prefer. If they prefer to stick with Windows after trying out Mac OS X, they can easily erase the Mac partition completely.
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