TiBook And OS X Subverts InfoWorld Writer
TiBook And OS X Subverts InfoWorld Writer
by , 4:15 PM EST, November 21st, 2002
Apple's Switch ads are a success, but there are some who view them with indifference, believing that their own technical prowess makes them immune to the benefits of owning a Mac. When Tom Yager, a writer for InfoWorld, got an assignment that required him to use a TiBook he was neither anxious nor optimistic, as he explains in an article he wrote for InfoWorld titled Switching by choice:
To research InfoWorld's recent Special Report: Apple Unpeeled, I voluntarily shelved my IBM ThinkPad and carried a PowerBook G4 instead (See "Too big for its niches" ). I wasn't trying to emulate the switch experience. Rather, I was looking for the quickest way to reconnect with a platform I hadn't used in years. A long business trip would give me plenty of time to immerse myself in Mac OS X.
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During the two-week trip, I didn't miss my ThinkPad. My hotel had high-speed Internet, so I did some serious downloading. I pulled in Fink, an automated tool that seeks out Mac OS X-specific editions of Unix utilities and applications. I asked Fink to get X Window, which Mac OS X is inexplicably lacking. Fink had to compile it, and I found the 800MHz PowerBook G4's performance equal to the task. I was able to work in the foreground without a marked decrease in responsiveness. I also brought in Microsoft's Terminal Server client to connect to a lab server and was amazed by its speed.
Read Mr. Yager's full account of his Switch experience at the InforWorld Web site.
The Mac Observer Spin:
Resistance is futile. Normally that pronouncement of impeding doom is attributed to heavy-handed actions taken by Microsoft on some unsuspecting soul, but in this case you can take the phrase at face value. Try as you might, once you've had an opportunity to really use a Mac chances are you'll want to keep using it, as Mr. Yager found out. Perhaps a more appropriate cliche would be: once you go Mac you never go back.Warning: include(/usr/local/etc/httpd/sites/macobserver.com/htdocs/forums/extension.inc) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/bbm/macobserver.com/ee2/www/htdocs/comments/comments.php on line 108
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