Is It A Cold Day In Hell?

So, I have done something I never thought would happen. It's as if, by my own actions, I have single handedly, indefinitely, destroyed my credibility as a mac-bashing hater PC user. I've been, traditionally, I'm the John Hodgman of the PC world.

It's not that I bring the hate on Apple products, I own an iPod Nano. However, I've never been a fan of the Mac operating systems dating before OSX. I know OSX was a major change and is built off a foundation of BSD -  an operating system I have great respect for and learned a lot of low level kernel development on (as a test case).

BSD, like Linux, is almost more geeky than that of Microsoft Windows. Where Microsoft went towards easy, Mac seems to have gone towards low level mixed with easy. Sure, it's still not going to play any of your cool games.

Anyway, enough back story. I had an Acer tablet laptop that, literally, broke in half when I closed the monitor one day - very cheesy. I've not been impressed with this Acer since I typed all the letters off the keys three months after buying it. It's so cheap. So I was in the market to buy a new laptop, I checked out two systems: a Dell and a Mac Book Pro.

The Dell, with the 17" core-2 duo was more money than the Apple and I KNOW it would have tons of craplets installed that would require uninstalling. The Mac Book Pro has a DVD Burner (dual layer), 2.33Ghz core-2 duo Intel chip, 17" wide screen monitor, 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard disk. The only downfall: it was a mac. I was afraid.

Well, I'm blogging on my new Mac Book Pro. Sure, it cost me an arm and a leg but I wanted a laptop that would stand the test of time (read: roughly 4 years) before needing to be upgraded. This one is pretty sweet, and I'm learning OSX quickly. I also spend a good deal of time in the shell accessing information using my traditional Linux methods - very cool.

As for "what will you do to play games?" I will use my AMD 3.2Ghz PC sitting on my desk. This one will be used for Mixing down my podcast, playing music, blogging, php proramming and web design. Seems like a good fit for the job.

Anyway, that's my story. I'd like to thank, BrokenDesign for hooking me up with a Mac Book Pro and being on IM to answer my n00b questions. My wife is in line for a laptop upgrade and this will be her next purchase as well.

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