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- Jan 28, 2007
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- Location
- Virginia
- Your Mac's Specs
- iBook G4, 1.5GB RAM, 1.42Ghz, 14"
I have decided that my next computer will be a PC. I have heard it said that Macs aren't for everyone, and I can believe it. My iBook was ok on the honeymoon, but after the new wore off it was just another computer, one that has a few cool features and MANY, MANY annoying ones. I have came the the state of mind that Macs are just toys, no real work can be done because there is always something going wrong. A bouncing icon catches one's eye, a strange noise comes out of no where, I hit the wrong function key and all of humanity scatters and my work is lost or thrown into the most annoying thing on any computer I have ever used...Expose. Yes, I said it, Expose. I'll say it again, Expose. It is, by FAR, the most annoying and baffling thing on Mac. I don't mean I'm confused by it, I'm confused by the thought that it is easier than simply clicking a tab in a taskbar.
Physically, the iBook is decent, pretty. But my "n" key came off a while back, that was frustrating, and my fan practically stays on when all I do is listen to iTunes, go to my few forums, and talk on iChat. I KNOW it doesn't take that much of a processor to do those three things. Well, I guess I'm asking too much of my G4, because it throws a fit. Gets ungodly slow, Applications randomly quit, I have some voice thing that I have to keep minimized that I cannot get rid of and I don't even know where it came from. Safari is a great browser, when it works. When it doesn't it's worse than sticking my fingers in a meat grinder. The scrolling is horrid, jerky, it takes about 15 seconds of the pinwheel thing to scroll with Safari. The sad thing is, I have "smooth scrolling" turned on. Smooth? I think not.
The commercials are lies for Apple, things aren't effortless, especially when you have to deal with things like Expose, rough scrolling, fans, jerky minimization, and repairing permissions every day in order to be tolerable. I thought I didn't like Vista when I tried it out in the store, well, it just keeps looking better and better as I stare into the OS of Mac 10.4.8.
Here's to my Apple: It was real....the first week when you worked and were still cool. Now I realize that you're just a toy, nothing more.
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Physically, the iBook is decent, pretty. But my "n" key came off a while back, that was frustrating, and my fan practically stays on when all I do is listen to iTunes, go to my few forums, and talk on iChat. I KNOW it doesn't take that much of a processor to do those three things. Well, I guess I'm asking too much of my G4, because it throws a fit. Gets ungodly slow, Applications randomly quit, I have some voice thing that I have to keep minimized that I cannot get rid of and I don't even know where it came from. Safari is a great browser, when it works. When it doesn't it's worse than sticking my fingers in a meat grinder. The scrolling is horrid, jerky, it takes about 15 seconds of the pinwheel thing to scroll with Safari. The sad thing is, I have "smooth scrolling" turned on. Smooth? I think not.
The commercials are lies for Apple, things aren't effortless, especially when you have to deal with things like Expose, rough scrolling, fans, jerky minimization, and repairing permissions every day in order to be tolerable. I thought I didn't like Vista when I tried it out in the store, well, it just keeps looking better and better as I stare into the OS of Mac 10.4.8.
Here's to my Apple: It was real....the first week when you worked and were still cool. Now I realize that you're just a toy, nothing more.
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