Two weeks ago I did some thing which I didn’t think I’ll ever do. I’d always thought Apple/Mac were worse than Microsoft because they were not open enough. I thought, that if they were open, there would have been atleast 10 times more Apple users as there are today. Since I wasn’t ready to drop $$$ dollars down the drain to buy a sleek little Mac laptop I never got around actually check it out.
Well, two weeks back after I lost a laptop in a disaster, I made a choice to switch based on few logical reasoning
- I still believe in open source
- Microsoft is worse than Linux
- But Linux is not fully supported on laptops I like
- I also have problem getting support because there are 2000 different distributions out there now
- I’ve grown out of compiling/optimizing Linux kernel every day
- I need access to realworld office application which my organization uses (MS Office, PGP, Checkpoint VPN
- I know Mac can do most of these…
- OS X has a BSD backend
- Should be fun hacking something new for a change
- powerbooks look sexy…
- And I badly needed a sleek very mobile 12inch laptop which would cost me big bucks anyway… so might as well pay for a better designed one instead of going with cheaper dell alternative which seems to break everyone and then