“After spending time tinkering around on my Mac mini as a part-time hobbyist, I decided to take the plunge (after over a year of saving) and purchased a Mac Pro as my main production computer,” Scott Kurtz writes for PvPonline.
“Toonhound Studios is now bi-platform. The Mac is on my desk and my PC is set up as a temporary safety-net behind me on the drafting table,” Kurtz writes.
Kurtz writes, “I put this decision off for a long time. There were a lot of reasons not to do it. But then Apple moved over to an intel chipset, finally broke down and added a right click to their mice and just the idea of upgrading to Vista makes me cringe. If I upgrade to Vista, I’m going to have to buy a new machine anyway, why not buy one that can run both platforms?”
MacDailyNews Note: Of course, Macs have had “right-click” via various operating systems for many years, even if they didn’t have an Apple-branded multi-button mouse to go along with it. Users would Control-Click or use a third-party USB mouse to accomplish the task before the advent of Apple’s Mighty Mouse.
Kurtz writes, “So to all my Mac-using readers: I look forward to your forthcoming emails of ‘Gooble-gobble, gooble gobble, one of us! One of us!’ I would also like to hear about your favorite Mac apps and favorite Mac sites. Teach me.”
Full article here.
[UPDATE: 1:59pm EST: Changed “Command-Click” to “Control-Click.” Thanks, coolfactor.]
MacDailyNews Take: Welcome, brother Kurtz! One-by-one they come, first as a trickle, then as a stream, until the Vista-induced Tsunami roars ashore.
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“Every man has a breaking point. You and I have. Kurtz has reached his and obviously he has gone insane. ”
–General Corman, Apocalypse Now
It’s starting to look like Vista is turning out to be the best thing that ever happened to the Mac market share.
i don’t read the comic so i don’t get the acronym…anyone read it and know what H.O.M.O. stands for? and please…spare us the tired fag jokes.
Best Of Both Worlds:
http://images.macrumors.com/im/contest200611/kingsly.html
Honorable Order of Macintosh Operators.
It’s in the full article.
Honorable Order of Macintosh Operators.
It’s in the full article.
Honorable Order of Macintosh Operators.
It’s in the full article.
You just left the land of the sheep and made a succesful leap onto the escalating band wagon of futuristic modern day technology. Burn the bridge and never look back. Your life of pain is over.
CEO of a Windows only software company ditches Microsoft and goes ALL Mac!
The posts in this blog are pulled from a monthly company newsletter. Over the past 18 months or so, this CEO has been making his transition to Mac OSX from Windows (and documenting it).
I was thinking of going back to school to get an education in the IT field. I am looking at A Bachelor’s degree from ITT Tech called Information Systems Security and also an Associate’s Degree called IT- Computer Network Systems. I didn’t see any macs in their labs. I know that the Mac platform is much safer than Windows.
Does anyone know if there are similar training programs that would give me some training on a Mac also?
Is there anyone here in this field that would recommend getting a Bachelor’s degree, or maybe some other type of training, such as certifications instead, or in addition to?
Thanks for your expert opinions.
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H.O.M.O. is an old gag within the PVP world. It really is a wonderful web-comic. Anyone interested should check out Penny-Arcade, they recently made the Mac switch also. One of their rotating guest characters is Chuck, who is the former Mac uber-geek turned ultra cool Mac-guy.
You dont Need a new Computer for Vista. All you need to do is add 128Mb video card or 256Mb video card like Ati Radeon 9550. And put 1Gb ram in the system. It will run fine on old systems but Not older then P4 2.5GHZ cpu. People who are saying you need a new computer. Maybe they dont know how to upgrade (Swap) stuff in Pc. Its easy to upgrade stuff in Pc yourself. But it would be nice to have the latest Intel Core 2 Duo cpu.
Even the New System comes with 512Mb memory. Its not like it comes with 1Gb ram with all the new systems.
So people will still have Problems with new Pc with 512Mb ram if they put vista on it. Unless they put least 1Gb ram. Bye
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/03
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2006/03/03
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/03/03
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2006/03/06
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/03/06
Jatt
You’re right not everyone will need to buy a new computer. But many will. A lot of people are running old cheapo PCs that can run well but if they want to make the Vista jump then they’ll have to overhaul a lot of components, granting that they can or know someone who can, it may be just as cheap for them to buy a low spec PC at WallyWorld.
One PC switcher an hour is all we ask.
PC as a safety back up? For a Mac…
HAHAHAHAH
I must admit, I’ve been a PC user since the days when color didn’t exist. I hated Macs with a passion for years and years. I was the Lead Tester of a major software company for 7 years and refused to test on Macs and forced someone else to do it because I hated them so much. Then I got an iMac for testing and hated it. It was purple, that was the only good thing about it. I got an eMac for testing and hated it because you can’t turn the freakin’ monitor off without turning off the computer. That’s a horrible design IMO. Then I got a Mac Mini…with OS X 10.4 and I was hooked. Other than the fact that iTunes can’t play a video worth a crap without stuttering and dropping all sorts of frames, but every other video player, including QuickTime play the same videos perfectly outside of iTunes, I’ve decided to get a MBP for my next computer instead of a PC.
Oh, and the Beta of Vista is a joke. It’s like the AOL of OSes now. Seriously, it shouldn’t take 2.5GB for an operating system and I don’t need, nor want my operating system to animate all over the place. Run my programs, that’s it. OS X rocks. I have been converted…
Undertrader
http://www.undertrader.com
Hey, it’s a good idea to have a PC as a backup. Otherwise, the boss (or clients, customers, whatever) will expect the poor guy to be productive 24/7. How else will he justify not doing real work for extended stretches if he doesn’t have a PC to contend with?
what the heck, hey u author sir scott kurtz…no pun there.
Just asking u: u buying a pc for work of just to satisfy ur craving?
cos vista ain’t that bad y’know…its a applications-centered system…security we’ll wait and see…but seriously, vista aint bad as MS flamers put it thro.
Dun believe, check this out:
http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=254997
I strongly give my support for jim allchin to take over the CEO position of MS from that that “steve ballmer” who says vista vista vista WITHOUT showing us how VISTA can perform on his laptop.
Ballmer is about talk and talk and talk
hey, jim is about the entire walk. He should be in apple’s team if he ever retires….please steve jobs, really jim allchin is a guy who either should be promoted to CEO position or be transported to Apple alongside with his team of vista writers who dedicated themselves with passion not for money but for software…ok for some money but alottof passion for vista to perform efficiently.
That being said, sir scott kurtz, stop being a flameboy and start thinking about the positives and negatives about things when u post info on your article.
“One PC switcher an hour is all we ask.”
Or 24/day, or 8630/year? or to put it another way, about as many switchers in as year as Microsoft sells copies of Windows per hour? That’ll make a dent.