Six years ago I turned my back on Windows Me (Microsoft’s worst product release ever) and dived head-first into Macintosh world and I bought my first Apple, a 12" PowerBook. It had an 876Mhz Motorola processor and a 40 GB hard drive. Great machine.
Since 2002, I’ve owned a 12 inch PowerBook, a white MacBook, a MacBook Air, and now a screaming fast MacBook Pro — not the new build.
For years I’ve enjoyed a stable, easy-to-use OS that worked like a dream. Unfortunately I had to install Windows XP on my Mac and I almost cried. If finding Apple was seeing the light; installing Windows was like a dog returning to its vomit. Catch my drift?
The only redeeming factor of working on XP was Google Chrome. Google released their new browser a couple weeks ago and forgot to develop a Mac build. Chrome is cool. Because of all the great extensions, Firefox is still my browser of choice. If you’re still on IE, God help you…
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1. I am jealous of your Mac upgrades. When I was in college, I worked on iMacs and eMacs (desktops)…after graduation, I bought my white iBook…which they definitely stopped making about a month after I bought it. Four years later and it’s still working…but definitely not as great as it used to.
2. I’m with ya on the Google Chrome…it’s pretty cool, but still not as efficient as Firefox.
I had to install Windows on my Pro for TWO websites… Quickbooks Online & ADP Payroll. Unfortunately, they’re vital to my employment. I was so ashamed… and I still feel dirty every time I run Parallels. It doesn’t help that it freezes up at least once a day. Cure you, Bill Gates!!
Only problem with Google is that they track your every movement (see google-analytics.com or install NoScript in your firefox browser) – worse than the government b/c they don’t answer to the people come election time. Who knows what kind of craziness goes on in the back corners of chrome. Oh yea, and I won’t be the first in line for my google cell phone, upload my medical records, or store all of my documents/spreadsheets on their servers.
So with all that said, Windows is not worth googlechrome. Put OS X back on there or give both huge companies (MS and Apple) the middle finger and install linux (all this from a guy who’s seriously considering buy a new macbook pro
Also, I do thank you for putting google-analytics on your website – you eyein me boy???