I think I have finally broken the ice with my Mac. It now understands that I am not just testing it, I really have bought it so there is no need to keep trying to impress me
How do I know this you may ask. Because it crashed. Not just any crash but a full system crash. A reboot sorted it, but the point remains that any OS can and will crash. That I present as a fairly firm two-fingered salute to all those who say Macs don’t crash. Wake up and smell the hard-drive.
When I bought my Mac I thought it would be a bit of fun to buy a Mac magazine from a newsagents. Firstly if you ever want proof that Mac’s are very much still a low market penetration product (at least in this country) all you need do it look at the price of their magazines. I have one word for you, extortionate. Well, all the same, I coughed up the cash for it and took it home to read. While flicking through the pages one thing because very clear very quickly. It isn’t any good. I have read article after article that simply praise the god like deity that is Apple for all the great products they produce, yet not one of said articles has really helped me much. It seemed to be a bit of a feel good magazine, something there just to make me feel like I’m a better person for owning one.
I get the feeling Apple have sat back in their little HQ convinced that they have made the worlds best OS, the worlds best hardware and the worlds best software. It seems therefore that they have been blinded by their euphoria.
If ever a group of people could be labelled as the eternal optimists, it would be the Mac users. Myself I like to consider myself a realist that whatever I do, it could always be better (bar 100% on an exam (which I have got before, but never been allowed under the notion that no exam is perfect. To this day I still protest this result of 99%)).
On a more positive note, I do feel like I’m really starting to grips with the OS. It’s starting to feel a bit more like mine as a machine instead of mine as a toy. I still retain that this is a gimmicky OS however. As a more general positive, this is also my first laptop, so whilst typing this on a cool summers evening in the garden I certainly feel that benefit. Wireless internet really was a blessing when it came down from above. Although in the next generation of OS’s I think we will start to see it in a more generally usable format, not just and add-on.
In other non-computer news, today I went for a little wander. A 15 mile sponsored wander with a friend round a local town (it was a circular route). I wasn’t the one that was being sponsored, I did it because he is a friend and I can read a map/tend to his wounds.
Let me assure you, starting a walk at 8am on a day like today, although it didn’t feel like it when I woke, was a really good idea. It was blisteringly hot by 10am and considering it took us until 1pm, the extra time in the cool did help.