OS X FTW!!
// March 23rd, 2007 // No Comments » // Tools
A little history first. When I was about eleven or twelve years old I remember riding to the local library. Sure, I liked the books and videos but what I really remember is the Apple IIe they had. They had a half hour time limit on it, but is there was nobody else waiting they would let me play it forever. Ahh, the memories of a text-based Oragon Trail on a green monochrome screen. Years after that we got a PC and my Windows experience started and I really never looked back. I had gained a pretty good knowledge of Windows OSs by the time I went into college for programming. It wasn’t until 2004 or 2005 that I was introduced to OS X in a class I had called Intro to Macs. I had to take this class for a degree I started for video game design and programming. I was pretty impressed at the time, but knew very little about them still. I was still using Windows, and I still am, but I was reading a lot about Apple and the new OS X.
A new chapter.
So about six months ago a friend from work told me that the old G3 blue and whites would run Tiger. So, I looked on eBay just to see what they were going for and I found one that was pretty cheap. I ended up bidding about $20 for is and it was about $30 shipping. Ha, what a great deal! Anyway the machine came with classic on it, and that is just not what I like in an OS. So it took me almost six months to get out there and get a copy of OS X. Now that I have it installed and running with apps. that are very cool like the one I am using to write this post; ecto I am really, really enjoying it! I am even truly considering making it my main computer and I have not used my windows machine in almost two weeks. That is huge considering that I am using a G3 450 MHZ with 384 MB of RAM vs. a Athlon XP 3200 with a GB of RAM. I think the next machine I buy is going to be an Intel Mac, but it will be a long time before I am getting a new computer.
So that’s my switcher story, I hope you like it.
