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Write something cool...write something cool...

The words ring in my head. I was sick yesterday, and any day in which I don't work I don't write on my blog. Seems fair, I guess.

Anyway, for today (and probably the last post of the week, depending on how my cyst-removal surgery goes tomorrow) I want to speak of the Mac.

I'm an old school PC boy. I had an 8088, I drooled over 386s, I knew the different 486 models and their myriad of DXes and SXes and Inbetween-Exes.

Overclocking? Been there, done that. As I matured through the years, so did the PC. From the Pentium to the 2,3, and 4, I also watched as the 3d video card industry swallowed early front runner Monster3d into the gaping mouths of ATI and Nvidia.

But now, I want a Mac. And not just any Mac, a Mac Pro. Fully pimped with a ton of space, RAM, and processor speed. You know how we geeks do. 

Call it blasphemy, but I'm ready. I've been using OSX periodically through my experience at my job and I must say I'm impressed. Built on a NetBSD base, it took quite awhile for Apple to fully get their shit together, but I can assure with 10.4 (and how amazing is 10.5 looking with Time Machine?) it is firing on all cylinders. And the Mac hardcore peeps fought through it all.

Well, once Intel decided to come aboard, so did I. This meant that I could run both Windows XP and OSX, which equals the best of both worlds. (Even if there are currently some issues getting XP running on it)

The machine itself is not modifiable, but who cares? PCs are just too cheap and/or quickly replaced with newer models to really be worried about how one PC is going outclass another and what money you can pour into it.

Besides, any PC I purchase (and by PC I mean Personal Computer, not A Dell) will be maxed out to begin with, so I'm not fretting.

No, the mix of iLife, the Apple Remote (which is so awesome it hurts, you should see how this stuff works), iWork, and the expandability of Mac products...

...there comes a time in each geek's life when he must reassess his Mac vs. PC mantra crap. And at this point, I'm throwing out the whole thing.

I love the simplicity and power of Mac and the tools it offers (iMovie, specifically, in terms of how I've been working with video lately) and when purchasing rolls around at the end of the year, I know what I have my eye on.

For you PC zealots, you just don't know what you're missing. Mac isn't perfect, but it's a hell of a lot more 'perfect' than XP is.

Vista? When that comes out we'll talk. When your RC's (Release Candidates) look like bug-filled betas, then I'm worried. I may actually wait until SP1 before tackling Vista.

But I doubt it.

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