Happy Birthday Macintosh - 12" PowerBook
The Mac was 30 this week. I made the switch a decade ago with this Mac - the Powerbook 12". I bought it for testing but it quickly became my computer of choice. It still works. It's still a great machine. It's also a fantastic design that was built to last. It's battery's dead but everything else works perfectly.
I had used Mac's at Uni and I used to have an Power Mac 9600 at work and later a Mac Mini. But I was never a fan of System 7 or 8. I'd grown up using Commodore Amigas and used Unix machines such as Silicon Graphics and Solaris at Uni in preference to anything else. A computer without proper multitasking was simply a frustrating step back. (I hated switching to Windows 3.11 for work purposes). But with OSX, Apple finally produced computers that worked. With Intel Macs, they finally produced a machine that allowed me to drop my PCs as I could run my software in VMs. Now, other than the PC development tools I require for my job and an old Samsung Netbook I keep around for testing. I'm 100% Mac. I'm now on my 6th Mac. Everyone has been a pleasurable experience.
Happy Birthday Macintosh - 12" PowerBook
The Mac was 30 this week. I made the switch a decade ago with this Mac - the Powerbook 12". I bought it for testing but it quickly became my computer of choice. It still works. It's still a great machine. It's also a fantastic design that was built to last. It's battery's dead but everything else works perfectly.
I had used Mac's at Uni and I used to have an Power Mac 9600 at work and later a Mac Mini. But I was never a fan of System 7 or 8. I'd grown up using Commodore Amigas and used Unix machines such as Silicon Graphics and Solaris at Uni in preference to anything else. A computer without proper multitasking was simply a frustrating step back. (I hated switching to Windows 3.11 for work purposes). But with OSX, Apple finally produced computers that worked. With Intel Macs, they finally produced a machine that allowed me to drop my PCs as I could run my software in VMs. Now, other than the PC development tools I require for my job and an old Samsung Netbook I keep around for testing. I'm 100% Mac. I'm now on my 6th Mac. Everyone has been a pleasurable experience.