for the love of god: get a mac

Posted: October 18, 2006

before i was 17 i knew nothing about computers. in fact i was not interested in them in the slightest. when i left for college at spu in 1998 my best friend’s father put one together for me for $200. it was a pentium 133mhz w/ 32mb ram + a 1.44gb hd. his dad was the biggest computer nerd and i always found it fascinating. about two weeks before i left for school i decided to take the entire thing apart to learn how it worked. naturally i fucked it up and i didn’t want to have to bring it back to my buddies dad so i spent those next 2 weeks fixing it. when i showed up to school and they boasted that they were one of the first universities to have a ‘t1′ with ‘pine’ mail. pine was supposed to ba a sophisticated, easy-to-use email program that was created at the university of washington and even though it was badass back in the day it now sucks: much like any software application. since spu had this t1 everyone was required to have a network interface card to access the internet. the central information systems people were charging $30 to install and configure these beauties - excluding the cost of the nic that is. i read the manual and installed my own and stared to help others only to realize is that no one wanted to deal with the hardware. opening up the computer case was not-cool for a noobie so that is where the central information system boys made the scrilla. i enjoyed working on so many different boxes that i started to charge for my services. however, i low-balled the cis dudes by offering a flat fee of $5. it took me about 30 minutes and i figured this was pretty good quick cash for a college student. plus the ladies liked me because i just saved them 25 bucks and i wasn’t a geek staring them up and down… well i least saved them 25 bucks. to make a long story longer i pretty much failed out of my bio-chem major because i was too busy fucking around with computers.

the story between then + now coming soon

i have been into pc’s until about 18 months ago when i purchased my first mac. it wasn’t long after that i bought my second mac and made a lifelong decision to never promote pc’s again. yes i have a romance with my pc and i still prefer to write music on it. however, the operating system on a mac simply makes more sense. computers have been around long enough for people to have to deal with errors and stupid issues. i tried to load a program on my pc the other day and i got the following error “d3derr_invalidcall”. out of everyone i know i can only think of one person that may be able to understand what that means off the bat. i sure don’t. the point of that is to say that i am in love with the way mac’s operate. yes, i admit they may not be perfect for everything but for those that are just trying to be involved more with what is going on with the web then a mac is the only way to go. i will be posting more substantial reasons why i love mac in the near future on this blog. and soon enough i will be doing a vlog on my macbook pro and why i love it as though it were my child.

all that comes down to this link posted below. mac’s are taking over. something that at one point in my life i would have frowned upon but now fully support. i only have one sticker on my car and it is the apple logo. it is my way of saying “hey i know they cost a little more but save yourself the headaches and get a fucking mac!”.
apple net income soars 27%

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