I love my Apple iMac
Posted on Friday, November 23rd, 2007 at 3:15 pm
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I don’t know how I could work without an Apple Computer.
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There are many reasons I love my Apple iMac. One of the reasons is that it’s a sleek looking, fast and stable machine that’s remarkably compact and portable (I’m in a coffee shop using mine now). The other reason is the fantastic software that’s available for it. Years ago, the lack of quality software was what turned people off buying an Apple computer. I’ve used Windows for many years and Apple for about 2, and I can honestly say that the quality of software for Apple far surpasses most of the equivalent software for Windows - based machines. I’m not talking about the extra software that you buy, either. The standard of software that comes with your average Apple computer is so much better than what’s bundled with Windows (admittedly, I haven’t had a good look at Vista yet) that there’s really no comparison.
Look at all the windows I have open! Without Expose, I don’t know what I would do. This one feature alone makes the switch to Apple worthwhile in my opinion.
One of the little magical programs that comes with all Apple machines is an application called ‘expose’. This sanity saver allows you to see all your running windows, all at once by ‘zooming’ out. The best part of Expose is that you can activate it by simply moving your mouse to a screen corner (set up by you). For someone like me who regularly has 25 or more windows open at once, this keeps me from going crazy. Switching to that one tiny document in the one program you opened 4 hours ago is as simple as a swipe to the right corner and a click. That’s it. Swipe click. Swipe click. It takes all of 1 second to do.
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6 Comments
On Fri 23rd Nov 07 @ 6:01 pm Derek Hagen said:
“Years ago, the lack of quality software was what turned people off buying an Apple computer.”
Huh?
On Fri 23rd Nov 07 @ 10:42 pm gzavier said:
I believe you mean “Love my Apple MacBook”. The iMac is the pretty slim and space saving desktop from Apple, everything behind the display, and small footprint, but a _desktop_ nonetheless; not exactly a portable computer.
On Sat 24th Nov 07 @ 3:17 am Gerald said:
I use an external mouse (Microsoft Wheel Mouse) and have Expose mapped to the wheel button. It’s the biggest productivity booster since the mouse itself!
On Sat 24th Nov 07 @ 10:58 am admin said:
@Derek:
Sorry, I worded that incorrectly…
What I meant was that the lack of software in general. I wasn’t commenting on the overall quality of mac software. It’s now possible to find an equivalent Mac application for just about anything you can get for Windows. There are even a few killer ‘Mac only’ apps. One that springs to mind is CSS Edit
On Sun 25th Nov 07 @ 4:34 am Brian said:
Don’t kid yourself, Macs have ALWAYS had far better software. And there is far more QUALITY software for Mac.
What PC has always excelled at is very cheap, poorly thought out software, on sale for $5 at walmart.
Practically all major software was out for Mac first, at least in it’s modern incarnation. For example, Microsoft office. The old DOS version was nothing at all like the versions we use today–these all descended from the original Mac version.
Other programs such as Photoshop, even major statistical packages first worked on Mac because early Windoze versions (prior to windows 95 certainly) were limited to 640k memory, which was never the case on a Mac.
And Macs have always just worked far better with no stupidity such as the app quitting automatically when you close the last window. That is just stupid.
And Windows copied so much from mac it’s just ridiculous. But they in all cases only implemented part of it. Even the basic keystrokes behind cut copy paste and undo (itself a Mac concept from the start) were directly copied from Mac, but none of the full functionality (such as the option key adding ’strength’ to each combo) were left out.
Mac has always been way ahead of Windows. Windows gets the job done, but never has worked as well as Mac, and the software is all over the map, not consistent as it is on the Apple platform.
On Tue 27th Nov 07 @ 3:17 am admin said:
“Even the basic keystrokes behind cut copy paste and undo (itself a Mac concept from the start) were directly copied from Mac”
That’s very interesting. I had no idea! Thanks for dropping by.