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I guess I never blogged about it. Did I? Well I bought a new MacBook this Feb. The new one. The specs are 2 GHZ Core 2 duo, 2 GB RAM, nVidia GeForce 9400M and DVD RW. Indian price was a bit on the higher side compared to other notebooks of similar configuration. However lets not forget its a Mac. The a$$hole at the local Imagine shop suggested installing Windows Vista and MS office. I dont understand why would anyone want to use Microsoft on a Mac. Microsoft is the only reason people switch form all other hardware vendors to Apple. The guy, without my permission was trying to install Microsoft office (Mac version). I had to explain him that Microsoft was the very reason I was buying this expensive beauty instead of a Dell or HP. Well you might suggest using OpenSource or in other words Linux as an alternative. But lets be honest how many people find proper drivers to use all the hardware properly on Linux. I wasa big fan of Lnux. I’m still a fan of the Tux. However for someone who is looking for a little Moive, browsing and occaisional Blogging its not worth the trouble. So here I’m writting this post on my MacBook, with a smile. 
Talks about the recession have spread all over the world. The media is going frenzy every single day over the same issue. Everyday I read news about another country going into recession. The US and the UK seem to be the worst hit. And of course as always the effects are being felt here in India too. People who’re employed also seem to be cutting down on spending, while the govts in the developed countries are encouraging people to spend more amid job cuts. In fact, recently when I was going to buy a new MacBook, I called up one my best friends who’d returned from the US to inquire about the price of the notebook. However, I was astonished by his reaction to the fact that I was buying a new MacBook when there are people who don’t have enough to eat. He was just back from California which probably has been one of the worst hit by the recession with photos of closed down shops printed on every news paper. India probably is the only country where the effect of the recession has not been so severe. Yes I know about these IT companies firing employees showing absurd reasons. Some other industries too are busy shedding some “Fat”. In fact, I being employed in this so called Indian Information Technology industry, can feel the wave of nervousness around the office corridors, while the companies are still making tons of profit and also declaring them quite proudly in their quarterly reports. Sometimes I just wonder about things happening around me and force myself to the conclusion that probably my brain is not yet properly equipped to understand all the dynamics of this complex world. May be I don’t want to. I still have fond memories of the Birmingham beer festival last year, when I was sipping ale lazily. In fact, as I write this blog I’m wearing the CAMRA t shirt I bought, perched lazily on my cozy office chair on a Friday afternoon. I guess its doing the job of providing me with inspiration, to follow my dream and open a bar of my own, where I can serve beer to people over rock music and may be, crack a joke or two..
I’m floored!! Its amazing.. Had never browsed the Net before using a hand held device over Wi-Fi. Came back form office few hours ago and thought of browsing the Net using our recently configured Wi-Fi access point. My shitty Compaq laptop gave up. It wouldn’t detect the network itself my roomie’s was browsing quite happily using his HP. Thats when I found the his iPod Touch lying on the bed. It instantly caught my eye. Wi-Fi on an iPod. Yippie.. There were no hiccups at all. It detected all the available Wi-Fi networks around and quite comfortably connected me to the Internet. Browsing is a piece of cake with this device. Although writing emails or posts could be a difficult task due to the touch interface. However I could browse almost any site using it. Including WordPress. I could read and write posts too. In fact I wrote one post, but something got screwed up while posting it. Anyway the Compaq is working fine after a few configuration change so writing the post using it. I wish I had posted this using the Touch. The screen has a brilliant display. Watching Youtube and following the Maps were a real pleasure to the eye. I can’t help it anymore. I’m ordering one for myself before I get a Macbook.
This is in reference to the article (Escape – “Apple Whines”) in Digit. For your information Digit is a, or it describes itself as a technology magazine. The article (“Apple Whines”) published in Digit, describes Microsoft Microsoft as a very innovative company which cares a lot for its users. And that’s the reason Microsoft has been adding new features(or should I say BUGS) in every software it’s been releasing. Well that seems ridiculous… Because the whole world knows that, the only thing known to Microsoft is Copy-n-Paste. Since its inception it has done nothing but copying other innovative companies like Apple. It relies on its sheer $ power to do that. Everyone knows it. And this f**king Indian magazine seems to be on Microsoft’s payroll! One can cite many examples. IBM developed HPFS for its OS/2, Microsoft copied it to make NTFS for its Windows NT. Apple developed GUI, Microsoft copied it to make the infamous Windows OS. Sony developed the Play Station, and what Microsoft did is renamed it to XBOX. And these days I can hear some rumours about Microsoft making an mp3 player. SIGH!!!!! Obviously copied from the iconic iPod. Still this technology magazine is talking about innovations made by Microsoft… Yeah, they are releasing Vista(Longhorn) somewhere around 2007 with loads of features. Again a botched up copy of Mac OS x Tiger. This article also talks about the Mighty Mouse having a single button, while the PC mouse has 2 keys and a scroll whell!! SO WHAT??? After-all “The back of a Mac looks better than the front of a PC!!”.
Before everything else I must tell u that I am not a owner of any macintosh computer or the iconic iPod. Due to simple reason that I have never been able to afford them. But still I am fortunate enough to see them from a very close distance (physically) at an IT expo, as macs are quite rare in india. And I have very weird habbit of browsing through apple related sites like MacZealots.com, MacMall.com, MacRumor.com etc.. Needless to say I am self procalimed fan of apple products and of course Mr. Steve Jobs.
Few months ago apple made a transition from the IBM PowerPC architecture to the Intel X86 for its desktops and notebooks. What followed is it introduced a whole range of intel based Macs like iMac, MacMini, MacBook Pro and more recently the MacBook. I didn’t have much clue about what it means to apple users, but what I thought was that, It would spell doom to Apple, by abandoning suddenly its already very popular product line. But I think I was wrong, as I can see it generating a lot excitement among many more people. The cyber world is abuzz with talks about the new Intel based Macs. But what Bothes me is that most of this excitement is coming from the possibility of running MacOS X and Windows in a dual boot environment. I don’t find a reason why anyone would like to use a crippled OS like windows instead of MacOS Tiger. Most people from the windows world switch to Mac to have a better computing experience, better security, better stability with UNIX at its heart, better interface and of course due to the cool factor. But running Windows even on a mac will still expose them to the same risk of data loss, Viruses, spyware, malware, ****wares as on a PC. And on top of that Apple itself is providing a tool called BootCamp to enable dual booting. Must have gone crazy. I have PC at home. A cheap chinese or some taiwanese made fucking PC. It runs a pirated copy of windows 2000 and Linux. And honestly speaking, I rarely use windows. And I have no problem except for my modem (same f**cking chinese) which still not detected by by linux. But what’s the logic behind running Windows on a Mac!!! Another thing is that many people are comparing the prices of Macs to the likes of Del, Hp and Lenovo. They claim that for same price other players are offering notebooks with betterspecs. Phew!! U don’t buy a Mac beacause of its specs. U buy it because u want it. But hey.. why am I writting all this stuff. I don’t even own a Mac. It is painfull that I dont have Mac. But Someday with some money in hand I hope to buy a Mac……..
