Joining the rebelling to fight the dark side.. Or, there’s more than alt-tab?

By rebellion I mean mac, and dark side I mean Windows/PC. A few weeks ago I picked up a brand new MacBook from the mac store at twelve oaks mall in Novi, MI. Just entering the place was fun. Thirty or Forty people just messing around, completely O-faced and repeating my former favorite MMORPG acronym WoW! These things are truly amazing machines, and I will never go back to my old ways.

Examples

-Managing documents, using the spaces program I navigate in between my various notes for various classes with a simple hotkey. Instantly, my document switches windows/desktops, up to 16 of them, with a nice small interface in the middle of my screen to help me select which exactly I want to switch to. Which compared to Windows, isn’t a big deal, but its smoother and aesthetically nicer.

-Computer speed, its only 2.1ghz/120gb HD/1gb RAM, but damn, its faster then my old 3ghz 2gb RAM desktop, nothing lags, I can have multiple high memory programs – photoshop, dreamweaver and my mail client, while listening to iTunes radio stream runs perfect.

-OS/Interface, nothing compares. I’ve used Windows since, well, I don’t really remember, but it was the version or two before Windows95 and WoW! Not even Vista can touch this.

-Applications, amazing, simply amazing. Every program I need came preloaded (except my office suite) with their own version of anything I needed. Its search tool nearly memorizes your HD, finds everything instantly, and even picks up keywords and phrases out of documents, so if you can’t remember the filename, it finds it for you. No more searching for folders, all my apps are in one folder. No more useless I’ll never need to see – ya know those .dll and .sys files that clutter up tons of your folders? Or just anything that doesn’t pertain directly to you using the program? Yeah, their not there. I didn’t even use one of those “Mac for Dummies” books. Frankly, I don’t think anyone needs to if you have a stable broadband connection. Everything is self explanatory. Use the finder or spotlight to find things, iWhateveryouneedtodo to do whatever you need to do and the rest you can figure out. I searched for some keyboard shortcuts no in the users manual and thats all I really had trouble, actually not trouble, that is the only thing I couldn’t think of from using a PC. There’s more than alt-tab?-Complaints, nothing to do with it in general. On the web I am pissed there are not many torrents for macs, but thats really it. I paid for the word/excel programs by mac (pages/numbers) and snagged a sweet mouse and I’m happy. Oh wait, there isn’t a free wordpress compatible blogging application, yet. So, I’ll end up paying $17 for a third party program.

-Memories of my PC.

• Video game addiction, good bye (enter montage – game played – my online alias of applicable)
  • Warcraft 1-3
  • All Star Wars games before 2000
  • Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2 : DE_iRoN_K – KDD_KNIGHTMARE – iRoN_K_JCS – iRoN_K – other clans KoAJ, GE, Ji, JE.Jedi Outcast : iRoN_K_JCS
  • Quake 2: KDD_KNIGHTMARE – Fragthis[ZT]
  • Quake 3: Zt Fragthis/Northy
  • Team Fortress Class: DLC~AtomicJim – ZT_Northy -
    ep. Down_to_Business
  • World of Warcraft:
    • Firetree server
      • Jimbotronik (70 Dwarf Marks/Surv, Pure Surv Hunter), Democracy (64 Gnome Fury Warr) < No Gank For You >
    • Thunderlord server
      • Halligan (60 Orc ele shaman)

It’s been fun, maybe someday I’ll be back PS, if DE_Jedi316, Kyle_JCS, Bartolo_JCS or Element_God ever read this, fucking reply or email me. There was no ingame voice or vent back when we played and I’d love to see what you motherfuckers are up to.