March and still no news, for a quad MacBook Pro. Even worst, the news are read on daily basis gets clearer that Apple could drop NVIDIA, an go with Arrandale CPU. I still have not Mac so no further development is possible for now.
Mac is like an addiction, and for the first time I feal like I have surpassed my fear of using another OS. I got used to my new Linux box running debian and gnome. I made sure to have some eyecandy thanks to compiz and emerald, and I surely can get my work done without a Mac. If I have come so far , shall I still wait for the next Quadcore MacBook?
Like any addiction(FOSS, M$, yeah why not Apple) you have to get pass the first two weeks and face your daemons to achieve enlightenment. What the enlightenment I am talking about, you may ask? Well, every OS has it’s very own feel, emanating from the paradigms it uses and promotes.
Windows paradigm? Windows does everything, what other do, but in a very Microsoft way. A lot of applications, a lot of places, a lot of way to perform tasks, files spread all over the system; I believe it is the same symptom that Linux faces. The Windows ecosystem wants to be everything for everyone, but it lacks the opensourceness of Linux to make thing even worse. If something doesn’t behave as you want there is no way to bent it to your will.
Linux, is everything, everywhere, for everyone. I am not overstating here. The linux ecosystem is like water; in the hands of wizards it can take every imaginable shape: packet watch, mobile phone, tablet, toaster, pc, on mac hardware, servers, clusters. Just for fun I have to track down the first Linux system in space. There is no string attached to the power of Linux, its all yours. The only obstacle on using its force is you, the limiting factor is oneself knowledge. That gives birth to the ‘linux syndrome’ of fealing the power and not being able to use it.
Mac is dedicated to personal computing, and has good support for 80% of the common everyday tasks that every one does, and everyone wants. So 80% of the time it simply works, and you don’t have to search for get your things done. For the remaining 20% there is the whole power of ‘the linux way’ hidden under the hood. Yes, I am not understating here either. Everything you can do on linux, can be done on Mac OS X. So why unhappy about Linux? Because you have to invest time to learn the beast and it has to be tamed to your needs and will, but as soon as you get along wiht it and done the configuration for your 80% tasks, it is a good working horse, as good and clean as Mac OS X.
Will be continued…
