Spencerian's Journal: It's a Breath Mint AND a Floor Wax!

After posting a review of the latest edition of a book and reading the comments, I've gleaned more about the rifts that are still all too present in the Macintosh world.

There are the Original Mac Heads who will fight tooth and nail to keep running only with Mac OS 9, fearing or disliking the changes they've heard about with Mac OS X.

There are the PC Switchers who get a taste for Mac OS X, but feel that they still have a better deal in some ways with their PCs running Windows, and usually compromise with themselves and own both kinds.

There are UNIX aficionados who are generally pleased with OS X from what they've heard or seen, but consider OS X still limiting, for one reason or another, in comparison to their other *nix boxen ("I hate NetInfo!" "Can I just run the command line?" "I don't know if OS X can compile this app." "I need to develop apps that work on PCs/Linux/Windows too...").

And there are the few elightened ones who buy and use what suits them, but eliminate nothing from consideration--so long as it works in a UNIX ancestry or relation.

Today, I have little need for a PC except to play some games that haven't been ported to Mac OS X, and perhaps to keep my tech skills in tune with the mainstream PC tech industry.

I guess it comes down to what a person really does with their computer, day in and day out. Compare what and how you do thing on one platform, and compare it to others, and one might get a big surprise in performance, ease, compatibility, or efficiency.