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Jun. 18th, 2002 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaobellI am home, and back in the land of the PeeCee.
With Macs, I do, theoretically, sort of know what I'm doing. What I don't know, I can figure out with relative ease. But I'm really pretty fuckin' Mac stupid.
But this thing is almost enough to make me want to run right out and buy a flat panel iMac of my own. JESUS. I do still have the phantom right-click syndrome with it, but I did figure out how to set it up to connect to IO without consulting Help, so I count that as a small victory. Point and laugh. You know you want to.
The thing comes with a drive that is not only a CD-RW drive, not only a DVD drive...it's a CD/DVD burner. Yes, DVD burner. God. Although I still get the heebiejeebies at the thought of a box that does not have a floppy drive, I think I could deal with it on this one.
I would probably never, ever, ever use a Mac as my primary computer; as much as I bitch about Micro$oft, I was Windows-brainwashed early in the game. However, anything later than 98SE will be installed on my computer over my dead body.
I like OSX. It makes sense. It's easy to use. It's pretty.
I like Linux. It's fun to play with. It's free. It has the GIMP. I probably should have gotten Mandrake instead of Lycoris, but.
But I'm spoiled on Windows for all my Important Shit.
I positively drooled over those little crystal ball speakers, though. Mmmmmf.
Also, the guy with the Evil Inside case is modding a case for me. A little more than I wanted to pay for a case--in the $100 neighborhood--but as he does this for fun and not for profit, he's going to be cool about letting me give money here and there till it's paid for.
Mine will be charcoal gray, not black. Instead of red lights inside, it'll have blue. My window will have rounded corners on it, instead of the sharp corners like his. And he even found me an Evil Inside sticker to put on it. I'll probably replace it with the Your Mom Inside one, though.
With Macs, I do, theoretically, sort of know what I'm doing. What I don't know, I can figure out with relative ease. But I'm really pretty fuckin' Mac stupid.
But this thing is almost enough to make me want to run right out and buy a flat panel iMac of my own. JESUS. I do still have the phantom right-click syndrome with it, but I did figure out how to set it up to connect to IO without consulting Help, so I count that as a small victory. Point and laugh. You know you want to.
The thing comes with a drive that is not only a CD-RW drive, not only a DVD drive...it's a CD/DVD burner. Yes, DVD burner. God. Although I still get the heebiejeebies at the thought of a box that does not have a floppy drive, I think I could deal with it on this one.
I would probably never, ever, ever use a Mac as my primary computer; as much as I bitch about Micro$oft, I was Windows-brainwashed early in the game. However, anything later than 98SE will be installed on my computer over my dead body.
I like OSX. It makes sense. It's easy to use. It's pretty.
I like Linux. It's fun to play with. It's free. It has the GIMP. I probably should have gotten Mandrake instead of Lycoris, but.
But I'm spoiled on Windows for all my Important Shit.
I positively drooled over those little crystal ball speakers, though. Mmmmmf.
Also, the guy with the Evil Inside case is modding a case for me. A little more than I wanted to pay for a case--in the $100 neighborhood--but as he does this for fun and not for profit, he's going to be cool about letting me give money here and there till it's paid for.
Mine will be charcoal gray, not black. Instead of red lights inside, it'll have blue. My window will have rounded corners on it, instead of the sharp corners like his. And he even found me an Evil Inside sticker to put on it. I'll probably replace it with the Your Mom Inside one, though.
