. | Mac User For a Month #5Long Live Apple- 24 Nov. 1999
Eric "Zoltan"
DeStefano
The biggest excuse for a PC user to avoid the Macintosh
is that, "Mac's are for desktop publishing, and I don't do
that." The real reason your average PC user doesn't use a
Macintosh is because it isn't all around them. People adapt
to and accept what they are surrounded by. Sadly, that is
Microsoft Windows. But lately people have not been accepting their
surroundings, and everyone is looking for an "alternative"
to Microsoft. "Down with Microsoft," the Windows-using
lemmings scream. "Give us an alternative." Be careful what you wish for -- you just might get it.
Before I announce if I am going to be a Macintosh user for
life, I would like to introduce a scenario that I don't
think to many people in Wintel land have thought about. Let's say that Microsoft does get split up, Windows 2000
bombs, and the public gets their way by Microsoft getting
wiped off the face of the planet. There is an old saying,
"Don't **** wear you eat," and I think PC users don't quite
understand that. If PC users loose Microsoft, their PCs will
be little more than paperweights. All the PC applications
and games will be ported to Linux. "We don't know Linux or
Unix!" the PC users will scream. "Why should we have to
learn command line now? We didn't have to with Windows." You made your bed; now you have to sleep in it. Microsoft will fall, and Linux will thrive in the x86
arena. The power/influence will be taken away from the so
called "professionals" and put back into the hands of geeks
like myself (where it belonged to begin with). My dollar
value in the IT field will triple, because I have worked
with Unix for many years exclusively in the information
technology field. PC users will be running scared, screaming
"What do we do!" Macintosh users will rejoice in their victory over
Microsoft, and I think the Mac users will welcome Microsoft
refugees with open arms. It's just in your nature, and
that's what puts the Macintosh crowd above the rest. So will I continue to be a PC user, or convert to the
Macintosh platform? Yes to both. For the general public, I think the Macintosh is the
future. For a user such as myself, I like to work on several
platforms. I welcome everything that is new and exiting with
an open mind. For my day to day tasks, I will continue to
use a Mac. Perhaps when I start playing with Mac OS X
 Server,
I will be able morph some of my other activities as well. My
Quadra 605 will need to
be replaced, because it just doesn't offer the power I
need. I think a G4 may be in
order to become my full time computer. Except for the
Quadra's speed, the Macintosh is top notch. The Mac OS is
superior to all other mainstream OS's. Networking needs to
be improved a bit, but I will save that for another time.
Security is flawless, but that's what happens when you have
people who know what they are doing. I now consider myself an official Macintosh user, but the
metamorphosis is far from complete. Until it is, I will
continue to tell you all about here at Low End Mac. Long live Apple!  Mac Metamorphosis IndexRecent Editorials at Low End Mac- Where's the G4/500?, Dan
Knight, Mac Musings, 1/21. "Remember how Steve Jobs announced the
Power Mac G4 on August 31, 1999?"
- The World Wide Web, Dan
Knight, Mac Musings, 1/20. It's grown to over one billion pages
with no end in sight.
- Macintosh 2000
revisited, Dan Knight, Low End Mac, 1/19. Eight years ago
Henry Bortman guessed what today's Mac would be. Today we're
evaluating his predictions.
- PC to Mac and back and back,
My First Mac, 1/18. "I still love and use my original Mac Plus --
I would never get rid of it for anything."
- SAM, the Sixteenth
Anniversary Macintosh, Anne Onymus, The Rumor Mill, 1/18.
Cross a Color Classic with a G3 and what do you get?
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