ok .. i confess .. i've been browsing the apple site for a couple months now, and have even built a couple sample systems .. i even go the apple store here in soho, wade through the people, guffaw at all the alternative look-a-likes, sigh heavily, then leave .. (why does everyone look like a bored hipster oddly named grunge band artist?)
ok ok, i agree that the aqua ue covering darwin riding some large feline makes for a very pretty FreeBSD with NeXTstep underpinnings - [now being propagenda'd as Cocoa (predictable that openDarwin seems to be pitifully behind in the same trend as GnuStep/OpenStep - i guess x86 h/w sales cut into Job's profit stream)] .. and while i do like the freedom from the x86 bandwagon and base instruction set that AMD is dutifully following (while making it's own sparc gap transformer) .. there's something troubling about this company i can't quite put my finger on. while it's not as pricy as our h/w - it is still somewhat aimed at the "buy a piece of art" crowd .. and it seems that the sales pervasion has crept in pretty deeply .. i can't count the number of mac owners who gleefully confess "it just works" or encourage me to look at this or that (toolbar pop-up, windowing abstraction)
are we all that easily distracted now that we think the most important piece of computing h/w is the cool-ness factor of the interface? don't get me wrong - i'm all for saving time and brain cells for organization .. i just think there's still got to be a better way, and i'm not convinced yet that apple will help get me there .. still there is something appealing on a basic level to the apple package that i might want to buy into .. maybe i'll just start with the new ipod
