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The Return of the Mac

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Tuesday Apr 5 2005

With OS X, the hackers are back. When I walked into the Apple store in Cambridge, it was like coming home. Much was changed, but there was still that Apple coolness in the air, that feeling that the show was being run by someone who really cared, instead of random corporate deal-makers.Paul Graham in The Return of the Mac

c'mon admit it, you want one too...

It's the 'hackers' that don't settle for a half-assed solution. They want everything. This nice article describes quite clearly what I felt when I decided to stop the long nights of mindless tinkering with Linux desktops and buy a UNIX box that just... well, works AND looks good, both on the screen and from the outside. It had to be a mac. Mac OS X 10.0.0 had just come out and it's come a long way since then. I can't wait for Tiger.

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At 05 April '05 - 20:55 Simon wrote:

c’mon admit it, you want one too…

I admit! Apple’s design is sooo super slick =)
At 05 April '05 - 22:46 Chantal wrote:
Tiger rocks. I am in an AppleSeed right now. The latest builds are becoming better and better.

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