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Am I losing my identity? Am I out of touch with my heritage?
I just browsed around apple.com, spec’ed out a low-end iBook, and said, “Gosh, that’s hot. If I was buying right now that’s what I’d get.”
WTF?
Rationale (much needed):
CPU performance increases at this point are trivial to me. I program, read Slashdot, create documents, and do some media work. OS X would handle all of those extremely well, especially since it’s just a Unix system, complete with Bash, X Windows, and GCC/G++ for compiling. I don’t need a bunch of HDD space, and if I did I would add it externally with USB so I could tote it around between different machines.
Plus, I would probably code via an SSH/X forward from my Slack box anyway, which I could accomplish easily with OS X and a wireless network. In fact, I’m already writing documentation over an SSH/X tunnel from Windows XP thanks to PuTTY and Cygwin’s free/free Windows X server.
If you’re not up on that, what this means is that I’m having programs on my Slackware box forward all of their graphics drawing information over an encrypted network connection to my Windows machine. The Windows machine is running an X Windows graphics server, which then renders the remote Linux windows on my Windows machine as a normal application on my desktop. In other words, it’s FBM, baby. F’n black magic.
OS X would do all of this beautifully, while still looking pretty, running fast, and giving me the media capability that I’ve always wanted. With an external DVD burner I could dye my hair green and become a hippy. That would kind of be fun.
This raises all kinds of doubts in my mind: Am I gay? Can I still vote Republican? Is Steve Jobs my daddy?
I was actually more of a Woz fan all along, but I’ve been closeted until now. The IIe is still in my room back home, and it still runs, by golly. I attribute this almost exclusively to The Woz. Is it time for me to return to the fold? To accept my roots as an AppleBASIC programmer?
I wonder if you can still type “CATALOG” at a terminal and list a drive’s contents (I don’t think they had directories back then, actually). Something tells me no. But I would try.