{"id":1629,"date":"2009-10-07T23:23:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T22:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2009-10-07T23:23:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T22:23:32","slug":"mac-owner-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/mac-owner-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac owner again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThe new Mac Mini<\/a>
\nOriginally uploaded by taminator<\/a>
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My first real computer was an Amstrad CPC464.<\/p>\n

However, when I started Uni in 1990, I realised I needed a proper computer for writing essays and the like, and I went for the most popular choice in the Faculty of Arts and bought a Mac SE 2\/40<\/a> (later upgraded to 4\/40, i.e., 4MB of RAM and a 40MB hard disk).<\/p>\n

This computer was really, really expensive, but the nice man in the Apple shop promised me I’d get free software updates for life, because that was how Apple did things.<\/p>\n

A couple of months later, Apple released the Classic at a much lower price and started charging for software upgrades.<\/p>\n

I swore then that I’d never buy a Mac again.<\/p>\n

A couple of years later, I started studying computer science, and I fell in love with Unix.<\/p>\n

Not much later, Linux 1.0 was released, and I bought a PC without Windows and installed Linux on it, and I never looked back.<\/p>\n

Until now.<\/p>\n

Running a business has convinced me that I need to have access to Linux, Windows and Mac, and although Linux and Windows can coexist happily on one machine, that’s not an option for Mac OS X.<\/p>\n

So Complexli<\/a> has now bought a Mac mini<\/a> – I hope that by letting the company buy it, I haven’t fully broken my old oath. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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