Switching to Apple - Part 2

Well, like I was saying (in part 1), I was intrigued by the fact that I kept running into people who had extensive computer skills , who were using Apple computers.  About six months after the PopTech conference I went to SXSW in Austin, which was another major assemblage of geeks and technoids. 

There was Wi-Fi at the conference and, once again, I noticed that the Apple computers were sniffing the Wi-Fi signal quite easily.  My computer had Windows 2000 and the Wi-Fi card driver I had was not good a finding a signal unless I knew the SSID of the base station.  But I noticed that a few of the Windows users (and they were definitely in the minority) who had XP had some trouble getting the wireless signal at times.  And I seemed to notice that laptops that the Windows people had did not seem to have as much battery life as the Apple guys.

But the icing on the cake came at a late night gathering when I met up with a bunch of the folks at the conference.  One fellow I met was Wes Felter, a major hacker who was then working at IBM (and perhaps still is).  Apparently his job requires him to do a lot of Linux programming, but of course he knew a lot about Windows and said he works in that environment extensively.  I noticed that his personal computer was an Apple.  I asked him why and I forget exactly what he said, but the gist of it was that he just preferred Apple for his personal computing. 

It hit me then that Apple was not a toy computer made for people who couldn't handle the supposedly more sophisticated Windows environment.  Clearly, I needed to learn more about Apple computers.

to be continued.

Last update: 7/14/2003; 9:18:37 PM.