Littlest Finch

With today’s impending announcement from Apple, I got to thinking about how I’ve slowly morphed into a Mac enthusiast. Much of my hesitation was due to the fact that I like playing computer games and that is largely a PC arena. A second barrier was the fact that Justin Long just comes off insufferable in those “I’m a Mac” ads. I felt bad for poor, portly, out of date PC and didn’t want to become one of those people. You know, the ones that think they’re hip and interesting because they have every Apple product in existence. “Oh, you didn’t get the Magic Mouse yet? You haven’t lived, darling!” “Wow, you’re still using a Motorola phone? Get with the times, it’s 2009.” My MAIN apprehension in purchasing anything Apple was also the fact that the second you buy something from them? Two days later, the price goes down because they’ve come out with a new model.

Even walking around an Apple store makes me feel like some hipster, pounding bass dictates a cool runway walk as you enter the store. I’m just not that cool and I never will be – I am, however, a designer and an illustrator. Guess what? Graphics are amazing on my Macbook. I can run simultaneously programs from the Adobe Creative Suite without fear that the computer will crash. Even with a sufficient amount of RAM and hard drive space, I’m still wary of working on too many programs simultaneously on my PC. Gone is the ‘blue screen of death’ in name, but crashes still happen frequently if you actually use your computer with this expectations that the specs will live up to their promises. When you’re a designer, you need to have several programs open at once, quite often with a large number of files open. My PC just wasn’t cutting it. For games and gaming graphics? Of course it wins out.

Right now, I use a Macbook at work that also runs Windows XP. I needed Windows mostly because so much of the work done in my office is facilitated through Outlook and Entourage/iCal just weren’t working for me. At home, I have a PC. My next step is purchasing an iMac for my home, so that I can be fully functional in both gaming and my creative work and of course the caveat being the massive decrease in desk space. The fact that I need to own two computers to really fulfill all my needs is a little ridiculous. Also, just a sidenote – HEY APPLE, COULD YOU PLEASE CREATE SOME KIND OF SHORTCUT TO MINIMIZE ALL WINDOWS? I mean, I get the ‘expose’ feature, but that’s not really a one-click solution. Just saying.