http://www.andiamsomebody.com/autobiographical/design male. in my twenties. recovering alcoholic. live in minneapolis. work in progress. gay. serenity please. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:24:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.andiamsomebody.com/autobiographical/design#comment-3297 David Gilmore Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:10:05 +0000 http://www.andiamsomebody.com/autobiographical/design#comment-3297 A lot of changes going on in you life Dan. It's a big step to go out on you own. No matter how things work out, you are wise to give it a go and I'm sure with all of your experience and network, you should do just fine. Moving from a PC to iMac is not as big or bold a move. I recently purchased the 24" iMac for my photography work. Mainly for the reasons you mentioned here as well as stability. As you may know, OS X Leopard is essentially a UNIX based OS. This makes it smart, efficient and stable. I'm sure your dad can tell you about that. Every day I discover something new and very cool I didn't know about this machine. I don't need a notebook for my work so I didn't really look at the MacBook Air. There is a lot of media attention going for it right now. I wish I had it when I was training for GE on the road hauling my heavy Dell and InFocus projector through the airports. Now you could put both in a small portfolio. I'm not much into the iPhone or Blackberry but that too might have been something I could have used. If I recall correctly, Android was a Linux based phone. Now both Linux and OS X run on the same UNIX base. I've already downloaded UNIX/Linux based software like GIMP onto my iMac and they work great. There will be more and more open source software available as time goes on so the main complaint about Macs in general, the software cost, is now fading away. I'll be interested to see how your Mac works out for you. UB A lot of changes going on in you life Dan. It’s a big step to go out on you own. No matter how things work out, you are wise to give it a go and I’m sure with all of your experience and network, you should do just fine.
Moving from a PC to iMac is not as big or bold a move. I recently purchased the 24″ iMac for my photography work. Mainly for the reasons you mentioned here as well as stability.
As you may know, OS X Leopard is essentially a UNIX based OS. This makes it smart, efficient and stable. I’m sure your dad can tell you about that.
Every day I discover something new and very cool I didn’t know about this machine. I don’t need a notebook for my work so I didn’t really look at the MacBook Air. There is a lot of media attention going for it right now. I wish I had it when I was training for GE on the road hauling my heavy Dell and InFocus projector through the airports. Now you could put both in a small portfolio.
I’m not much into the iPhone or Blackberry but that too might have been something I could have used. If I recall correctly, Android was a Linux based phone. Now both Linux and OS X run on the same UNIX base. I’ve already downloaded UNIX/Linux based software like GIMP onto my iMac and they work great. There will be more and more open source software available as time goes on so the main complaint about Macs in general, the software cost, is now fading away.
I’ll be interested to see how your Mac works out for you.
UB

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