The setting. A quiet, snowy Saturday night at the Prineas house. John and Sarah sitting on the couch; the kids in bed. Lemon zinger tea has been served
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I once heartily resisted the attempts of a friend of mine to convert me to Macs. There are pictures of him playing on a Mac as a toddler. We've been good friends since fourth grade. In the eight years we were classmates and friends, he never once tempted me to get a Mac.
Um, and then I got my laptop a year and a half ago. :) So there is hope!
It's also funny because I don't know any astronomers who use PCs. Everyone's Mac, Unix, Linux, or some combination thereof.
Really! J says he doesn't know any physicists who use Macs. But he doesn't do much computer crunching except getting his students to program the pc's in the lab to interface with the machines and equipment.
I do believe we've had a similar conversation in our house.
Until, that is, someone started eyeing my iPod and decided that maybe it'd be cool to have one of those himself. And then -- when I took my Mac in for a checkup -- he saw the latest flat screens, and I found him ten minutes later absorbed in playing with the latest Macs.
Conversion is a slow and steady process, requiring much subtlety, but it will come!
I think you'd posted something on a mutual friend's journal, and I followed it back to your posts and thus friended, and completely forgot (most likely) to actually, err, say that I'd friended. I tend to friend/defriend as I have time/energy, or as my interests come/go, and thus don't always get formal about it.
But, that aside, hello, pleased to be stopping by.
(And trying very hard to ignore the fact that my little Mac has been on almost consistently for... wait a minute, I said 2005, no, I got this one in 2004, wow, April 2004 -- so it's been on almost consistently for three years. I don't think I've ever owned a PC that lasted this long, even if I did have the harddrive replaced in April of last year, and I think the touchpad is on the fritz, so I use an external mouse exclusively now. Nothing so major I fear for the computer's life, but I really don't need to deal with getting new computer... still have that Harley to pay off, after all!)
I was a PC person until two things happened: 1)I had a neck injury which required me to switch to a lighter laptop and 2)the MacOS starting floating on a Linux platform. Mmmmm...Linux command line interface...mmm...
No, no, no. That will just cause a fatal error and you'll have to control, alt, delete to get him rebooted! The Windows is so embedded in his operating system that you will have to get him to play with a mac first, see the new ones that do everything before there is any hope of a conversion.
Weatherdude says that yes, there are interface cards (for that equipment in his lab) that have worked only with pc's. But he also says that is going away.
(Yah, I know you can add the two-button mouse. But I tried, I really tried, to give Macs fair test-drives, when I was shopping for my current laptop. But I'd put my hands down and start typing and I couldn't, I just couldn't.)
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Um, and then I got my laptop a year and a half ago. :) So there is hope!
It's also funny because I don't know any astronomers who use PCs. Everyone's Mac, Unix, Linux, or some combination thereof.
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Really! J says he doesn't know any physicists who use Macs. But he doesn't do much computer crunching except getting his students to program the pc's in the lab to interface with the machines and equipment.
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Until, that is, someone started eyeing my iPod and decided that maybe it'd be cool to have one of those himself. And then -- when I took my Mac in for a checkup -- he saw the latest flat screens, and I found him ten minutes later absorbed in playing with the latest Macs.
Conversion is a slow and steady process, requiring much subtlety, but it will come!
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(and hello! I don't think I know you, but thanks for stopping by!).
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But, that aside, hello, pleased to be stopping by.
(And trying very hard to ignore the fact that my little Mac has been on almost consistently for... wait a minute, I said 2005, no, I got this one in 2004, wow, April 2004 -- so it's been on almost consistently for three years. I don't think I've ever owned a PC that lasted this long, even if I did have the harddrive replaced in April of last year, and I think the touchpad is on the fritz, so I use an external mouse exclusively now. Nothing so major I fear for the computer's life, but I really don't need to deal with getting new computer... still have that Harley to pay off, after all!)
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But let me ask you a question. Did you name your Mac?
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First, I take Windows off him...
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Weatherdude says that yes, there are interface cards (for that equipment in his lab) that have worked only with pc's. But he also says that is going away.
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Also, the funny of a physicist calling other people freaks...ha :-)
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(Yah, I know you can add the two-button mouse. But I tried, I really tried, to give Macs fair test-drives, when I was shopping for my current laptop. But I'd put my hands down and start typing and I couldn't, I just couldn't.)
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But what's a PC keyboard?
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