April 01, 2006

My Macbook Pro arrived

Okay you mac-people. I see what you mean, itīs really neat. 24 hours after switching from PC to MAC Iīve really started to love it. The keyboard shortcuts, the widgets, the effectivity of Quicksilver, the software, the crisp screen, the good integrated camera, the strong battery, the absence of cables and wires, the lightweight of the computer itself and the heavy processor(s).

But you really love anti-aliasing, donīt you?
The text is really blurred on the mac. I allways wondered why you guys keep it that way. Then it appears you canīt really do anything about it. Except getting used to it. I tried do remove antialiasing and it worked only partly. My colleague came over and yelled "youīve fucked up the text?". Five minutes later Photoshop gave me a similar message warning. Okay. Iīll try to get used to it but if I was to decide: you should try out the crisp pixels, instead of these fury characters. Itīs like reading a washed out text.

The voices of Bill and Barney
Itīs obvious that a Mac and a PC speak to you in quite different "voices". When you install Windows on a new PC you get the voice of Bill, a businessman who wants so bad to please all his customers. And their friends and their colleagues and their kids and wifes and the Church and the Holy Spirit. Itīs like buying a car from Ned Flanders, he wants you to feel well but you can tell he does it for the money.
The MAC-voice, I guess, shows more respect for the users intellect (while still being very easy to learn and lowtech). Itīs more like a nerd-to-nerd-conversation where we both share the same fascination for computers, technology and what this thing can do for you and together with you. The result of this, as far as I can deduct, is that your Mac is more like a personal friend. If your PC is Flanders then I guess the Mac is your drinking pal, your Barney.

Posted by jensk at April 1, 2006 04:00 PM
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Get used to the future, Jens! Look, Microsoft's getting there too: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/03/03/543181.aspx

Posted by: Geir Barney at April 1, 2006 04:40 PM

Whenever I see text that I do not read, having cleartype turned on, it reminds me of thoose patterns where you are supposed to see somthing ealse than just clutter. It's a way to compensate for few pixels. I think high-res monitors is the (distant) future. If you read more into Vista, you'll find that everything is vector-based, so it makes sense.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/63390/ibm-t221.html

(A monitor with almost 4000 pixels across, everything missing now is a vector-based digicam).

Posted by: johan at April 1, 2006 10:49 PM

in case you regret going with barney, he's ok with bill: http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

Posted by: johan at April 5, 2006 09:13 PM
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