JOkazaki.com » Microsoft http://jokazaki.com All In The Mind Of Joey Okazaki! Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:20:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Apple has me by the Core http://jokazaki.com/2008/08/06/apple-has-me-by-the-core/ http://jokazaki.com/2008/08/06/apple-has-me-by-the-core/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:17:22 +0000 JOkazaki http://jokazaki.com/?p=36 Continue reading →]]> Yes, I’m an Apple convert and oh boy do I have allot to catch you up on. A few years back I received a 5th gen iPod as a Christmas gift, which started it all. Once the iPod touch came out, I jumped on that in a heart beat as my 5th gen was giving me the fits. At that point I was still living in a Bill Gates M$ Windows world. With the advent of Vista heading down the pipe at the time I decided to give it a shot on my main system at the which was a under-powered ThinkPad R40 with a 2.2Ghz mobile P4 processor and 1GB RAM. That was short lived and I wanted a new laptop anyway. ;) After being a PC guy practically all my life and the little experience I had with MacOS 8 and 9 during my senior year of High School as I took over sys admin duties for a small Mac lab for our YearBook club. As most would be, I was a bit nervous making that type of jump over to the Mac. As I looked at my computing habits and the applications I used at the time, I had the idea that it was going to be a very easy transition as most of my daily tasks were browser based or I was able to find free or cheap alternatives on MacOS 10 Leopard.

Don’t get me wrong here, Microsoft Windows has it’s place. I’m definitely a multi-platform computing person with systems here at home running different all kinds of different flavors of Windows and Linux. I thrive in this stuff, my couple hundred dollar annual subscription to Microsoft TechNet proves that point. At work we are an all Windows shop on the desktop side, which I what I support. Every OS has it’s place and differences, yes, Apple just suites my general home computing needs very well.

I opted for a high-end refurbished 17″ MacBook Pro, I couldn’t be happier with the switch. I do have VMware Fusion for the occasional Windows app I need to run but I find myself using that less and less. Come on GOOGLE, where’s Picasa for the Mac?!?!?!?

I must say, Apple has a wonderful online community behind them. I would say almost like a cult following if you want to look at it that way. Very nice people who are willing to help and grow the community to make it was it is. This really came to life when I recently got the latest 3G iPhone while I was waiting in line, I’ll make that a posting of it’s own. What an experience!

As of late as mentioned above I got the iPhone 3G which was to upgrade my 1st gen iPhone. I know, I’m a g33k, got to have the latest and greatest. Especially if it’s an Apple product, right? :)

Don’t be surprised if I post something about the Apple TV, that’s all I’m going to say for now. Can you guess?

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