Hi guys. It’s always awkward writing the first few posts but I have decided to open up and give a brief introduction about this blog and my own background.
I am a recent Windows to Apple immigrant. Up to approx two months ago I had never purchased any product named after a fruit. My previous PC was custom built and featured a dual boot between Windows XP and Ubuntu. I pieced that PC together approx four years ago, as a result I was in need of an upgrade.
Vista was just about to hit the market in a blaze of glory……the blaze was caused by it crash landing. It was receiving a frosty reception from all corners. It’s clear that if you want to run Vista, your PC needs to be very high end.
From looking at video casts of Vista in action, and from using it first hand at the Microsoft launch of Vista in Crooke Park, it became clear that MS obtained a lot of inspiration from Apple’s OS X operating system. I estimated that to setup a PC capable of running Vista efficiently would cost approx £1,200. Why spend that much on the imitator when you buy the originally amazing OS X?
Ultimately, it was MS’s inability to make a suitable Operating System, which drove me to Mac.
I have being using Windows most of my life. During college, at work and at home, I have endured them for too long. My college days are behind me but I’m going to be using Windows based systems in work, I can’t get past that. Using PCs became so boring to me. I wanted to try something new. I didn’t want to be stuck in front of XP both at work and at home. I wanted to differentiate between working in my office and working at home on my personal stuff.
I purchased a 20″ iMac from the Apple Store back in Feburay. Since then I also picked up a 5th generation 30gb iPod Video player and a MacBook. A wireless Mighty Mouse accompanies my MacBook and I also have an Incase laptop bag.
macBlogger is where I’m going to post about my experiences with running Apple products. I’m fairly new to Apple software and hardware so you can expect a lot of noivce-y posts but I wouldn’t rule out some techy posts in the near future as I become more familiar and adventurous with Apple systems.
If you would like to post about your own experiences with Apple, then please contact me. I would love for more people to become involved with macBlogger and for them to be able to share their pleasures. I spoke to Robbet Hamburg (MAC OSX)a few months ago about contributing to this blog and he was interested at the time. Hopefully he is still willing to provide some assistance.
As you have probably already noticed, I have a main blog available at Cormac Moylan dot com. There is a small Apple-Mac section on that blog, however this blog is now fully dedicated to my experiences with Apple Macs.
This site is hosted on Worpdress, it uses iTheme as its template and is hosted in Ireland by Blacknight Solutions.
I hope you enjoy macBlogger.
Cormac
May 20th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Best of luck with the site Cormac
May 20th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Danke, Mr Gallagher.
May 27th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Good Luck with this. Pity you didn’t consider web2.0ifiying your domain before buying it. macBloggr is much better than macBlogger
May 27th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Cormac,
I’ve about a year’s headstart on you, but I changed to Mac for exactly the same reasons - the “family” PC is still available when I need it, but I’ve found the Mac can do everything I ask of it, quicker and easier than Windows.
p.s: did you apply for the free copy of Vista that Microsoft promised the attendees at Croke Park? Still waiting myself - my curiousity would force me to try dual-booting my Mac…
Francis
May 27th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Eoin, what would happen when web 3.0 became more mainstream?
I would have to register mcblogrz or something. Yikes!
Plus Google will through up a ‘did you mean mac blogger’ message on occasions.
Francis,
I agree about the speed and the do it better points. Totally. I had concerns about a year ago about switching to Mac due to software issues but I haven’t come across a single instance where there was no Mac alternative. I would actually say that software in general runs better on Mac.
I got my free Vista and Office CDs only after chasing them up a few times about it. I have Vista dual booted on my iMac. Never really use it. I took a look at it at and said ‘meh’, back to OSX.
Thanks for visiting guys
Cormac
May 28th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Good stuff Cormac ! I’ve been thinking of doing the change soon, maybe for my next computer which is due in 6-12 months. It will be interesting to hear about your changeover.
All the best with the new site too !
ciao,
p
May 28th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Cheers Paul,
I would strongly recommend the change over.
Macs can run Windows/Linux both as a dual boot and via parallels. http://www.parallels.com/
You get the best of both worlds and you are using superior hardware. Leopard should be out near the end of the year so maybe then would be a good time to upgrade..
I need to start blogging more on here..
May 28th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Cormac,
Was there a particular person/email address you chased Microsoft on - I have a little undirected frustration I could send in their direction over the non-appearance of my Vista CD.
Regarding ease-of-use in Mac OSX, I cannot only say the following: it is very rare that I consider buying a book a waste of money, but while awaiting delivery of my Mac, I picked up “The Missing Manual - Mac OSX Tiger Edition”; I don’t think I’ve flicked through it more than once or twice in the past 15 months. (I found the other “Missing Manual” I read to be fantastic - “Google Edition”)
Francis
May 28th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
A yes, the bible that is Google. Goglble?
Live and learn is the only way Francis.
The thing I love about Macs and Apple software in general is the ‘if you think it should do this, then it probably does it’ philosophy.
I will look up the Microsoft email address tomorrow in work.
May 29th, 2007 at 10:09 am
YUP i still am interested.
Rob
May 29th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Excellent news Robbert. I’ll talk to you on MSN this evening.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
No problemo just give me a ping when online !
May 30th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
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