In different circumstances, Dr. Stevil and I would have had a date last night, at the Apple store.
The new OS, OS X 10.5 aka: Leopard, was released last night. Typically, the Apple store closes for an hour or two, and reopens with great fanfare in the evening. People line up, everyone cheers and tchotchkes are distributed. According the emails I received a couple of weeks ago, there were to be free tshirts last night. Steve and I have gone to the last few OS X releases together.
Sadly, there are no Apple stores in BC. There are plenty of resellers, but the only official Apple stores are in Toronto. Stupid Toronto.*
Wonder why people line up hours ahead of time for an OS? Well, either you get it or you don’t. If you don’t, I can’t begin to explain to you the visceral pleasure of being a Mac user. Be happy in your PC use, I wish you all the best. I’m not sure I would want everyone to love the Mac the way that we faithful do. Although, one of the people on the tech show “Attack of the Show” made a disparaging remark about Apple products and I now refer to her as That British Bitch (she’s the only British one on the show, or I’d have to come up with a different Bitch label. That Brunette Bitch?) and flip the tv off when she shows up on screen. Lucky, she’s a minor feature on the show. So maybe you should be happy in your pc world, and be careful about what you say about Apple around me. I’m kinda sassy.
No, seriously, don’t even try to Apple bash with me, I find I have very strong feelings about it.
I’ll pick up a copy of Leopard later this weekend and let you know what I think. I could just save time, however, and say, right now, that it ROCKS and I LOVE IT. Because you know both are going to be true.
*it’s ok, apparently hating Toronto is a national pastime for all Canadians living in Not Toronto. I don’t know why, I’ve never been there. I’m just trying to fit in.
Pastime.
And Toronto invented this myth that everyone else hates it – makes it feel superior… Freakin’ Toronto.
And I’ve been holding off on buying an iMac until Leopard came out, so I hear you on the Apple thing, too.
Jodi, Jodi, Jodi, you know that I would never Apple bash you. I love Apples, and would be overjoyed to have a nice MacBook Pro of my very own, buuuuuuut…..I do need to remind you that us PC folks do get all the cool new Sims stuff months before you do.
Not bashing…just saying… =)
OH MY GOD.
I had no idea you had written this. How weird is that?
And how opposite our opinions are!!!
Although my bile is reserved for the iPhone. I think Apply Mac computers are easier and better to use – I just find Dell POS computers to be more affordable and entirely adequete!
I wish I could test drive a iMac Pro for a couple of months to give a proper comparison. It is funny that the downfall of Vista is that MS is trying to mimic the UI from Apple with failed results.
Honestly, don’t really get the Mac thing yet, but that’s because I’m not rich enough to own a Mac. The laptop we got for me was a cheap Acer, but it’s great for what I do (web use, word processing, and buying music on itunes). Someday I’ll have a Mac. We have a G4 but I only use it for Garageband and that doesn’t lend itself to infatuation.
Yet.
Still, I wish I could find someone with your attitude to hang out with in Nashville. I just scare everyone away who isn’t as opinionated and hilarious as me. 🙂