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I'm a big OS X fan

21 March 2003

I’ve owned an iMac for just under two years now, running Mac OS X. I use it mostly for testing web stuff, and also compatibility problems with Dreamweaver extensions. I recently upgraded to Jaguar, which is one mean kitty.

If I could afford a Mac, I would. I seriously would. I despise Microsoft more and more each day, and am seriously worried for their plans for my future. I’ve flirted with linux off and on for many years, but have never taken to it like I take to OS X.

I was interested to read this article by John Dvorak. It’s long been rumored that Apple have an Intel based version of OS X in the works, but Dvorak’s predictions seem to suggest it will be a) soon, and b) fast.

I’m hoping this will lead to the ability to run OS X on decent hardware at a realistic price. “Happy” wouldn’t come close.

- Drew McLellan

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  1. § Brian: Cool! :D I am ’die-hard’ Apple Computer user for years since I was in high school back then. Needless to say, I have switched from ’that ugly boxy beige’ Apple IIe to Mac SE... At one point, about slightly two years ago, I was going to throw my legacy OS 9 iMac through window. A close friend of mine urged me to be at least patience. I told him that I was not going to be patience. I mean, I was ready to throw it out at any minute at that time. lol He told me that Mac OS X was going to be even so much reliable and better than legacy OS. I told him that I have heard that many times and didn’t want to think about it... Because there isn’t much Macintosh software apps... I never forgot one particular computer store experience... (Not to mention, I am Deaf.) Some young salesperson tried to talk to me behind me and he laughed so hard and kinda mocked at me... I didn’t even know about it... Until one guy standed by me and he tapped my shoulder, ”Hey, I just wanted to let you know that this salesperson had mocked, teased and called you names behind you. I knew that you were deaf.” I said, ”What? What did he said?” He told me that I don’t want to know this. That was pretty bad PC bashers. lol I personally didn’t really care too much about which OS is better than.. It is everyone’s perference and to their liking.

    Well, I am glad that I didn’t turn my back aganist Apple Computer *and* OSX. OSX Jag is even so much better!!!

    I am learning PHP4, MySQL 4.0.12 and recently installed Apache2. I have seen your articles and some topics at Macromedia DevNet Dreamweaver website and your site... and few others. And I read one of your books, but can’t remember the name of it on top of my head at the moment. :)

    Are you considered expertise in PHP and MySQL? I do have a question. But wanna to put on hold until I know if you know much about those two apps? :)

    Cheers and have a great one! Brian

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Drew McLellan (@drewm) has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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