{"id":2077,"date":"2010-04-15T13:08:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2010-04-15T13:08:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:08:04","slug":"made-the-move-to-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/made-the-move-to-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Made the move to Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a follow-up to Why I might switch to Mac from Ubuntu<\/a>, I did actually get a Mac… or, more precisely, my wife got a new Mac, and I inherited her old one. <\/p>\n

Clarifications<\/b>
Unfortunately, it seemed some of the commenters on that entry brought their own agendas and grudges without actually reading what I wrote. I have tried other distros, many of them, in fact—probably at least 20 distros over the past five years. You can read about some of my more recent failed attempts at trying non-Ubuntu distros<\/a>. Two of my reasons for switching had nothing to do with Ubuntu specifically—that there were hardware regressions in the Linux kernel (and bugs in other upstream packages), and that the whole approach of the operating system development being wholly independent of the hardware development is a flawed approach if you want to increase adoption (which, incidentally, Ubuntu is trying to do<\/a>, and not all Linux distros are). <\/p>\n

To those who claim Macs “just work,” I have to disagree. For more details, read Macs are just computers, not magic<\/a> and Macs are computers, not magic (part 2)<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In terms of what happened in getting the new Mac, it’s been an interesting mix of positives and negatives (Can you believe it? Macs are not the holy grail, nor are they the devil incarnate). <\/p>\n

The Apple Store<\/b>
One of the nice things about the Apple store is that there are a lot of display models of various Apple products you can try out. So my wife and I got to spend considerable time playing around with the new Macbook Pro before we decided on purchasing it. More importantly, the sales staff appear to be trained on finding the right balance between being unavailable and being oversolicitous. A few annoying things about the sales staff, though: <\/p>\n