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<\/p>\nOn Monday my new Macbook Pro arrived. Three days earlier it was in a factory in Shanghai! Why can’t everyone be as efficient as FedEx?<\/p>\n
When I was in 2nd grade, there was a computer in our class and the teacher would let me stay after class to type in programs from a magazine. One of the programs I typed in made some kind of cool graphics display when I finally finished typing. Well, cool at the time, anyway. I was sold onto computers ever since. Picking up on my interest, my parents got me an Apple \/\/c for my birthday which ranks up there as one of the most influential things they did for me.<\/p>\n
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I kept typing away. While the cool kids were outside playing, I was busy typing in programs from Nibble magazine<\/a>, which is probably what created my appreciation for programming. Makes me wonder how such an interest is conveyed to today’s kids.<\/p>\n Sure, Lode Runner LOOKS colorful, but all I had on my Apple was green on black! The kids that had Commodore 64s had it better, since the games were superior.<\/p>\n So, I’ve now come full circle with my return to Apple. And like a million other dorks, I’ve posted geeky pictures of my Macbook on my blog.<\/p>\n The cool styrofoam all the Mac dorks keep talking about.<\/p>\n The little square box contains all the user manuals and CDs. Very compact and well designed. And the little remote is cute. You use it to control Front Row, a media center for OS X.<\/p>\n Behold the shiny X. Your brain shall be imprinted and uploaded for review by the cult of Steve.<\/p>\n The machine is very fast. From poweron to desktop took all of some number of seconds that I didn’t count.<\/p>\n Since I am such a greedy bastard I have three laptops now. One runs XP, the other runs Ubuntu Linux, and now I’ve got the Macbook. A buffet of the best and worst of each world.<\/p>\n Overall, I’m enjoying the Macbook Pro quite a bit. I’m still trying to get used to the Apple way of doing things. They certainly put a lot of effort into the look-and-feel of every application. I hope that the attention to detail extends beyond the “ooh, shiny” aspect of the machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Monday my new Macbook Pro arrived. Three days earlier it was in a factory in Shanghai! Why can’t everyone be as efficient as FedEx? When I was in 2nd grade, there was a computer in our class and the … Continue reading ![\"loderunner\"](\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/crackbaby\/apple2c3.jpg\")
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