Global Nerdy » Mac http://www.globalnerdy.com Tech Evangelist Joey deVilla on software development, tech news and other nerdy stuff Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:05:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How Fanboys See Operating Systems http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/12/16/how-fanboys-see-operating-systems/ http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/12/16/how-fanboys-see-operating-systems/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:08:40 +0000 Joey deVilla http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/12/16/how-fanboys-see-operating-systems/

how fanboys see operating systems

This article also appears in The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

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U.S. $1000 bill

Here’s a thought experiment for you Windows developers out there: the fact that Apple pretty much owns the $1000+ computer market is in fact an opportunity. Discuss.

(This article appears with slightly different wording – to try things from a different perspective – on the official Microsoft Canada developer blog, Canadian Developer Connection.)

]]> http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/07/24/the-sub-1000-opportunity/feed/ 5 After a Month in Vista, This Pretty Much Sums Up My Feelings About Operating Systems http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/04/09/after-a-month-in-vista-this-pretty-much-sums-up-my-feelings-about-operating-systems/ http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/04/09/after-a-month-in-vista-this-pretty-much-sums-up-my-feelings-about-operating-systems/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:15:16 +0000 Joey deVilla http://globalnerdy.com/?p=1582 When I moved to my current position as Nerd Wrangler at b5media, I arrived to discover that the computer waiting for me was a Toshiba P200, a 17" beast of a laptop that I've named "The Coffee Table". This is the first time in about 5 years that I've worked with Windows as my primary operating system, and after a month in Vista, my feelings about operating systems are pretty much summarized by the picture below:

\"I\'m a Mac. I\'m UNIX. I\'m Vista.\"

More on my experiences in a later post.

[Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.]

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When I moved to my current position as Nerd Wrangler at b5media, I arrived to discover that the computer waiting for me was a Toshiba P200, a 17″ beast of a laptop that I’ve named “The Coffee Table”. This is the first time in about 5 years that I’ve worked with Windows as my primary operating system, and after a month in Vista, my feelings about operating systems are pretty much summarized by the picture below:

\"I\'m a Mac. I\'m UNIX. I\'m Vista.\"

More on my experiences in a later post.

[Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.]

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