Tuesday, 30 October 2007
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Object Writing - Apple/Macs - 10.30.07
I remember when I first walked into the computer lab that Fall morning back in 2000. “What the heck is this?” I thought to myself as I sat down in from of a computer that was oddly shaped almost like an egg with a small profile keyboard, and a round mouse. “They use Apples here?” was my first thought.I had very little experiences with Apple computers after leaving elementary school and all I had ever heard about that up until that point was how they “sucked” and other horror stories and now I was in a room surrounded by them, and going to have to get really comfortable with these machines for the next two years.
I made peace with that fact fairly quickly and dove right into using the machines. At that time OS X had not yet been released but there were rumblings of it coming soon, and it soon did.
Like a lot of things in life, I quickly realized that a lot of what I had heard could be easily considered FUD, or Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt that was being spread by people who were just as ignorant as myself with these machines. The thought that went into how they were organized was obviously well thought out and made a lot of sense. It was obviously good design not only from a hardware standpoint, but also from a software standpoint.
A few of the things that stood at to me as smart decisions was how the mouse was constructed. While many people may have griped about the lack of a 2nd button on a Mac, computer, the way it was build made it possible to move around a screen quite easily without ever having to let
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