Yes, it is true.
I will be buying a PowerBook 17 as soon as my tax credit comes in by direct deposit (I only wish it didn’t take as long as it does).
And thanks to the ADC and the fact that I am a full-time student, I will be paying 20% under MSRP, which actually makes it affordable. I will be signing up for my ADC student membership pretty soon, which of course comes with Xcode tools, which I will try to use to see how Cocoa is as a programming API - I’ve heard it is extremely easy to use (Objective C sounds more like my cup of tea programming-wise, anyway), and I might not mind trying to figure it out for myself a little bit.
Ken will laugh, seeing as how I’ve never been very good at coding anyway, and didn’t study it like he ended up doing, but I’m kind of looking for something to be doing this summer, so I figured I’d grab an O’Reilly book and try to hammer at it a little bit and see what I can learn about Obj-C.
I have a new desktop background at home to celebrate.
I saw it and couldn’t get it out of my brain, so I figured it had to go up at home, on my trusty Wintel box.
It struck me yesterday that I’m not really a “switcher,” per se, I’m more just actually coming home to my original computing platform of choice. In the Mac OS 7.5-9.0 days, I wasn’t a big fan of Macs. They were slow, bloated, and didn’t really work the way they used to. My parents had a Mac OS 8-era (later upgraded to OS 9) Power Mac, and I hated the thing. It was really slow, it crashed a lot more than I remember my old System 7 LCII crashing, and it was a pain in the neck to get back up and running when it did go down. Worse, the OS was suffering from feature creep and a growing list of helper apps that didn’t really do anything to help matters.
But I r1k3y OS X.