{"id":1613,"date":"2002-07-19T12:14:20","date_gmt":"2002-07-19T12:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2002-07-19T12:14:20","modified_gmt":"2002-07-19T12:14:20","slug":"more_apple_thou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1613","title":{"rendered":"More Apple Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Jenny is thinking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theshiftedlibrarian.com\/2002\/07\/19.html#a2678\">possibly switching to a Mac<\/a>.<\/P><\/p>\n<p \/><BLOCKQUOTE><P>&#8230; Call me <A href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1040-943519.html?legacy=cnet&#038;tag=pt.rss..feed.ne_20139455\">stupid<\/A> if you want to, but I had a bad experience with Macs at my first job, and I&#8217;ve just gone along with Windows ever since (even though I have bad experiences with Windows, too).<\/P><\/p>\n<p \/><P>However, I&#8217;m at a point where I don&#8217;t want to upgrade to Windows XP, and I don&#8217;t really want to re-format my hard drive to upgrade to Windows 2000, which will only take me so far anyway. So for the first time, I will actually consider a Mac the next time I buy a computer. Especially after this week&#8217;s announcements. &#8230; <\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n<p \/><P>I think this is Apple&#8217;s advantage right now.  M$ is doing a lot of things that people aren&#8217;t happy with.  People are nervous about the whole DRM thing and Apple is mostly staying away from that (we&#8217;ll just ignore Roxio Toast for now). At the same time, I think Macs are finally worth looking at again.  There was a looong time there between college and last year where I didn&#8217;t think they were.  Apple always seemed just a little behind the ball.  Now they seem to be working on building a better one.<\/P><\/p>\n<p \/><P>(I&#8217;ve gotta settle down on this whole pushing people to Apple thing :))<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny is thinking about possibly switching to a Mac. &#8230; Call me stupid if you want to, but I had a bad experience with Macs at my first job, and I&#8217;ve just gone along with Windows ever since (even though I have bad experiences with Windows, too). However, I&#8217;m at a point where I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}