You do not know the power of the dark side

So... I got a Mac. A MacBook, to be precise (the white one). I wasn't planning on it, but when I went into the shop it was on clearance (it was the display model, in fact), making it the cheapest laptop in the place even though its specs were on a par with the higher-end jobs. So I bought it.

To be honest, most of this Apple thing seems to be marketing. It's a good laptop. It works well. It is not particularly "more intuitive" than Windows. Nor does it "just work" - well, it does if you only want to use the basic applications, which are very nice indeed, but installing anything new involves disk images and buggering around dragging icons into folders etc etc etc.

I'm picking up all the keyboard differences pretty quickly, though.

One thing did occur to me. For all that Mac evangelists crow about their computers' superiority to PCs... do they really exist any more?

I mean, what is a PC? The definition is a bit hazy nowadays, but could roughly be described as "a computer able to run Windows"... or something. What's a Mac? Er... well, it's what Apple make. But what if Apple made a PC? Would that be a Mac? No. Probably not, anyway. A Mac would be something that runs Mac OS...

Except the current Macs don't run Mac OS, they run OS X, which is Unix. So you've got an Apple computer that runs Unix or Windows. It's basically just an Apple PC with a fancy marketing campaign, only one mouse button and a class action suit over the LCD display.

GarageBand is cool, though.