I think that was a PDP4 we had at McNally- the one with the 100 pound external memory expansion chassis…4 kilobytes of core RAM 😉

I don’t see that the Macintosh OS is that much better than Windows. Different- absolutely. More elegant- in many ways, yes, but that is arguable. I find Windows fairly intuitive after fifteen or twenty years of use. Some things on the Mac strike me as weird: like the persistent “you really only need one mouse button…and an Apple key” silliness.

I like my MacBook Pro, and so far it is working pretty well. Would I have bought it as my only computer? That would depend on what I was using it for.

Would I recommend a Mac to my Mom as easier to use than Windows? Nope. There are a bajillion weird and wonderful option key combinations and strange concepts like files that behave like hard drives that make it rather hard for me to believe that a “neophyte” user would find it any easier.

For someone who was tech-savy and has a pretty clear list of things they want to do, and who understands the drawbacks of not using the “most popular OS in the world”…the Mac and OS X definitely has some upside.