Macintoshes kick-ass! No, not really... In high school I was the biggest advocate of the Macintosh. With a Macintosh I was able to format my papers with titles, different fonts, multiple columns, and images. I printed out in best quality, the double resolution mode on the Imagewriter that put normal dot-matrix output to shame. The Mac was fun, it had excellent quality games like Dark Castle. It never crashed once. It was easy to program. It was elegant. Back then, I told everyone to get Macs, they were the way of the future. Except in the future, Macs suck. I think it all started going to hell around the Mac II when the color and the new capabilities just didn't fit into the original Mac vision and add-ons and plug-ins started eroding the Macs inherent elegance. And at the same time, evolutionary changes like multiple-mouse buttons were scoffed at; a problem of resting on your laurels. The original Mac had a excellent design, except maybe for the fact that it was not adaptable. A case of a strong vision that limited its future. My pathetic "Ten Years From Now" projection in the high school yearbook was something along the lines of "Still trying to convince people that Macs are better than PCs". I jumped ship after college. It's been ten years. The only Mac people left nowadays are the graphic designers. Footnote: how did I ever live without the delete key? posted by danchanJuly 28, 2001 at 15:45 [ e ]