The Magic Mouse… Ok, this is not about WordPress plugins but might still change a lot our digital lifes – a multitouch mouse! It looks like finally Apple did a big step beyond the Mighty mouse, which proved to be unreliable in the long run (the scrolling ball dies really often).
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I will review it as soon as I receive it from the Apple Store! I’ve never been a fan of the apple mice, except the first ADB mouse which was a masterpiece IMHO…the small round one of the first iMac era was too small for my hands, and the Mighty mouse did never fully convince me. We’ll see soon….meanwhile, somebody else already tested it…

Update – Apple Magic Mouse pros and cons

I got my new apple mouse – it’s very light and small compared to the Logitech MX300 I’ve been using for years. It is maybe a bit too small for my hands, but it is very comfortable. Clicking has a solid feedback, and the touch scroll weel is nice, even if I miss the usual clicking of traditional wheels. The mouse tracks very well but it can’t work on my glass desk without  a mouse pad.

In the end

The new Apple Magic mouse seems a solid product. The only thing that deceives is the swipe function,which I ended up turning off because it kept triggering too easily during my mouse “homing” (when you grab it, after working with two hands on the keyboard).

SSD drives will be a great revolution in computer hardware in 2009….that’s what you will also think in a few minutes.

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Side by side a Late 2008 Macbook (2.4 ghz,  Fujitsu 5400 RPM traditional stock drive, 2 gb ram) with a First Generation Macbook Air (1.8Ghz, 64 Gb stock SSD Drive) doing some common tasks – the short story: Macbook Air is always faster in booting and launching applications. Continue reading →

Yes, another ironic Mac vs PC post.

WordPress bloggers love the Mac. That’s a fact. Why? It’s easy. Because they don’t like to waste their time!

I’ve used Macs and PCs for almost 20 years, so I’ll try to point   out some of the top reasons why you should switch to Mac:

1. Macs don’t need an anti-virus software. And anti-virus software is a BAD thing!
   Think at it….Anti-virus software…is a virus:
   - It slows down a bit your computer, wich will continuously run some virus monitoring processes
   - It wakes up by itself trying to desperately update it’s virus database, slowing down your computer even more and consuming bandwidth (wich is not always free especially if you’re accessing the Internet via mobile modem)
   - It socially spreads itself: every PC user is aware that anti-virus software is necessary.
   - It costs you money every year that could be spent elsewhere. What kind of satisfaction do you get in purchasing an anti-virus?
2. Macs run Windows, if you need to. PCs are not able to run Mac Os.
   Unless you heavily patch MacOs, illegally.
   Mac hardware is very similar to your average PC – but it allows to run natively Windows and Mac Os. If you buy a Mac and end up disliking the Mac Os, no problemo.
3. Macs cost you less money when you need to upgrade them.
   If you know Moore’s Law, you can easily understand that the best way to upgrade your computer….is to replace it with a new one! And selling your one year old Mac will be very easy. Selling your old grey PC, or even your shiny laptop pc, with the   endless combination  of models available,  won’t be as fast, and you’ll recover a lower percentage of the initial investment. I change my Apple laptop every six months since 5 years ago. This costs me around 20% of the retail price. Try to do the same with a PC.
4. Most decent software is available for the Mac OS. Most crap is ony available for PCs.
   If you ever had a chance to see what the average guy’s PC looks like, you might have seen tons of useless search bars, widgets, useless crap applications wich fall into the spyware category.
   The average guy’s Mac is only filled with documents on the desktop.
5. Macs read your PC documents on your external USB drive.
   This makes moving documents very easy.
6. If your Mac has a firewire port, guess what. If you press the T key while booting, the Mac itself turns into an external firewire hard drive.
   This feature is fabulous – very handy for moving huge loads of data from two laptops with just a firewire cable – and it’s there in every single Mac…since almost 10 years. Quite a long time. I’ve yet to see a PC doing this. And if a PC will ever be able to do so, it won’t be YOUR PC. Why? Murphy’s law is always around, you bet it!
7. Macs double up as a media center that – guess what – simply work out of the box.
   Just purchase the 20$ Apple Remote. Connect your Mac to your TV via HDMI, and you just have a free Apple TV! But I wanted to get one, and you might want it as well, if you don’t like to move your Mac around your house.
8. The Mac Os requires NO WEIRD ACTIVATION PROCEDURES,
   and doesn’t make you a single question during the operating system installation process. Strange but true if you’re used to Windows.
9. Less dumb questions.
   I bet you don’t like people who make dumb questions. How can you enjoy the Windows OS? Installing applications on Vista, or removing them, is a much longer process than on a Mac, where dragging an icon is the single thing you need to do in most cases. And what about removing an application? Drag it into the trashcan.
10. Carbon Copy Cloner
    A free Mac app wich can make a bootable copy of your drives – so easy you’ll be surprised coming from Norton Ghost or similar PC software. This means that making a full bootable backup of your drive is an easy task you’ll end up doing much more often, with great effects on your mental health in case of hard disk failure. Remember, hard drives are never 100% reliable, so better be safe than sorry! We forget too often that our beloved machines are not perfect. Have you ever seen Brazil?

I hope this list can be useful to some switchers in order to give it a try! Your mind deserves MacOs, believe me.