{"id":44,"date":"2008-07-16T16:33:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T23:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/?p=44"},"modified":"2008-07-16T16:34:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T23:34:16","slug":"the-move-to-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/2008\/07\/16\/the-move-to-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"The move to Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve never been one of those “Macs are stupid” or “PCs suck” kind of guys.\u00a0 I’ve always had an appreciation for the Mac design ethic but I’ve also never really appreciated that the way they keep their systems so ‘easy’ is that they so adamantly control every aspect of the user experience.\u00a0 This in particular has always struck me as a little contradictory – I mean, Apple launched the Mac with an anti-Orwellian campaign<\/a> and yet here they are keeping a tight fist on the Apple experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That all being said, The main reason I’ve avoided Apple products in the past is their price.\u00a0 For the same price as a Mac desktop or Laptop I was able to build a screaming PC – for $100 less I was able to get a Creative Labs MP3 player with the same specs as an Ipod.<\/p>\n

But eventually I caved and got an Ipod and of course loved it.<\/p>\n

So, when it came time to buy a laptop computer, I decided on a MacBook Pro.\u00a0 This is actually the first laptop that I’ve ever owned (the rest being company machines) and I really like it.\u00a0 My main reason for buying the Mac was that I figured if I get another computer through work someday, it will more-than-likely be a PC, so I might as well supplement that experience with the Mac.\u00a0 But since loading up photos, music, applications, and preferences, I’ve really started to like it.<\/p>\n

.. So much so that I decided to go whole hog.\u00a0 I’ve spent the last few days converting all of my files over to my new Apple Time Capsule – which acts as my wireless network router and backup storage device.\u00a0 I can’t believe how well it works!\u00a0 I’ve never – NEVER been able to get two computers in my apartment to talk to each other before – until now.\u00a0 So now I can easily transfer files between machines – and even share a printer.\u00a0 And having the disk drive in the system means that I can wirelessly access my files from anywhere in my apartment (thus negating the limitation of the 200gb laptop hard disk).\u00a0 But of course, being Apple, it doesn’t stop there.\u00a0 I can access this hard drive from any internet connection – meaning I can keep just the files I want on the laptop (read: the files I have room for) and know that I can still access anything as long as I can connect to the internet.<\/p>\n

It’s going so well in fact, that I’ve also got Apple TV running on my stereo\/television.\u00a0 Again, this solved a problem that I’ve been toying around with since I bought an Audiotron<\/a> so many years ago. I can now stream my music (in good quality) easily to my Stereo – but in addition I can watch photo slideshows on my TV.\u00a0 And I can even queue up podcasts (audio or video) and try to stay better on top of all of that content that I’m downloading…<\/p>\n

I never thought I’d dive in so fully to the Mac experience, but I’m glad I have.\u00a0 iPhone here I come \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve never been one of those “Macs are stupid” or “PCs suck” kind of guys.\u00a0 I’ve always had an appreciation for the Mac design ethic but I’ve also never really appreciated that the way they keep their systems so ‘easy’ is that they so adamantly control every aspect of the user experience.\u00a0 This in particular … <\/p>\n

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