Unix is a 40-year-old technology built from the very start to be a multi-user, secure, network operating system.Ģ) Many geeks I encounter still do not know that Macs can run Windows natively (which means no emulation needed). The Mac OS has been unix-based now for 8 years (Mac OS X, say “Mac O-S-ten”), and it’s a whole different animal… stable as all get-out - crashes are rare –and secure to a point Windows has not approached. There are a few important considerations why:ġ) Many PC-heads are stuck in the old days of Mac before Jobs came back – when Apple’s OS 9 was showing its age. The trend is favorable to Apple, but PC geeks usually don’t “get it,” and they probably never will.
Macs are ‘cool,’ and the number of kids who buy a computer for college who *have a choice in the selection* overwhelmingly favor Macintosh. I am the network manager at a high school (1,350 students) which has been transitioning to Macs over the past 5 years, and I agree with your assessment. Dissenting calls and e-mails rolled in, but so did this e-mail: I noted on the program yesterday that it seems to me that the overwhelming majority of under-25 computer purchasers who have a choice chose Macs.
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