{"id":767,"date":"2006-04-07T11:13:54","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T11:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guyweb.co.uk\/2006\/04\/07\/switching-to-mac\/"},"modified":"2006-04-07T11:13:54","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T11:13:54","slug":"switching-to-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/2006\/04\/07\/switching-to-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching to Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"

The incentive to switch from Windows to Mac OS<\/a> is stronger than ever. My problem was that working of a Mac was never a decent viable option for me. Back in the days of working in newspaper publishing I’d develop sites on my original blue iMac and test them on IE5\/Mac. Occasionally I’d test them on other browsers like Opera and iCab but there wasn’t a lot else around back then (six years ago). Certainly, no Safari or Camino to test in.<\/p>\n

The problem was that in comparison to other browsers at the time on Windows, IE\/Mac was the king. It was the best at doing web standards. Sites looked great in it. I loved developing for that browser! The problem would come when a customer would complain that a site looked a bit odd to them. You see, the majority of people were using Windows PCs running IE4 or 5 which realy mangled any site using semi-advanced CSS. To avoid such complaints I had to hack the site code to make the sites look right on these horrible browsers. In order to do that I needed to see the sites on a Windows PC. You could also use a PC emulator (Virtual PC) but it was way too slow and irritating to use. So I got the company to swap my iMac for a PC. I then moved jobs – to The Open University where at the time their policy was to only support Windows PCs. So I got a PC by default. And that’s the way it’s been ever since.<\/p>\n

But now there’s finally a way for me to buy back into Mac OS<\/a> whilst also using Windows – out of one machine. And not just any machine but one that’s well designed, well built and doesn’t crash all the time. OK so I’d need to get a new dual core Intel Mac to get this to happen and my pocket doesn’t currently stretch to that. But for sure, the next desktop PC I get at home or work will be such a Mac. The next laptop I buy will be the most inexpensive iBook – the 12″ powerpc version. No Windows ability on that but then that’s not really the point of me owning such a thing as I previously noted.<\/p>\n

In my opinion Mac running Windows is a great step forwards. Excellent news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The incentive to switch from Windows to Mac OS is stronger than ever. My problem was that working of a Mac was never a decent viable option for me. Back in the days of working in newspaper publishing I’d develop sites on my original blue iMac and test them on IE5\/Mac. Occasionally I’d test them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27,87],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-gadgets","tag-web-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}