Apple surprised a lot of people when they announced the switch to the Intel processor line after years of deriding it.
As a long time Mac user (I bought an original Macintosh 128K/Imagewriter combo for $2500), I thought of how many changes there have been over the years to the Apple "party line."
In the spirit of Orwell, I threw together a fun little Past and Present chart for various technologies that have been ridiculed then embraced. I put the changes in roughly chronological order as I remember them.
Take a walk down memory lane...
|
Sucked then? |
Sucks now? |
| Function keys and numeric keypad |
Yes, only Tools of the Machine need these. |
No, look you can even custom program them! |
| Multi-button mouse |
Yes, a single button is perfect and elegant. |
Kind of. Still sucks to have multi-button mouse, but cool to have single button mouse and hold down CTRL key to change function of mouse button. |
| Slots |
Yes. The two high-speed serial ports are more than enough for any expansion. |
No, NuBus rocks! |
| IDE |
Yes, IDE is slow and lame. Buy SCSI. |
No, IDE is cool. Standard in all Macs. |
| USB |
Yes, stupid slow bus completely useless. Buy firewire. |
No, it's the main interface in the iMac! |
| PC Monitor standard |
Yes, totally low-res lame display standard. Great if you're a primitive. |
No, but you do need an adapter to allow a cool machine to plug into such crappiness. |
| PCI |
Yes, NuBus is way better. |
No, maybe NuBus kinda sucked. Use PCI! |
| TrueType |
No, TrueType is great. We invented it so it's the wave of the future. |
Yes, we've buried the hatchet with Adobe. Only lame Windows people use it. |
| Taskbar |
Yes, Taskbar sucks. Who wants all that clutter on the screen? |
No, taskbar is cool if it has docking graphics. |
| Intel |
Yes, freakin' snail chip. PowerPC is like a supercomputer! Go AltiVec! |
Well, umm, PowerPC was great, but sucks now. We've been looking to transition for the last century. All Macs will be Intel based by 2007. |
| Microsoft |
Yes, they steal all the good Mac ideas. Lamers. |
Ummm. |
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