iCuteness

Ah the second new love of my life, this is really sad this one. Terribly terribly sad. Aaaaanyway, I never used to think of apple much, in fact no one did in the UK, especially in the 80’s and 90’s. I’m not even sure they bothered to release a lot of their early stuff here. I’ve never once in my life seen an Apple II. Even the mac was pretty much a non-event, whilst in america they’ve consistently enjoyed a small but perfectly formed user base, over here in the UK you would have to travel a long way to bump into one. I first used a mac during a stupidly basic and short lived DTP class in college in the mid 90’s. I’m not 100% certain but i think it was running System 7, and the machine was horribly underpowered, didn’t leave me with a good impression at all and since then I didn’t even go near to a mac for going on 8 years. The original iMac changed things slightly over here, well at least they caught your eye, sitting in the dark recesses of the local department store, but still, most people didn’t know anyone who actually owned one. Of course, the iPod has gradually changed all this and Apple have probably enjoyed a bigger surge in the UK than anywhere else considered how badly they were doing pre-ipod. Up until last month, the only Apple product I had was a shuffle. But look at all the Apple boxes i’ve got now!

So here it is, my cute little iBook, it’s so huggable. Just look how sweet it looks next to my big ol CRT.

I usually lounge around in the family room with the iBook, but on those occasions when i want to do something on a bigger screen, or when i need to do some PC centric dev work I take the iBook upstairs and plug it into this KVM switch, the iBook immediately switches to screen spanning/sharing and i can quickly switch between the PC and the mac. Unfortunately what you can’t do is switch say from the mac to the PC to check on something such as a progress bar and then immediately switch back, you have to wait about 10 seconds before it lets you do another switch. Maybe its to stop you from switching in quick succession and breaking something?