{"id":270,"date":"2004-02-27T23:51:28","date_gmt":"2004-02-28T03:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2004-02-27T23:51:28","modified_gmt":"2004-02-28T03:51:28","slug":"os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, my new PowerBook arrived today, and this is the first post that I am making with it. (I’m using ecto<\/a> as my blogging client).
\nI was a Mac user for a long time, from c. 1991 to 1998; I switched to Windows because I wanted to have a really small<\/em> laptop, 3 lbs or less — which didn’t (still doesn’t) exist for the Mac. But I missed the elegance and simplicity of the Macintosh aesthetic. Especially as OS X was developed, I felt that I was missing out on something I really wanted<\/em> (though arguably — or just say, obviously — I didn’t need<\/em> it, given that Windows XP does just about everything you need, albeit much more clunkily).
\nSo finally, after looking at the state of my finances, and convincing myself through specious arguments that I could afford the additional charge on my credit card, I took the plunge.
\nThe 12″ PowerBook is still too heavy (4.6 lbs) but I’m determined to carry it around with me everywhere anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, my new PowerBook arrived today, and this is the first post that I am making with it. (I’m using ecto<\/a> as my blogging client).
\nI was a Mac user for a long time, from c. 1991 to 1998; I switched to Windows because I wanted to have a really small<\/em> laptop, 3 lbs or less — which didn’t (still doesn’t) exist for the Mac. But I missed the elegance and simplicity of the Macintosh aesthetic. Especially as OS X was developed, I felt that I was missing out on something I really wanted<\/em> (though arguably — or just say, obviously — I didn’t need<\/em> it, given that Windows XP does just about everything you need, albeit much more clunkily).
\nSo finally, after looking at the state of my finances, and convincing myself through specious arguments that I could afford the additional charge on my credit card, I took the plunge.
\nThe 12″ PowerBook is still too heavy (4.6 lbs) but I’m determined to carry it around with me everywhere anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}