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So, the folks over at Penny Arcade have converted to Mac.

Apple should just buy everything Tycho says about it and make that a pamphlet. Seriously. The man is always as lucid a writer as I've ever known, and in this especially he knows precisely what to say. Everything he writes about this experience has me literally crying out in my seat, 'Yes! Exactly! That's why! That's it!'

"They've made an unbelievably transparent computing experience that I actually look forward to. Their willingness to just slough off the antique parts of the platform, though no doubt turbulent for the faithful, have allowed them to package the most genuinely modern computing product on the market."

Yesssssss.

...And then Gabe weighs in with the straight-up approach.

"It’s just really fucking good and that’s all. I found that any time I had a problem this weekend it was because I was over thinking something. I was looking for some sub menu or a hidden setting when what I wanted to do was right in front of my face."

God damn, but I love them both.

mm.

It's rather nice to rearrange the furniture every once in awhile. It's a little thing, but it clears the mind and changes the feeling of a room.