Yongfook is a web producer based in Tokyo

Posted on March 28th, 2008 at 2:20 am

That also goes for web designers, app builders and all of yous building stuff for the web.

Why?

I think I can sum my answer up in a single picture:

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Masochistic, Full Size Version

For those who don’t know what they are looking at, that’s Mac OS X. I’ve got Safari running, Firefox in the background and for the observant I’m also listening to KISS with a bit of Bon Jovi queued up to go. Oh yeah and in front of that I’m running WINDOWS XP (!!) and WINDOWS VISTA (!!!1), seamlessly integrated into my mac operating system, running at a near-native click, with IE6 and IE7 open simultaneously (I have Mac Safari and Mac FF already running). If I really wanted to I could have Windows Safari and Windows FF running too. And Opera, and Camino and whatever other obscure browser you want. I could also load up Ubuntu simultaneously too and see whatever those weird Linux guys see when they browse the web. If I wanted. Then I could access the same website across all current and past generation browsers at exactly the same moment, and cause a rip in the space-time continuum, destroying the universe as we know it and paving the way for the coming of KRaaagon.

It’s quite simply the most amazing, seamless, one-box-fits-all-forever-and-ever-amen setup a web developer or designer could ask for. You have the beautiful interface, yet no-nonsense simplicity of OS X, the power of linux command-line at your fingertips, and then on top of that the ability to install any operating system you damn well please and to run it simultaneously over the top of OS X, using virtualisation software such as Parallels.

Sorry, I’m just having one of those “holy crap I love my mac” moments.

So what’s your setup? Are you a web developer using Windows (Linux dudes I can cut some slack for, you’re all basically future mac users anyway) and if so do you agree that you are a total freaking idiot? Your thoughts, please.

heh.