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I was talking with the herring gulls the other day—not talking likeKing George III did to trees, or our British heir apparent does to hisplants. I mean real conversations about topics we both understand andcontribute to. In the case of the gulls, their subjects are morerestricted than the builders I’ve had working on my house recently.They limit it to “Give me food,” or, “I am eating, get out my face.”Come to think of it, that is about the extent of the builders’ chattertoo.

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When they first adopted us, this pair of gulls was barely a few monthsold, all fluffy and covered in juvenile spots. They fluttered theirwings, tapped on the windows, and soon got me trained to cook extra foodto fill their beaks. It took them only a goldfish or two from my pondbefore they learned they didn’t like the taste, and if they did eat myfish they got no food from me for a week. Or until their plaintivemewing and tapping on the window got to me.

Now that they are four-year-olds, have lost their spots, and look veryhandsome in their adult plumage, these birds and I can hold stiltedconversations. They are hampered by their lack of vocal skills, andthey’re usually limited to wanting food or expressing appreciationabout having it. Obviously the gulls are well able to fend forthemselves but choose to stay around my garden in our symbioticrelationship. I feed them, they give me pleasure, and they use up anyfood leftovers and stale biscuits—though spaghetti or roast potatoesare preferred.

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On this particular day they alerted me to a goldfish they were standingguard over, left on the lawn by a crow that has taken a liking to thefish. The crow has been the scourge of the garden for two years, flyingaround with his magpie pal, bullying the other birds, searching amongthe rocks for frogs and eating my goldfish. OK, so the gull’s warningwas a bit like Flipper’s whistling being interpreted as “The kid isstuck down the mine-shaft,” or was that Skippy the Bush Kangaroo? Inany case, the fish was still alive, a bit battered, but having survivedthe experience.

Being a fish out of water just about sums up my experience withWindows. I have never owned a PC that uses Microsoft operating systems.Any use of Windows and its derivatives is limited to cash pointmachines and searching the local library’s catalogue. When I gavelessons in QuarkXPress and Photoshop on PCs using Windows, I wasn’t inthe driving seat so didn’t have to get to grips with right clicking,start buttons, and goodness knows what else. It helped to know thekeyboard shortcuts. My only other Windows experience was running earlyemulators on my Mac, and of course then I was really running a Macprogram so it doesn’t count.

When Apple announced its move to Intel chips, my first thought wasthat it would mean dual booting Macs, getting the best of both worlds:rock solid Mac OS X and all those lovely games I can ask for asbirthday presents. Then it was announced that the Intel Macs would notbe able to run Windows natively. Whether this was a bit of FUD from Apple is debatable. Or didthey just mean that Vista wouldn’t run when/if it is finally released?In any case, it didn’t take hackers long to prove Apple wrong, andsuddenly Apple released their own software enabling Windows booting onthe new Macs. Is this a good thing or not?

From my own point of view, when I saw how much a copy of Windowsactually costs, I cannot see any need to buy it. In the UK, Windows XPis around £120 (though prices seem to vary from £58 to over £200).For £249, I could purchase a Dell laptop that comes with its own,pre-installed copy. Microsoft has pretty much bottled-up Windowspiracy, but it might be legal to use that copy on my Mac and run Linuxon the PC. Another laptop is always useful even if only to act as a Webbrowser and word processor.

If it is very easy to install Windows on the new Macs, what is to stopsoftware companies such as Adobe from only making a Windows version oftheir products, possibly bundling it with a cut-down copy of Windows?Why should Mac-only developers limit themselves to a potential 5% ofthe world computer market rather than the whole? Of course, the 5% whobought Macs did so because of the operating system and not the computerit runs on, so they would have no wish to switch to Windows. ConsequentlyAdobe, etc, will have to continue making native Mac software or losethat market. But if that did happen, what then for Mac OS X itself?Apple is, after all, a hardware company whose computer section isdwarfed by the emerging new technologies of iPods and who knows whatelse from their ultra-secretive design department.

On the other hand, bench-testing head-to-heads with Macs runningWindows up against PCs designed to do that from the start, show theMacs are very quick machines. Jason Cross at ExtremeTech describes hislong-term search for the perfect Windows notebook. He wanted a computerthat will run Windows, with a fast CPU, plenty of RAM, optical drive,and good graphics processor. He has just found it, a MacBook Pro.Unsurprisingly, he has started to prefer Mac OS X over Windows XP,though like many Windows émigrés he is still wanting a multi-buttonedmouse—something I find strange because I have turned off all thebuttons on my Mighty Mouse to make it a one-button mouse with scrollball.

The new dual-core PowerBooks and iMacs seem as fast as our desktoptwin-processor G5s. What price for those when the pro end of Apple’scomputer lineup moves to Intel? Usually I have a buyer or two waitingto purchase my old machines at about half the price I paid for themthree or four years before. Maybe not so when extremely rapid Macs willbe available, which means I won’t be able to afford to upgrade.Colleagues who have got new Mac laptops tell me the Finder is runningat the fast speed it had under Mac OS 8. A mixed blessing perhaps, asmemories return of folders lost “somewhere” when accidentally droppedwhile moving them around, and duplicated duplicates when I miss theprogress bar that remains on the screen for exactly eight nanoseconds.

Apple Macintosh computers have always been a slightly risky choice tomake, being off from the mainstream and up against rivals including IBMand Microsoft. The company has weathered some hard times, with theintroduction of the original Mac itself almost bringing the company toits knees because of its price, lack of RAM, expandability, andsoftware. Now, Apple is making another about-turn as they change chipsyet again. Could this be the change too far? Developers who have onlyjust adapted to Mac OS X may have a big job ahead to make theirsoftware ready for MacIntels. If those computers are able to runWindows, what is the point of making two versions available for thesame hardware?

The answer is that users like the Mac OS X environment and the Mac-onlyapplications that run in it. With Apple’s switch to Intel processors,the best computer system in the world will be the Mac. It will be theonly one designed to run both Mac and Windows software, especially asApple is likely to keep one step ahead of hackers trying to run Mac OSX on non-Apple computers. I just hope that it stays that way or elseI’ll be a complete newbie and will have to learn a new computer systemfrom scratch, something I will be reluctant to do.

Copyright © 2006 Mark Tennent, mtennent@atpm.com.

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