I do loves me a nice operating system. I'm going to fire this up in a few days, and you will, no doubt, be hearing more about how and why I think Windows sucks.

I've had some time to play with, and get under the hood, with my new iMac today, and I must say...it is a whole different ballgame. The Mac operating system is basically the Catdaddy GUI built on top of *NIX. How much can you do at once? All you want or could ever need is there. Kind of like a good woman.

vi is there. As most of you know, no vi...no deal.

While I was at it, I snagged a 850 GB external backup hard drive...only for backup...to use with Apple Time Machine. Snapshots on the fly. Why not? CD's and Memory Sticks are good for the small stuff (like moving stuff to a laptop for travel), but if you have to depend on 'em for a restore...you're fucked. I know, I know, I know,,,you can FTP or SFTP all that data between machines, but that is a pain in the ass, and the times they are a changing.

I never thought I would say this...but I'm down with Apple. The connectivity to remote *NIX databases is slick.

MAC OS is so far superior to Windows...it ain't even funny. Plus, the damn thing boots in 15 seconds. I kid you not. You can also run Windows inside OS X...virtual machine...no dual boot nonsense...SWEET!

I'm telling you, this iMac stuff is pretty cool.

Dashboard Widgets make life easier...