{"id":122,"date":"2006-02-04T20:52:50","date_gmt":"2006-02-05T03:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2006-02-04T20:52:50","modified_gmt":"2006-02-05T03:52:50","slug":"mac-is-the-new-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/02\/04\/mac-is-the-new-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac is the new black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I shutdown my sleek, stylish, light, and functional Gateway 200 ARC at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victrolacoffee.com\/\">hipster coffee shop<\/a> around the corner from my house I noticed something; my Windows\/Intel box was the &#8220;odd duck&#8221; in the coffee shop.  Little iBooks, Powerbooks, iPods were prolific.  It just then dawned on me that more of my peers (developers, techies, programmers) are using Macs as well.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the irony:  I&#8217;m thrilled and bummed all at the same time.  I&#8217;m thrilled that the hipster masses are rejecting homogenous Windows.  I&#8217;m bummed because I&#8217;m partial to Linux, NOT Mac!<\/p>\n<p>I guess on the upside, my preference for Linux places me in the counter culture; still.<\/p>\n<p><i>Disclosure: I boot Windows for Wireless\/Dual Montior support.  However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\">VMWare Workstation<\/a> allows me to boot a &#8220;developers OS&#8221; when I want to do some real work.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I shutdown my sleek, stylish, light, and functional Gateway 200 ARC at the hipster coffee shop around the corner from my house I noticed something; my Windows\/Intel box was the &#8220;odd duck&#8221; in the coffee shop. Little iBooks, Powerbooks, iPods were prolific. It just then dawned on me that more of my peers (developers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}