My Mac problem: Too many and too alike
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Here in the Asay home we have a growing problem: Each year we add a Mac to the fold, making it increasingly more difficult to tell them apart. My wife, eldest daughter, and I each have MacBook Pros. Soon, no doubt, my nine-year old son will get one. I love the way the Macs look, but it becomes a problem when they all look the same.
That's at home. Imagine what it's like at work, where we have scads of MacBook Pros.
Yes, we could litter the laptops with stickers, but that's a bit like sacrilege (though some disagree).
It's much easier in PC land, where various shades of ugliness help to distinguish criminally ugly Dells from nice-try Toshibas. ThinkPads are the only PCs worth buying, but they suffer from the same defect that MacBook Pros do: They all look the same.
Today this may not be an issue for you. But with the Mac poised to grab eight percent of the desktop/laptop market, and set to double over the next three years according to Gartner, it's a problem that you, too, may be fortunate to have.
Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay. 



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It's like visiting a church for the first time and getting cornered by an Amway associate.
Is the eight percent that they're poised to grab based on actual users or online users?
CNET, I would like for your organization to a have a blog about "The business and politics of open source" not some ******* talk about how a proprietary OS is better then another proprietary OS.
Cnet, you gotta do something about dumb stuff like this.
By your own words, it seems your heart is with the Mac, not open source. If that's true, perhaps you should give up writing about open source and go with what you really like.
And why write that ThinkPads are the only PCs worth buying? If that was intended to stir up controversy, you succeeded. But making such sensationalist statements demeans you. Your personal taste is not an objective standard, and I for one would far rather have a PC than a Mac. (If the PC runs Linux, so much the better).
Making link-bait statements may get you some more page views at first, but serious readers hoping to learn about open source will get discouraged and go elsewhere. Then you will be left with the trolls you complained about earlier. That would be a great loss for the open source community. Please think about that.
Have a happy Fourth!
Either:
a) Put a sticker on it or something similar
b) Admit you're creating this problem yourself by not putting a sticker on them.
In what situation exactly are you getting them all mixed up? Do you leave all your family Macs on a single table at home? Putting them all in a single bag as you leave the house?
This is probably the most pointless article I've read on C|Net in a while. I look forward to your next exciting instalment about how you have trouble because all the N95's in the office look the same.
This comment isn't meant as a Troll, don't reply to it if you think it is one. I just want to express my opinion that this article is really pointless and silly.
If you can give me a good example where this could actually ever be a real problem, I'd love to hear it.
Tim
- by swissfondue1 July 5, 2008 12:59 AM PDT
- Etch a design on the cover. Looks like a snazzy tattoo on aluminum Books.
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