Mar
18
2007
Mac Users Sure are a Productivity-Minded Lot

I’m now a 100% Mac user (aside from the incident where my mom wanted to show my wife a “how-to-knit” CD-ROM that was Windows-only. I have an iMac in my home office, and i use a MacBook Pro at work. One thing I’m learning about Mac culture is that Mac users are a productivity-minded lot. Contrary to the stereotype that we’re noodling on GarageBand or iMovie all day, Mac users like to get things done quickly, their way.

There are so many Mac apps devoted to this goal. Some examples:

VoodooPad: A personal Wiki tool that lets you do damn near anything.

TextMate: A text/code editor that brings the “customize everything” ethos of Emacs into the modern world.

TextExpander: A tool that lets you create really cool text abbreviations that expand into long chunks of text that you would otherwise repeatedly type out.

Quicksilver: I haven’t even quite figured out what this does, but it’s some sort of major productivity enhancing tool with a cult-like following.

I bring this up now because I came across this great quote from a Mac user stuck working on a PC for a while:

One thing Windows does is make me want to give up earlier. I actually just don’t care if I can’t figure out a good way to do something. This is an exciting new feeling - I just give up and get back to work, and each time, I feel a little more like a real grownup. You know, how you feel after all your youthful dreams have died.

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