Hunter Davies tries out a MacBook
Bit of fun for Saturday morning. Head on over to The Guardian’s often-excellent ‘dork talk’ column, currently guest-written by various tech (and non-tech) luminaries whilst Stephen Fry gets back in action following some nasty injury or other, for a great piece by Hunter Davies on giving up his Amstrad PCW9512 (I had one of those!!!!) for an Apple MacBook laptop.
As a Mac user who came from PCs I think it’s really easy to get complacent and assume Mac OS X is the near-pinnacle of UI design. As Hunter points out in his piece, what could be easier than a button labelled ‘exit’ on the keyboard to get out of a program, or another button to ‘print’ just like that? My favourite bit is the idea of calling up your daughter to ask her to Google something for you - awesome.