Dear Mac readers, I know you because you are still using Safari as a browser (~ 1.5% of the traffic). I apologize for this post but…I couldn’t lie ;-)

Lot of buzz and emails concerning the coming new Mac OS X on 29th April. Also concerning the Dashboard. To my point of view, nothing new under the sun (sure, there are other interesting innovations!). Konfabulator does the same (excepted the cool waves effect) since months (Mac and PC). I’m using, as a registered user (yeay), Konfabulator on my laptop/workstation under WinXP since November 2004. Great tool for geek :-)

Dashboard of Mac OS X

My current desktop under XP, with Konfabulator

I must say I am *NOT* a fan of Mac at all, and this, since years. In the 80s, I was already using a Commodore 64, instead of an Apple II. Sorry for that:-)
Russell summarized my feelings very well (read his post completely to know what he is thinking about Mac!):

The Mac bothers me for all the same reasons it bothers others out there. It’s a closed system, running on proprietary hardware which always seems to be doomed to be both more expensive, and half the speed of the PC world. That and having to learn another OS and it’s foibles bugs me a bit. I’ve been using Windows for over a decade, so figuring out problems is second nature.