Kyrie Eleison

KYRIE ELEISON! LUCIFER IS RISEN!

Nail in the coffin. Apple has conveniently given me a more precise reason to point to in abandoning this sinking ship.

Granted, there have been many things in the past, OS X for one, but never was there anything - even the switch to Intel architechture - that was so offensive as this move.

I'm done! Thanks!

As is often the case with great marginilized products, they only get worse the less they become marginilized. I'm blogging from an iMac purchased in the previous century. This is because the bright and shiny new one I bought in Autumn 2004 became helplessly crippled by January 2005. It has sat here with every appearance of a software issue that I, in all of my infinite computer repair effort, have been unable to fix for a year. I have two versions of OS X installed that I switch between to do things like update my iPod (they've eliminated compatibility for my old computer) or burn a DVD, or, indeed, to hear sound. It's an odd Mac koan that I haven't experienced since the days of System 7.5 (the whole of System 7 comprising the tipping point in terms of Apple's software beginning to blow completely, with a brief sunny spot around System 9.1).

Yeah, it's my own silliness that I haven't had it repaired, but you see, I am what you might call a traditionalist Mac user. Barring serious hardware issues, we fix our computers ourselves with little programs like ResEdit. OS X made that kind of thing infinitely harder, and now with Intel architechture and Windows software, what the hell is the point?

Why not just buy a PC? It's come to that! Apples have always been ludicrously expensive, and now they want, what, to be expensive and pretty PC's?

I'm not having it. I'm going to make my own computer out of old Volvo parts. And it's going to run on Linux.