With a title like this I’ll bet you’re expecting some rapid evangelical Apple-activist rant on one of the many themes you’ve heard time and time again. You know, Macs having fewer viruses, having a superior UI, etc. And granted, I do very much love working in my Apple world. Whenever I have to “slum” in Windows, and especially if I have to work on someone else’s computer where a zillion little apps and utilities have been installed (willing or not) by the owner’s ISP or Real Player or some anti-virus software, and where the IE toolbar has been polluted with half a dozen ROWS of little controls by Google or Microsoft or whatever… ack! I want to pull my hair out.
But all that notwithstanding, I wanted to blog about something that few people—even few Mac users—are aware of: the magic that’s “under the hood”.
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