{"id":156,"date":"2003-12-19T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-19T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/diary\/200312200038.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T16:00:00","slug":"isnt-that-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/19\/isnt-that-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#8217;t that beautiful?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/images\/diary\/20031220-apple.gif\" alt=\"apple logo\" \/>Just by looking at this, don&#8217;t you feel like getting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\">Mac<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been lurking for a G5 for a week now, since I went to the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/retail\/jp\/ginza\/\">Apple store<\/a> in Ginza&#8230; They look so nice and now that the kernel is Unix based, I really feel like getting one!<\/p>\n<p>After all, the only thing I&#8217;m doing on my computer lately is reading my mails, browsing, working on my pictures and from time to time, programming. Everything is now possible with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\">Mozilla<\/a> for mail and browsing (or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firebird\/\">Firebird<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/thunderbird\/\">Thunderbird<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/photoshop\/main.html\">Photoshop<\/a>, which has even been optimized to run on Apple, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c1dslr.com\/\">C1 DSLR<\/a>, which has just been released for Mac to convert Canon RAW pictures, and obviously, perl, ssh and other Unix tools will be available with the system \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see anything that will keep me away from switching now!<\/p>\n<p>I just need to figure out which configuration is the most suitable to my needs (and to my wallet!)&#8230; Right now, I may be a bit greedy but the Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/1-800-MY-APPLE\/WebObjects\/AppleStore.woa\/70403\/wo\/nE58px0Eu8lz2ey3zKU14RWUwok\/1.0.7.1.0.5.25.1.2.19.3.1.1.0?49,10\">G5 dual-processor 2GHz<\/a> looks awesome&#8230;<br \/> I&#8217;ll then think about getting a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/1-800-MY-APPLE\/WebObjects\/AppleStore.woa\/70403\/wo\/nE58px0Eu8lz2ey3zKU14RWUwok\/0.0.7.1.0.5.21.1.2.1.3.0.0.1.0\">screen<\/a>, maybe the 20&#8243; or the 23&#8243;: I was so impressed by the sharpness of the image and the vivid colours!<\/p>\n<p>raaahhh&#8230; I&#8217;ve got to get one! I&#8217;ve got to get one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just by looking at this, don&#8217;t you feel like getting a Mac? I&#8217;ve been lurking for a G5 for a week now, since I went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}