Top 10 List of New Year’s Resolutions You Should Not Stick To

by Gregory Ng Dec 30, 2003

It’s that time of year again and at AppleMatters we stay true to our mission—to bring you insightful articles on the happenings of our favorite brand, Apple Computers. But to try and pass this article off as something insightful is a gosh darn lie. So I am proud to present to you the Top 10 List of New Year’s resolutions you should not stick to.

10. I will continue to use my Powermac 9600
Please people, it’s time to embrace the power of the “G” chips. With the power of the G3, G4, and G5 available in machines for very reasonable prices, you don’t have an excuse anymore.

9. I will continue to use Classic
With the release of Quark 6, in my opinion, there are no more good reasons to use classic. And if you one of those people hanging on to classic because your $70 scanner doesn�t support OSX you have bigger problems.

8. I will continue to discount the eMac
Am I the only person who thinks people are missing out on a phenomenal opportunity? $800 for a G4? You people need to wake up.

7. I will continue to use MP3
AAC is the new format. Stop wasting your time, your sound quality, and your iPod space on MP3s. Too lazy to re-rip everything? Do it now before you dig yourself into a bigger hole.

6. I will continue to use Internet Explorer
Safari is king in Apple Nation. And with a built-in Google search bar you can’t go wrong. Besides, AppleMatters looks better on Safari.

5. I will continue to use my non-iPod MP3 player
If this applies to you, you should stop coming to this website.

4. I will continue to use Font Book
This software is a piece of junk (at least for now). Stop using it until Apple fixes it.

3. I will continue to use iChat just for text messaging
Buy an iSight and take advantage of this amazing, free service brought to you by our friends at Apple.

2. I will continue to use a Mac at home and a PC at work
You are a two-timer and you are not doing yourself any favors. You are constantly pissed off at your machine at work and let’s face it: you are hurting your productivity. Demand a Mac at work or re-evaluate your profession.

1. I will continue to read AppleMatters but not comment on the articles
Some of the most successful articles at AppleMatters have been ones on which a healthy discussion occurred in the comment boards. If you feel strongly positively or negatively, speak up.

Here’s to a great New Year!

Comments

  • As for #2, I’m in the process of re-evaluating.  As for #1, well, here you go.

    cpbjr had this to say on Dec 30, 2003 Posts: 2
  • I’m almost there! I don’t iChat at all.
    As for #2, I work for a huge corporation. The only areas with Macs are the printing departments. Luckily, I can do a lot of my work at home, and I regularly impress them with stunning graphics and presentations made on a Mac.

    Macca had this to say on Dec 31, 2003 Posts: 5
  • I’ll have to work on number 2. As it stands, that’s exactly what I do - but I hate it. If I can find a job using a Mac that pays as well or better I’ll change jobs.

    Jonathan had this to say on Dec 31, 2003 Posts: 2
  • I’m working on something about Classic and OS X but want to limit my comments here to the following: Quark is the last excuse to upgrade to anything. In fact, one resolution should be to ditch this software and go to InDesign. For most pre-press people, OS 9 is faster, and I mean way way faster and uncluttered, especially compared to OS X’s excessively bright and annoying interface.

    Jerad had this to say on Jan 02, 2004 Posts: 2
  • Re: #10

    Hey, don’t be dissin’ the Powermac 9600. Until Apple releases a six slot G5, you’ll have to pry the the PM9600/MP200 from my cold, dead server rack. It current serves up more than 40 domainw using WebStar 4.x and only needs a light reboot every three months, baby. Not bad for a seven year old chunk of classic hardware. So there.

    raspberry

    splorp had this to say on Jan 02, 2004 Posts: 2
  • I only iChat if, for some reason, Adium doesn’t work, or if I need to do file transfers.

    http://adium.sourceforge.com, by the way.

    Some of us don’t have a choice for Mac-at-home and PC-at-work!!!

    I don’t have an iPod, but I got a 40 GB one engraved for my fiance… It’s so… so… awesome. *drools*

    What’s wrong with FontBook? It’s not so bad. Doesn’t seem any better or worse than Adobe’s old ATM Deluxe!

    I also say “hurray” for old Macs. If you can get use out of them, more power to you. But if you’re using a G3 (post-beige) or later… You NEED OS X.

    Waa had this to say on Jan 05, 2004 Posts: 110
  • Here’s another resolution not to stick with:


    I will only use the Apple recommended amount of RAM for OS X.

    ‘nuff said.

    Nathan had this to say on Jan 05, 2004 Posts: 219
  • What’s wrong with FontBook? It’s not so bad. Doesn’t seem any better or worse than Adobe’s old ATM Deluxe!

    What’s wrong with FontBook? Nothing, unless you’re dealing with over a few hundred typefaces in addition to the ones that ship with the system. FontBook is woefully underpowered and unstable when working with the number of faces required in most print design shops. Yes, I like the way that FontBook handles quick previewing and accessing the complete Unicode glyph complement found in OpenType faces, but it’s certainly not ready for prime-time. It also brings with it the return of being able to double-click a font file to view the contents.

    However, none of the OSX-savvy type utilities (Extensis Suitcase XI, Alsoft’s MasterJuggler, FontAgent Pro, Font Reserve) work as consistently or as solidly as ATM Deluxe does under OS9. This isn’t to say that ATMD was (or is) perfect - not by a long shot… but it’s still better than any other font management tools we currently have available to us under OSX.

    If you’re interested, there’s more discussion on this topic over on the Typophile site.

    http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/30/18164.html
    http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/30/19215.html
    http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/30/21988.html

    splorp had this to say on Jan 05, 2004 Posts: 2
  • Well, I hate to sound like a font-wuss, but I only have the fonts that came with OS X (up through 10.3). I HAVE more, but not on my computer.

    At least Font Book is easy to use… Which should be a given, since it’s from Apple.

    The recommended RAM for OS X should be 256, not 128. Who actually gets by running multiple apps in 10.1-10.3 with only 128 MB of RAM?

    Waa had this to say on Jan 06, 2004 Posts: 110
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