okay ... maybe not ever, but apple's new airport extreme is an amazing little piece of equipment. not only is it a wireless access point, it also allows users to share a USB printer and, best of all, to play music wirelessly from their iTunes library on any stereo it's hooked into. man, that last feature almost makes me giddy ...
so, if you've never met me and had the extended conversation about computers that i often have with fellow industry folk, you might just now be realizing that i'm a bit of a computer geek. but, i'd like to think that i'm not your run-of-the-mill, average technology guy.
first, i am a passionate mac user, having converted from the PC world about four years ago. most tech folk (though certainly not all) are begrudging PC users. but, since the advent of apple's OS X, an operating system based on UNIX that is completely different from every mac OS before it, more PC tech folk are coming to realize that a lot of productive work can be done on a mac.
second, i'm of the opinion that technology should do what it's always been advertised to do, namely make our lives easier and/or more productive. apple does this better than anyone else. for example, when we set up a wireless network in our house, kirstin and my apples connected seamlessly in less than a minute. our housemate's PC laptop was an entirely different story. it literally took three weeks to get it to connect. we even had a PC expert come in and, after about five hours of tweaking a million different settings, he finally got the PC to work--some of the time.
and that's my point. i'm not really a full-fledged tech guru (though i've had my parents fooled for years), the mac merely allows me to do things that most average folks should be able to do with their computers. isn't that what technology should do?
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