No apples here

[cosmolinguist]

I have a friend who's been to my room a few times in recent months, and each time he looks at my computer he immediately says "Oh, you've got a Mac!" (I can't tell if he's impressed or disappointed by this.) I tell him it's not a Mac ... but haven't gotten around to explaining yet what it is I do have and why I can apparently make it enough like Apple's GUI to confuse him.

This conversational exchange has taken place, almost exactly the same way, two or three times now. One of those was yesterday or the day before; I mentioned to him that he always accuses me, unjustly, of having a Mac.

It occurred to me that I wish I had a screenshot of that pretty blue desktop, so I could use it as my background and confuse him more thoroughly.

Comments

[command-four.livejournal.com]

This (http://www.boomspeed.com/skeji/indigofoam.png) pretty blue desktop?

[carpeicthus.livejournal.com]

If you want to really confuse him, use a picture of an actual desktop (http://www.resexcellence.com/snapshots/snaps_indexes/index.shtml).

Clarification

[cosmolinguist]

I'm all for using an actual desktop, I was just hoping for the recognizable default one. That's all I meant.

[parakleta.livejournal.com]

accuses me, unjustly, of having a Mac

You make it sound like a bad thing.

[comradexavier.livejournal.com]

Any false accusation is unjust, if the accuser has had ample opportunity to know the truth of the matter and pursues accusation anyway.

[parakleta.livejournal.com]

Accuse is a loaded word.

While a false accusation is unjust, a false assertion may not be.

[comradexavier.livejournal.com]

I concede.

In all honesty, a decent Mac might very well be a better computer than the one she has.

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah, it easily could be. But the point wasn't that a Mac would be better or worse than what I have, just that it's not what I have, so it'd be inaccurate to say so.

[cosmolinguist]

No, it's not a bad thing. Macs aren't a bad thing--I'm one of those people who admires them from afar, while having little contatct with them myself. I used "unjustly" becuase it's not true and Jay knows it--he's just too lazy to think about it. And I used "accused" because that's what it sounds like he's doing. He seemed to have strong feelings on the subject ... but, then again, it migh just be that he's always really loud.