iChat and me
hello…. is there anybody there?
My first Mac wasn’t mine… What I mean was that
it didn’t end up as mine. I bought an Indigo iMac some years ago ‘because’. I
liked the look of it and I wanted one so I bought it, just because. I cleared a
space next to my space and enjoyed the novelty of a new toy to play with. At
this time I was still very much stuck in the Windows world.. a lifer. It soon
became obvious that I couldn’t sustain 2 computers on one desk when one was
becoming a big calculator so it got farmed off to a family member. Not long
after this OSX was released and I treated the iMac to a spanking new OS. Now
this was a whole new ball game with all the graphical lushness of a lush thing
in lush town. Queue lust, desire and that original feeling of ‘because’. I
wanted it back but it was too late.
it didn’t end up as mine. I bought an Indigo iMac some years ago ‘because’. I
liked the look of it and I wanted one so I bought it, just because. I cleared a
space next to my space and enjoyed the novelty of a new toy to play with. At
this time I was still very much stuck in the Windows world.. a lifer. It soon
became obvious that I couldn’t sustain 2 computers on one desk when one was
becoming a big calculator so it got farmed off to a family member. Not long
after this OSX was released and I treated the iMac to a spanking new OS. Now
this was a whole new ball game with all the graphical lushness of a lush thing
in lush town. Queue lust, desire and that original feeling of ‘because’. I
wanted it back but it was too late.
Jumping to present day I find myself
sitting in front of a six week old G5 looking at iChat. Its now that I realise
that I only know one other Mac owner to talk to, the recipient of the original
iMac and they are in earshot of this
Mac.
So when I see Steve Jobs showing
off the new four way video chats I have to wonder… will I ever find anyone to
use it with?
