Pondering Mac Classics

 The Macbook Neo is only $500 with a teacher discount. I'm pretty happy with the HP I'm currently typing on (running Fedora), but I haven't really used a Mac since undergrad. A lot of my friends are pretty big Mac friends, and it might be interesting to try to learn a new OS. Granted, it's still a *Nix system (I know this!) I do remember being frustrated in college when someone asked me to fix something on their Macbook, and I knew how to do it from the terminal on Linux, but couldn't get it to work on Mac.

So, I was thinking about what kind of stuff I'd do with it. I've heard great things about a lot of the built in productivity-type stuff. Chess is the only built in game, which seems kind of weird.

Then I saw an ad for the new Marathon. I don't know that I'll bother with it (extraction shooters are too much like work), but it did get me thinking about the original Marathon, which came out for Macs in the 90s. I think I played a source port for like 10 minutes once. Snood is Mac original I know. I learned Myst was a Mac game first, and they apparently had to totally redo it, since they used HYPERCARD (which seems like it was probably a cool idea in the 90s). Anything I play is going to have to be remastered, source ported, or emulated, but I still like the idea of playing classic Mac games on an actual Mac.

This is definitely not me just doing a filler day before A to Z since we're away from home.

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