The Mac World Cup

The Mac World Cup

The Mac World Cup

When was the last time you watched "America's Got Talent" and got goosebumps as some little guy or gal puts on a performance that leaves your jaw on the floor? I am serious when I say that my MacBook does exactly that for me.

I never cease to be amazed at what this little machine can do. Tonight I received a regularly scheduled article from my buddy who publishes a syndicated column in most of the off-beat newspapers in our local area. I was relaxing with my mp3 application banging out my humungous playlist of favorite tunes.

I decided to leave the player running as I read the email he sent me. I clicked on his document attachment to open it and waited a few seconds as my word processor launched. Once it did, I exported the Word document to Adobe pdf format. While that was going on, I opened Filezilla and connected to my server. I uploaded the saved pdf to the server then launched a Windows inside my Mac OS. Parallels fired up windows in about 25 seconds and I was ready then to open one of the only two programs I have left that don't run natively on Mac OSX.

From inside Windows, I launched Xara Web Designer Pro and opened the website I created for my friend some months ago. I navigated to the page that holds the article posts and posted his article. All the time, my tunes are rocking up a storm!

While the Xara web file was saving, I went to the trash can and emptied the 2770 files that were sitting in it from some early house keeping I had done.

As I closed out Xara and shut down Windows, I noticed all the things running on the Mac dock. I had Techsmith's SnagIt running, Open Office, Microsoft Entourage, VLC Media player, Microsoft Word, Flock Web Browser and Adobe Acrobat. My tunes continued with barely a hiccup. Maybe it was the music, but as I looked at my left forearm, there they were - goosebumps!

There I was at 10 pm at night - alone in my office - only a small desk lamp lighting a small corner of my desk. I looked down at the MacBook lighted keyboard and felt how cool the machine still was to the touch. As "Dancing in the Dark" pounds out it fury I look at the wall and yell "Yaaaa" as I do a double fist pump!

Did I just win the world cup? No - but for me it was the same sensation our brothers in Spain just felt.

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