Quaker 2.0

I must be honest, I don’t generally use a Mac: my computer is a Dell laptop that is in the process of dying as ungracefully as possible. So, while my husband was at work, I decided to use a functional computer, one where all the mouse keys work and the fan actually cools the computer down and the chord hasn’t been chewed on by the dog.

But I must mention, I believe our entire church office uses Macs solely. And so close to Microsoft land: I think it’s a form of conscientious objection.

I used to use a Dell and I’m so glad that I had their 3 year service contract. I ended up getting every part replaced on it so that after I’d owned it 3 years I had more or less a brand-new laptop. Horrible components - great service.

I was warned about the Compaq I own now. Apparently they’re known within Compaq to spontaneously combust. Good times.

I am pretty sure Fox would would use OSX - especially because they both end in X.

I use 3 macs personally and own two ipods. Macs are the un-offical offical computer of the convergent conversation. Don’t forget, you’re using the mac hardware - that’s more than half the battle. Just give in Chris - the Inner Light is glowing on the bottom right side of the mini…

OK- that last part was a bit heretical but this is all tonue-in-cheek right…right..?

I am a MAC user but not a Quaker. However I have a question about your design if you could email me. Thanks…

I find it hard to believe that Fox woul have given a rat’s be-hind about this.

I don’t think we could even describe him as a proto-techie. His journal is a collection drawn from all sorts of disparate sources and he was too busy preaching to the masses (and getting thrown in jail) to worry about formal writing (Maybe Margaret would have gotten involved, being the brains behind the operation). George comes across to me as too scattered and impulsive to bother spending half the night trying to configure some ornery piece of software! He might have gone in for a blog but it would have been one of those infrequent, semi-mad ones that would have lived on the most non-techie hosted platform available (I’d peg him as a Blogspot user).

The majority of Quaker bloggers I see out there are non-techies who rarely post about software. I suspect the Mac references are simply an indication that Mac users tend to think and post about software more than non-Mac users and so are over-represented in genre.

And to give just a little hard data: over eighty percent of the Quaker blog readership (if Quakerquaker usage logs are any indication) are Windows users and fifteen percent are Mac users. That’s higher than average (Mac market share is generally reported in the single digits) but it’s clearly nowhere near accurate to state that “Quaker bloggers use Macs.” But really, why do we care? How is it convergence to restoke the boring old OS wars? OS reliability and software ability is a result of differing corporate strategies and both Apple and Microsoft are mercenary.

To be honest, I think the techie stuff is often a distraction. It’s easy to set up software and it’s easy to get excited about blinking lights and computer chips. What’s hard is keeping the eyes on the prize: spreading the good news and remembering the technology is only useful if it helps bring us together into the beloved community that God desires for us.

I don’t know what computer he would have used, but obviously George’s programming language would be FoxPro.

Martin - I think you’ve got something with the “distraction” statement. More people posted to this post than “Why Are We Converging.”

Sideblog allows you to pull a particular category from your feed, so I think I might pull the “blog” category, just to make it clear that stuff posted in this category isn’t “official” and really “just for fun.”

It seems to me that the motivations that lead people to choose Macs are significantly different from those that drove Fox. Fox’s motivations were entirely bound up in things like knowing Christ, doing God’s will, and working out the challenge of salvation.

Neat tools and toys don’t seem to have interested Fox: he didn’t buy his own printing press, for example, and he seems to have been of only middling skill in his chosen trade as a shoemaker, not at all the type who would track down quality shoemaking tools to see what sort of difference they would make.

Fox was interested in neat natural substances, though, from tobacco (which he smoked heavily) to medicinal herbs (the understanding of which he felt had been specially revealed to him by God).

Help me out understanding your point - I am not sure what one gains in a spiritual sense fro mone OS over the other? From a simplicity point of view: I use a Windows machine at work and have a Mac running OSX at home as well as an old Mac Laptop running Ubuntu Linux. While I enjoy the Linux machine, the quality of OSX makes it my favorite of all 3 and requires a lot less fussing that the other 2 systems. It seems to me that the simplest choice is the OS that requires the least tinkering - am I off base?

Ahem. I’m weighing in, now that I’ve seen this topic.

Mac user. Plain and simple.

Always have been, always will be. Blame it on my brother, major Apple geek.

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