Can I be a Windows, Apple, Linux, and Google guy all at once?

“I’m having an identity crisis. Regular readers of both this
blog and my Education blog will know that I border on being a
Google fanboi and Linux tends to work its way into my computer
passions as well. I work almost constantly in the cloud and Linux
obviously provides a cheap, stable platform for whatever I want to
do online. My primary desktop and exclusive web and file server
platforms? Ubuntu. Google Apps makes my life easy in my day job and
manages virtually all of my communication needs in and out of work.
However…

“Apple is sending me a MacBook Pro and an iPod Touch to evaluate
as an instructional platform and I’m actually excited about it.
I’ve been tired of my MacBook since about 6 months after I got it,
but more than a few Mac fans have told me that’s simply because I’m
not fully exploiting the software and platform. Sure, I’m a cloud
sort of guy, but how much am I missing in terms of creating rich
interactive content for the students and teachers I support as well
as for readers? I may find (as I’ve always expected) that the
platform can’t justify the cost (and, in fact, that the platform
itself may be a problem given its closed nature), but maybe
not.”

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