{"id":158,"date":"2007-08-17T13:43:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T21:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2007-08-17T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T21:43:17","slug":"mac-is-where-its-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/158","title":{"rendered":"Mac is where IT&#8217;s at"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As anyone who knows me (or has read this blog) knows, I am a Mac user and pretty serious fan. Some would go so far as say &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fanboy\" target=\"_blank\">fanboy<\/a>&#8221; but I like to think that I am honest enough to see the warts, too.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, one thing that has been quite interesting to me is the adoption (conversion?) rate of OS X and Macintosh hardware in my department at work recently. I work in IT and in my &#8220;section&#8221; there are sixteen of us. When I first transferred in about two years ago I was one of only two Mac users (the department was only 11 then). As our department grew, OS X improved, and products like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallels.com\" target=\"_blank\">Parallels<\/a> came about, Apple hardware started showing up. At this point, nine of thirteen laptops are MacBooks and as I write this, my manager is anxiously awaiting his MacBook (updating to ten of thirteen).<\/p>\n<p>I work with a lot of smart people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As anyone who knows me (or has read this blog) knows, I am a Mac user and pretty serious fan. Some would go so far as say &#8220;fanboy&#8221; but I like to think that I am honest enough to see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/158\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-macintosh","category-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vft-2y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}