ABC-5 exec talks about Mac and Vista

I GOT to meet a lot of people in Clark, Pampanga when I attended and blogged about Media Nation, and one of the coolest journalists is Joe B. Javier, director for Allied Businesses and Special Projects of broadcast network ABC-5.

Joe and I had an interesting discussion about technology, online journalism and games at our breakfast table, which also included Isagani Yambot, publisher of the Philippine Daily Inquirer; my college orgmate Dodge Dillague, who directs shows for ABC-5; our INQUIRER.net reporter Thea Alberto; and PDI reporter Alcuin Papa, who was also my UP Tinta college orgmate.

It was great to find out that Joe is really into technology — he loves gadgets and is an avid gamer, and you’ll find out more about that soon. He’s also a big believer in the power of online journalism and tech-enabled news delivery.

After Media Nation, he e-mailed me a reaction to “Greenpeace vs Vista, media vs the PR machine,” which I’m posting here with his permission so that readers could also benefit from his tips.

Joey,

Nice meeting you at the Media Nation Summit 4.1. I read your article about Windows Vista and you are right, really nothing new there. I previewed it at the Microsoft exhibit at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last January and I was not impressed. That is not to say that it’s not good, if it’s what some people want.

I have four computers: a moderately powerful PC desktop, a Fujitsu PC laptop, an iMac G5 and a MacBook Pro Core Duo. I have stopped using the PCs since I bought the Macs. It’s been worry free and I didn’t need to always configure and re-configure anything (which, by the way, took up most of my time using the PCs). No defragmentations, easy boot up, little or no compatibility problems. Most of all, I love the way everything is neatly arranged for the user. I’m no big fan of bloated OSes myself and I have added three external drives to house all of my documents, videos, photos in separate drives. I don’t use PCs for gaming; I use gaming consoles. It is using machines for purposes other than what they’ve been built for that often causes problems. And people just seem unwilling to let go of files they don’t use anyway.

On PCs, I install and uninstall software according to my needs. That way, I don’t sap the computer’s energy carrying all that load when I use basically only three software [applications], one for word processing, another for surfing the Net, and one for presentations. All the rest, I do somewhere else or on another computer, like photo enhancement, graphics and video editing and encoding where it makes sense to have dedicated drives for storing data and writing to discs.

On the Macs, I just have what was pre-installed when I bought them and update as necessary. So far, it has worked well for me.

Give it a try sometimes, you may like it. But, as I always say, only if you want or have to!

Again, nice talking to you in Clark.

Thanks, Joe, and I see that Mac has another convert Will keep your advice in mind, and who knows, one day I might find myself buying a Mac.

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