I gotta be sounding like a broken record, and I'm certain some
of you could care less that I'm gushing in this forum like a girl
seeing her first Davey Jones concert (bad 70's joke), but MAN
OH MAN do I think Macintosh is the best thing that has ever
happened to computers.
You guys know the story. I had a $4K Velocity Micro PC that
went nutty after 2 years. Velocity Micro still can't fix it despite
the fact it has been shipped to their company no less than 3 times.
In January I said "enough is enough" and took the biggest
gamble of my life in buying a Macintosh. For most brainwashed
PC users like myself, going Mac was the thing we were taught
never EVER to do. Even my fellow HTF Moderator staff were
telling me that I was "drinking the kool-aid" because I was
talking up the virtues of owning a Mac computer.
In the past 3 months I have thoroughly enjoyed my Mac
experience to the point where two weeks ago I ditched my
Lenovo laptop for a Macbook Pro. The time had come
for me to put that final nail in the coffin as far as Windows and
PCs were concerned.
After a year of owning a Lenovo, which is considered by some
to be the "Rolls Royce" of laptops, I can honestly say that
the Macbook Pro blows it out of the water.
Here are
1. Bootup time is much quicker with OS X than Windows.
My Lenovo laptop with its 7200rpm drive used to take 3 minutes
to load up completely with its startup programs to the point
where I could use it. On my Macbook Pro with its
slower hard drive it takes 25 seconds.
2. Anything APPLE makes is quality. That's one of the reasons
why you pay through the nose for it. You tend to admire the
design and build quality of an iPod when comparing it to all the
other MP3 players out there. Same goes for Mac computers.
These are the most attractive and well-built pieces of machinery
on the market. Even Consumer Reports this month rated Mac
desktops to be the most reliable of computers.
3. No unnecessary eye candy. I have said this many times
before --- Vista is a glorified Windows XP that has been doctored
up to look pretty. But you know what? It still has bugs, it still
crashes and there are many having problems upgrading to it.
With OS X I have yet to have a single crash. When you install
a program you simply drag it to a directory. When you uninstall
you simply drag it to a trash can. No registry crap to deal with
and none of the problems associated with one software not playing
nice with another.
Bottom line is that I have never enjoyed my computing experience
as much as I do now that I switched over to a Mac. I have even
managed to convince my co-workers to switch over and they thank
me almost on a daily basis for doing so.
of you could care less that I'm gushing in this forum like a girl
seeing her first Davey Jones concert (bad 70's joke), but MAN
OH MAN do I think Macintosh is the best thing that has ever
happened to computers.
You guys know the story. I had a $4K Velocity Micro PC that
went nutty after 2 years. Velocity Micro still can't fix it despite
the fact it has been shipped to their company no less than 3 times.
In January I said "enough is enough" and took the biggest
gamble of my life in buying a Macintosh. For most brainwashed
PC users like myself, going Mac was the thing we were taught
never EVER to do. Even my fellow HTF Moderator staff were
telling me that I was "drinking the kool-aid" because I was
talking up the virtues of owning a Mac computer.
In the past 3 months I have thoroughly enjoyed my Mac
experience to the point where two weeks ago I ditched my
Lenovo laptop for a Macbook Pro. The time had come
for me to put that final nail in the coffin as far as Windows and
PCs were concerned.
After a year of owning a Lenovo, which is considered by some
to be the "Rolls Royce" of laptops, I can honestly say that
the Macbook Pro blows it out of the water.
Here are
1. Bootup time is much quicker with OS X than Windows.
My Lenovo laptop with its 7200rpm drive used to take 3 minutes
to load up completely with its startup programs to the point
where I could use it. On my Macbook Pro with its
slower hard drive it takes 25 seconds.
2. Anything APPLE makes is quality. That's one of the reasons
why you pay through the nose for it. You tend to admire the
design and build quality of an iPod when comparing it to all the
other MP3 players out there. Same goes for Mac computers.
These are the most attractive and well-built pieces of machinery
on the market. Even Consumer Reports this month rated Mac
desktops to be the most reliable of computers.
3. No unnecessary eye candy. I have said this many times
before --- Vista is a glorified Windows XP that has been doctored
up to look pretty. But you know what? It still has bugs, it still
crashes and there are many having problems upgrading to it.
With OS X I have yet to have a single crash. When you install
a program you simply drag it to a directory. When you uninstall
you simply drag it to a trash can. No registry crap to deal with
and none of the problems associated with one software not playing
nice with another.
Bottom line is that I have never enjoyed my computing experience
as much as I do now that I switched over to a Mac. I have even
managed to convince my co-workers to switch over and they thank
me almost on a daily basis for doing so.
which surfaced during Win 95's ballyhooed release back in 1995.
