No one would have expected this but after 14 years of using a Personal Computer, I am about to own an Apple iMac myself. Yup that is right. A few months ago I wrote about how the Mac Mini was Apple’s most affordable Mac yet. However things were brought to me in perspective these last few months. I have been using Mac OS X (the Operating System that powers the Apple) and it has been a great experience. Simply everything works like it is supposed to. No crashes, no weird slow downs and the biggest thing… NO SPYWARE. What I have come to expect from my computer is much more because of what I have at work. Mail.app does everything like Outlook but faster. Safari / Camino surfs as fast as IE but without the possibility of spyware. Sure we have Firefox for Windows (which Camino is based off of), but Mac OS X just does it pretty.

Years ago I hated Apple and people who know me back then know that as well. I was always frustrated when I had to use the apples and was very happy when the schools went to Dell / HP for their computers. Looking back though, schools didn’t really need a technican or (insert job title here to maintain PC) when the schools ran Macs. It is funny that after the schools switched over, suddenly problems with computers increased as well. However at the time I hated Macs and up until last year I still did. I laughed at those that used Macs. I started becoming interested in them when I was laptop hunting but since I feared the platform, I feared the change.

The car engine analogy applies to this VERY well. I love analogies and this is how this one goes. Basically a car engine has two very important parts. 1. Horsepower 2. Torque. Wintel (Intel/AMD) has the raw horsepower (like processing speed) but Apple has the torque meaning what drives the horsepower, in this case Mac OS X. Mac OS X just works better then Windows. Windows has gotten so big because the platform it runs on has so many different variations. You can’t really fully blame Microsoft other then that they should have been more stricter (hopefully Longhorn will fix this) with how it runs unsigned drivers / ramp up testing. Which brings up the next issue, Longhorn. It has been 5 years since the last OS release from Microsoft (longest time before this was 2 and half, between Windows 95 & 98 and even then you had Windows 95 OSR2 & OSR2.5).

Anyways. I will be switching part of me soon to Apple. My email and word processing will be done from my iMac. I will still probably game for while from the PC but eventually (in the next 3 years) I will make the full switch. Until Microsoft gets their shit straight, and literally straight. I will be more then happy to be an Apple fanboy.

I will post pics the moment I get it setup. Such a beautiful machine.

With that said. 11 days until Tiger roars on my desktop!!!

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