What it’s really like to switch to Mac
February 27th, 2007 by james“Poke around the net for a while searching for information on what it’s like to switch to a Mac, and you’ll quickly get a face full of hyperbole, zealots, platform bigots, feature weenies, and naysayers - from both the Windows and Mac camps.
“But there are precious few places to get an honest word about what it’s like to switch, other than some deeply technical face-offs. So, I’ve been taking notes for the past few years, and thought I’d write them down.”
I have to say I agree with most of the things on this guy’s list. One of my favorite things is the camaraderie of fellow Mac users at work. When I first started at my current job in 2002, I was the only Mac user. People left and right would make comments about my iBook G3 700Mhz and joking about my little Mac. Now, 5 years later, many of my friends and a lot of people at work now have MacBooks and other Mac computers. Since I’ve been a Mac user the longest, I find myself helping out my fellow Mac users on an almost daily basis. Oftentimes they will tell me about something new they discovered.
I’ve had people randomly come up to me at work and in public at airports asking about my MacBook Pro.
Beyond that, since I was primarily a Linux user, switching from Windows hasn’t been too difficult for me. I like the fact that OS X gives me a lot of the power that I am used to in a *nix operating system.
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