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 Posted: Fri Aug 24th, 2007 05:00 pm
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jhowton

 

Joined: Fri Aug 24th, 2007
Location: 50 Miles West Of Chicago, Illinois USA
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 I am another guy who stared with Apple in 1979 (Apple II with no disks, it booted from cassette) and switched to PCs in the early 80s.  I have used Apples occasonally throughout the years but never felt the urge to buy one.  I set up and administrated for many years a 30 user network with Novell and MS servers in various roles, developed websites, databases and standalone software all on the PC platform.  I have played with a dozen flavors of Linux, OS/2 and even for a while ran BeOS on a PC. 

In April I decided to pick up a MacBook Pro to replace my Sony Vaio laptop, my travel computer.  Since then I have replaced my wifes PC with a MacBook and replaced my Kids PCs with an iMac, I cannot believe after all these years how much better these things are.

I keep trying to describe to people I know why it is "better" but for the life of me I can't except that since I have owned it, it hasn't crashed or locked up once.  Everything just works without having to screw around with settings or re-install drivers just to get something to work correctly.  It isn't that it does anything that a PC doesn't do, it's just it does it all without any hassle.  I have a newish Quad core Dell workstation on my desk that is set up to boot Vista, Vista 64 Bit and XP and I am writing this on my MacBookPro, it actually irritates me at this point to have to use Windows.

Anyway, I don't want to sound like a zealot but anyone who hasn't tried a new Mac should.

Regards

Jamie