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Posted on 07/02/07 @ 11:56 pm
I’ve been straddling the fence now for damn near two years on deciding if I want to make "the switch" from PC to Mac. If you’ve been reading this blog for any period of time, you’ll know that I’m a pretty avid PC user. I’ve been using them exclusively for about 10 years, excluding 1999 when I worked primarily on a Mac in the local community college’s computer lab. However, PCs have been giving me fits ever since them. Windows is hardly a safe and stable system. I’ve had computers die unexpectedly, I’ve brought them back from the brink, I’ve upgraded, downgraded, switched out, swapped out and networked more than my fair share. And especially since I’ve gotten more into design these days (with my last three jobs being a corporate web designer), the increasing chatter to jump over to the Mac has been growing from a whisper to a bullhorn. You design, therefore you use a Mac, sayeth the zealots. (No, not the casual Mac user. I’m talking the hands to Jobs, evangelistic, tunnel-visioned, ’just take the plunge’ users. That much fanaticism about a damn computer is a bit off-putting, especially when manifested as I’ve seen it. I’ve been had a one guy pull one on over on me, promising I could buy 2 Macs from him on 2 separate occasions, and then when I get all excited about it, shamelessly rescinded the offer. I even had an Apple Store rep go blue in the face trying to rationalize why I should get a Mac outside of ’because it’s awesome’.) Needless to say, I’m not 100% convinced to switch yet, and here’s why:
So in making a real effort in trying to switch over and learn about the Mac, I signed up for their One to One service. And I already told them right off the bat I don’t want to be sold to; I just want to learn about the OS objectively and don’t want any "better than Windows" or "just buy a Mac" type pandering, or I’m getting my money back, plain and simple. I can get preached to about the Mac for free. My first session is next Thursday, so I’ll keep you posted. Filed under: Technology Comments: Comments |

Last week, this whole PC/Mac thing officially reached its boiling point with me. Here’s the deal.


