My switch to a Mac (part 2 - the Good)

This post and my next will detail the good and bad experiences of my switch.  So here's the good.....

1. Mac OS X just works.

The Unix foundation of Mac OS X makes it stable, secure, and super fast. There really is no comparison of a PC and a Mac (apples and oranges). I'm not running any ant-virus software to slow me down and I don't need to! It has only crashed once on me but I caused that trying to do some funky things with Fusion. I find myself using it most of the time (75%?) and only resort to my Windows 7 VM for Office applications, VMware stuff, and a few other .Net based apps. Now that Snow Leopard is finally here I'll have even less dependence on Windows with the new Exchange support. But more on that later.....

My switch to a Mac (part 1 - Why?)

I did it .... I switched to a Mac. Me, a PC guy since the early days of DOS & Windows. I established my early IT career around the PC and it has given me good job security over the years. So why switch? Well, there are a lot of reasons but here were the major ones for me......

1. Windows & Linux suck!

I was fed up with Microsoft's poor desktop OS releases. I tried running Vista two different times on my old laptop and eventually ended up switching back to XP because of application & hardware compatibility issues. Windows XP is nearly 8 yrs old now; how sad is that? Windows 7 looks promising but too little too late for me. Linux just didn't cut it for me either. I tried Ubuntu and a couple others but this was even more challenging. I did a dual boot scenario to try it out and always found myself back in my XP installation mostly because of hardware compatibility issues. I don't have a heavy Linux background so trying to recompile drivers, etc. was just too much and I didn't care enough to learn.