I ended up getting a PC with Dos 6 and Windows 3.1 and stuck with Windows ever since. I never got a Mac because I had grown familiar with PCs and Windows and Macs seemed to expensive for me. Cast off PCs and PC parts were easy to come by and back when I was growing up and didn’t have much money that was another factor that kept me on PCs.

Now that I’m an adult, I know the difference between PCs and Macs, and I have an income that lets me purchase things I couldn’t at earlier times in my life. I’m looking forward to getting a Mac. I’m fed up with Windows. It’s analogous to a bad marriage that you can’t wait to get out of so you can date someone new.

My own Mac is something I eagerly look forward to and am counting the days until the divorce papers are signed. Oops I mean until my local retailer has the new 24″ iMacs and wireless keyboards in stock.

i was the exact same way. i wasnt so much a fanboy as i was completely oblivious to macs. my only experience was the apple IIs we had at my elementary school. that is until my highschool bought a full lab of dual processor G5s for our multimedia class.

ive never been back. when i graduated and it was time to go off to college i not only bought a powerbook, but my roommate (who already had an ibook) and i talked the other two guys in the appartment into ibooks as well. im writing right now from my work computer, a compaq presario. and i hate it. i didnt even realize how little osx calls attention to itself just plugging and chugging away without me having to know whats going on. my (now macbook pro) computer boots up in about 20 seconds and it rearing and ready to go. lord help me if i wake this xp machine from sleep or the screen saver and try to open safari/firefox/whatever too qucikly. constant little blips to tell me that i have unused icons on my desktop, theres an update to some bloatware i had no say in having, or that my document had indeed printed like i hadnt thought was in question (afterall i did tell it to print… does it want a cookie?) all hovering there until i click the little x in the corner.

that doesnt happen with my mac. in the 3 years ive been using a mac, ive had the multilinqual ‘osx requires a shutdown’ that im not sure im supposed to tell people about… but in 30 seconds after that beautiful c-chord im up and running with my system exactly how it was.

one more thing. the biggest hastle i deal with on this computer is wanting to drag files into a program on the start menu. on my mac, i drag a file from the desktop to mail on the dock it opens mail and attaches it to an email. i do it in photoshop, it opens in photoshop. on xp, i drag it onto my already running inbox, it bring the inbox from hiding, and opens an error dialog saying that “you cannot drag an item into a program from the start menu. However, if you hover over for a second the program will open and you can drag it into there” Basically, “we know what you want to do, but we cant do it. Nice try.” then i have to reminimize the window, drag the file, hold it, and release it into my inbox. i just got so used to draggin images from anywhere to the top right corner to expose my desktop via expose then dropping it there or in any application, etc.

nice rant eh? thank you for giving me something to read while at work.

Ich will ja nicht gleich meine negative Meinung gegenüber Windows Vista breittreten, trotzdem tue ich es. Wer jedoch auf Vista angewiesen (vorinstalliert) ist, oder gar so blöd war und sich eine Originalversion zugelegt hat, der lernt mit diesem Vide…