After months of pestering and in no small part thanks to my daughter quick thinking at the computer store, we finally convinced my lovely bride to allow us to buy a new computer. We have purchased a MacBook. This is a new adventure for my family as we have been PC folks but over the past 6 months my buddy Russell has made the turn to Mac and by gosh and by golly here I am pounding away on beautiful white keyboard with a nifty screen and interface that in many ways feels somewhat foreign, yet very comfortable and natural.
Now, I know the Mac is still somewhat an enigma to many people. Many of us have iPods, a few have iPhones and we stare across the room at those people that have leapt onto the iPads and we say to ourselves, “Wow! That looks like a lot of fun.” So the question now is by having a Mac are we now part of the “in crowd”? I'm not to sure, but I do know this. I am going to have a lot of fun creating on this.
That is really the reason for this move. The last computer we, the kids and I, had was an old Acer and it really had come to the end of its functioning capability. IT was frustrating. Having an idea going to the computer and waiting 5, 10 or 15 minutes for it to come on, catch-up with itself and allow me to start typing. (Really, I can only write so fast and make it legible.) But with the Mac all I have to do is lift the lid and it springs to life as if to invite me in and dare to begin a journey.
I have to tell this is a thing of beauty, and I have only been using it for about 4 hours. Now there will be some things that I will have to get used to. First off the delete button on the Mac works differently then on a PC. More like a backspace I think. No “Crtl”, end, home buttons or a mouse. A couple other funky things. No simple way to make a window full size, getting used to the different positions of menu items minimize etc, and the efficiency of iTunes. Oh wait, that's a good thing especially as I listen to the Cowboy Junkies.
The touchpad on the old laptop stopped working two years ago and on the MacBook the touch pad is AWESOME. Just very intuitive. In fact the whole machine is intuitive not to mention just more efficient.
Last night at 9:45 I just closed the lid and went to bed. This morning at 6:30 I opened the lid and “Pow!” it was ready to serve. Not the waiting around thinking that the PC goes through. All I had to do was sit down and open Safari (internet browser) and I was reading the NY Times. I haven't been able to do that with the last laptop....ever.
So overall, two days into it I am happy with the decision to go Mac. At this point I don't think I will ever go back. The few items will require some getting used to, but I have to say we did the right thing. And am proud to join the crowd that says “I'm a Mac”
So now give me your thoughts. Have you gone the way of the Mac, or are you staying with the PC world.
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