May 26, 2005
Mad as Hell, Switching to Mac
Someone at Network World writes how he went from PC bigot to Mac switcher. I'm in the same boat. My main daily PC is now a 1.2 ghz Mac Mini. I switched from a 2.66 ghz P4 because I got sick and tired of the spyware, viruses, and crashing of the Windows platform.
How many times has Windows crashed for no reason at all? When I want to open a directory on a networked computer? Crash. When I want to copy hundreds of files at once? Crash. Having to refresh your hardware because of nasty spyware every 6 months? Check. It shouldn't have to be that way. On the Mac, stuff just works. It might be a little slower, but OS X is just more elegant, stable, and solid. I'm glad I made the switch. Don't worry, my PC is primarily a game and multi-media entertainment machine. The Mac can't do that stuff... yet.
I want my computer to function every time I turn it on. I want my computer to not corrupt data when it does crash. I use a handful of applications: Microsoft Office, e-mail, browser, FTP client and some multimedia toys. Regardless of format, they should work without crashing. I live on the 'Net. I do not want my browser to eat up all of my memory. In the WinTel world I need an assortment of third-party tools to try to keep my PC alive. That's just crazy.
