Thursday, May 29, 2008
My year with a Mac
It's almost a year since I made the move to a Mac (Mac Pro desktop) and what an enjoyable year it has been. To highlight what a successful switch it has been for me I have given some thought to the problems I have had with the Mac compared to the problems experienced on my wife's Windows Acer laptop over the same time period. The laptop had a clean install of Windows at about the same time that I got the Mac. As far as useage patterns go, the Mac is used more intensively than the laptop, ie I run more programs simultaneously and run apps that put more of a demand on the system. The Mac has also had much more software installed and uninstalled than the laptop (I love to experiment with new software).
Here is the data (not scientifically obtained):
My satisfaction with the Mac should be obvious from the above. It has been a hassle free experience to switch and I have been more productive and less frustrated than when using a PC. I have a copy of VMWare Fusion to run windows in a virtual machine and I also have a boot camp installation of windows. To my surprise, the only time I have used the boot camp copy is to play an occasional game. Similarly, the use of the virtual machine copy has been very infrequent.
Next purchase? A Macbook of course.
"You can't coach that"
