Mac vs Windows?
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I have been a long time Windows user. My first computer I touched was a Mac and was the first I learned on back in Junior High School. My first PC was a family HP. Within the next two months I will be making the switch from my PC to a new 24″ iMac. I have actually been wanting to make the switch for a few years (back to the G3’s) but the time was never really right. Everything worked out this year both with money and business as freelancing and will finally make the switch. Not only was money right this year to drop just over $2,000 on a new iMac but with Leopard and watching the Guided Tour and reading what everybody else has been saying about it just made it perfect and I look forward to the switch.
I do love my PC though. Windows has personally been great to me. I’m not one who has had tons of problems and BSoDs often. From Windows 98SE, 2000, XP/XP 64bit to Vista I have had very few problems and most were not related to Windows. Of course I am leaving Windows ME out of this list and we won’t get started on the problems with that release. I have had very few OS crashes. In fact my last one was about 9 months ago when I was reloading my video drivers and loaded the wrong ones (I had switched to 64bit XP and loaded 32 drivers). I have of course had my share of hardware failures and OS problems with apps and sucking up memory but knowing how to deal with it is one thing.
I am excited about switching to a mac though. Spent plenty of time browsing around Apple.com and reading their switching guides. Browsed tons of Mac/Apple related websites and forums and of course have got great tips from people I know who use macs. I also look forward to blogging about my switch and finding apps to replace my current. I’m also really wanting to give Final Cut a go. The schedule is to purchase it early January. We are also looking into getting a refurbed MacBook as well. Think we plan to wait until later in the year for it though. I just need it for travel so not really big on the specs for it. Thats it for this post. My next topic will be VideoBlogging.
Update: Sorry for the downtime tonight. I finally got around to upgrading WordPress and had a few plugins that didn’t work with the latest version however I found some plugins (twitter, tags and last.fm) that I like a little better. The tag cloud is limited at the moment as I switched to a new tag plugin and was not about to re-add tags to each post. I did the last few months though.
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