His pc crashed. I, the family tech person, set him up with a Mac. The employees at the big Apple Box store in Midtown were all wearing interesting t-shirts, anticipating that Microsoft's big push to the new Vista operating system will spur on the sales of Mac laptops. The surprise bright spot on his new Mac? The warp photo fun feature. He and our youngest daughter have wasted a huge amount of time playing with this feature.
Here's something about switching to a Mac. David Pogue, NYTimes, writes that the speech recognition capatilities in Vista may be the unsung bright spot. I'm still wanting to know the other bright spots before I even think about buying Vista.
Did you know about MacSurfer's Headline News? All things Mac and Apple, there.
We've only had Macs, since we began freelancing many many years ago. When I first started working on a computer, though, in the late 80s, my boss had Xywrite, which seemed to involve many many keystrokes to accomplish what you could on a Mac using one or two!
Posted by: tut-tut | March 01, 2007 at 12:28 PM
The first real computer I ever worked on was a Mac and it was so user friendly it spoiled me. My son is an IT person and he wishes the world would switch to Macs!
Posted by: allison | March 01, 2007 at 01:32 PM
I'll let you know when I find one. So far I'm not impressed. I am getting use to a new laptop as well as Vista so it's all new and thats not really so fun.
Posted by: janet | March 01, 2007 at 02:25 PM
unfortunately I have Vista and I hate it!!! You need access for everything. The first time I saw the new "Hi, I'm a PC and I'm a Mac" commerical I laughed..it is so true!
Posted by: christina | March 01, 2007 at 07:25 PM
Welcome to the wonderful world of Apple, MotherPie's husband!
I have been a mac user since before the term macintosh appeared, had apple IIs, Gs and everything else apple came up with and just loved it!
Posted by: claude | March 02, 2007 at 03:19 AM