In the third installment of a series in which longtime Windows expert Scot Finnie gave Apple’s Mac a three-month trial as his primary machine for work and home use, Finnie writes, “Bye-bye Windows! My three-month Macintosh trial has ended, but my permanent gig with the Mac is just getting started. Apple’s MacBook Pro and Mac OS X are now my computer and operating system of choice.”
Finnie writes, “If you give the Mac three months, as I did, you won’t go back either. The hardest part is paying for it — everything after that gets easier and easier. Perhaps fittingly, it took me the full three-month trial period to pay off my expensive MacBook Pro. But the darn thing is worth every penny.”
“After hundreds of hours testing Windows Vista during its extensive beta cycle, last year I found myself wondering if it would turn out to be the best operating system choice for most people. That’s when I decided to give Mac OS X a fair shake. In early November I began a total-immersion trial of the Macintosh,” Finnie writes.
Finnie writes, “After living with the Mac for three months and comparing it to my Vista experiences, the choice is crystal clear. I’ve struggled to sort out my gut feeling about Windows Vista, but the value and advantage of the Mac and OS X are difficult to miss. While I continue to work with Windows XP and Vista on a number of other machines, I am now recommending the Macintosh for business and home users.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Welcome, Scot! May your switch from Windows to Mac inspire many others to give superior personal computing a try!
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WOW !!
Wow, it’s the top story on the home page with this priceless headline – “Windows expert to Redmond: Buh-bye.” Cracks me up.
The number of high profile switchers is growing like proverbial weeds. Its going to be hard for tohers to ignore them.
It took a long time, but people are coming around to the fact that MSFT has been selling crap for 20+ years. Once they get past that realization, switching to OSX is easy.
I just helped a Comp-USA customer buy his first Mac! (typing away on a display model iMac) He bought a MacBook to use as his wife enters the hospital. He’s sick of drive-wiping his Windows laptop and dealing with antivirus hassles. The salesman is a PC fan but has no love for Vista. I joked it was because it was even more like a Mac. He agreed with me.
The customer leaned over to me as said salesman was off checking on “Move2MAc” software and whispered, “It’s really killing him to sell me a Mac.” I smiled and explained Apple’s lack of spiffs. I gave him my card and told me to call if he had any questions. One more over the wall!!!!!!
I hate MW p.s.es but I just scrolled down to the magic word “one”
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Wow, it’s the top story on the home page with this priceless headline – “Windows expert to Redmond: Buh-bye.” Cracks me up.
Yeah, this is HUGH!!!! Someone switched!!!!! A clear sign MS is finished!!!! WOOOO HOOOO Steve!!!!!
it’s a great time to be a mac head
Scot Finnie is my new best friend. I admire Scot for making sense. I respect Scot for his daring. I trust Scot with my feelings. I applaud Scot for his courage. I robbed Scot for his MacBook Pro.
Millions of other people knew this years ago. Has he been on the dark side of the moon or something?
I’m happy for the man. I’m happy for Apple. His software reviews were also very helpful. Thanks Scot.
Is any pro-Redmond pundit going to write an article that criticizes people like Scot for switching? If so, I can’t wait to read it. It will make for some humorous reading.
Nice to see someone “in the industry” making the claim to switch. It’s even funnier to see all the Windows-heads making false claims about “OS X patches blowing up in their faces.” Not sure exactly what they mean by that, but it sounds like someone trying to use a Windows analogy, which means, they have never used Mac OS X and they are simply making stuff up.
And, MDN, what’s with the actual moderating of this thread? That’s unusual.
…but he won’t get the WOW! factor with OSX.
WOW! Why the fsck is it so hard to add a printer?
WOW! Why the fsck do these trillions of menus and submenus not seem to contain the basic things I am looking for?
WOW! My machine is sure slow.
WOW! I think I just signed over my soul in the EULA.
I hate when switcher has a better mac than me.
i guess that 2007 and next years will be apple years because we are seeing impossible things come true.
“Yeah, this is HUGH!!!! Someone switched!!!!! A clear sign MS is finished!!!! WOOOO HOOOO Steve!!!!!”
Hey smart guy,
Perhaps you meant HUGE? “Hugh” is typically a man’s name.
I just spent three days house-sitting for a PC-using friend and used her computer
(a top-of-the-line Dell running Windows XP Professional )for internet access.
What a piece of crap! The funniest thing was that both browsers (Firefox and
Explorer) crashed repeatedly when trying to access the Apple website.
there are transient problems (switching over email) and there are steady state problems. most switcher articles spend too much time, i think, on the transient problems. they can’t be ignored, but once they are taken care of, however that occurs, then they are done.
CALL THE NATIONAL GUARD! ONE MORE PERSON SWITCHED! MICROSOFT IS DOOMED!
BWAAHHAAHHAAHAA! YOU’RE A JOKE!
Here’s the sad part. On the link to the article from the main blog page, it states:
“Windows expert to Redmond: Buh-bye
After a three-month Macintosh trial, Scot Finnie says “sayonara” to Windows,
but his search for Mac software goes on”
The end of it makes the switch sound negative to me. Like he is having trouble
finding the right Mac titles. It seems like one of the tired, old regurgitated myths
that keeps Windows users from trying Mac.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/opinionBlog.do?command=viewOpinionBlog
“Someone, anyone, make a better screenshot utility for the Mac. Let me suggest 10 features that I expect to find in a more advanced screenshot utility:”
Doesn’t he just need command-shift-3 and Photoshop, or am I crazy?
I appreciate Scot’s insight into finding regular-use Mac software. He knows what he’s talking about, and I expect he’ll have offer some great recommendations in coming articles as he adapts to the Mac metaphor.
Welcome Scot, and thanks for helping to spread the word – Windows simply isn’t necessary.
‘Yeah, this is HUGH!!!! Someone switched!!!!! A clear sign MS is finished!!!! WOOOO HOOOO Steve!!!!!
Windows guy—California pubic school. Hugh indeed!
Maybe mac fan is identifying himself as Hugh and he was excited about it.
10%-15% market share this year is becoming a reality.