“I’ve been a Microsoft Windows user since Windows 3.1. I remember the day I upgraded to Windows 95 and it felt like going from the stone age to the iron age – the Start Menu seemed like a great idea and it looked fantastic – my world was changed forever. I’ve been using Windows ever since and as soon as the latest version – Windows Vista – was released, I installed it and started using it day-to-day,” John Conners (developer of John’s Background Switcher (Windows-only), among other apps) blogs for John’s Adventures.
Fast forward a bit and Conners writes, “Quite frankly, I’ll never buy another PC. Everything they say about Macs is true – ‘it just works.’ You get so used to having to tweak Windows to get things to work correctly, from graphics cards to the registry to a hundred other things. Not so on the Mac.”
Conners writes, “You get lots of useful, creative software bundled with a Mac, called iLife. The software all integrates really well and lets you create music using Garage Band (there are hundreds of loops you can use to create very professional music – oh, and you can sing or record your own instruments too), manage and edit your photos in iPhoto, play music in iTunes, make movies with iMovie and there’s a host of other things that are fun and creative. The software is very well thought out and easy to use, taking the power of great GUI design to a level I’ve never seen before on Windows. For the first time in a long time I’ve felt a surge of creativity since getting my Mac – suddenly I want to try and write music, create a movie and do a whole bunch of other things I’d never have thought about on a PC.”
“So far I’ve managed to persuade one friend to buy himself a Mac and you might be next! The thing is, you just need to sit down and use one for 5 minutes to realise that you’ll never want to go back to a PC again. Do believe the hype,” Conners writes.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: Welcome, John!
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Is MDN documenting these cases one by one? It certainly seems like it based on the story lists.
Woooo Hooooo MDN, what a SCOOP!!!!
Hey, I started using DOS in 1982 before switching to a Mac in 2004 (for home only)!
Maybe we can alert the media!!!!! BIG news stories you’re reporting!
The news that Mac is better than is thirty-five thousand years old. Where have these people been?
We are in the midst of a tipping point.
It will happen all in the “Blink” of an “iMac”
John Connor? Sarah’s son?
John is apparently a Windows developer with a sizable customer base. If your buddy Skeezer who bought a MacBook isn’t, that’s why John’s case is on MDN and Skeezer’s isn’t.
now he gets to experience an empty wallet due to the desire to replace every pc desktop and laptop in the house with a mac. I’m still working on that.
Why did you buy the PC machines you are replacing in the first place. As an OG mac user, never wasted money on PC’s that would off set this so called ‘high priced’ mac Hardware. Its not high priced when you realize its value.
I am so tired of the term PC being used to describe windows machines – it’s misleading. Now even Apple’s doing it….
Every single instance of “PC” in the article above should be replaced with “Windows Computer” –
/rant
sorry.
(Apple makes the best Personal Computers)
Sunlokyee
tell me about it,
I switched last July, iMac 20″, was going to hand me down the HP to one of the kids, instead bought a mini and used the moniter, since then we have just purchased our 3rd MacBook, wife and 2 kids in University.
I am actually dreading the release of the iPhone
Good.The Resistance is safe now. The machines will not have such an easy time taking over the world now.
It’s alllllllllll happening according to plan. Steve’s plan, that is.
It’s so enjoyable to see. Truly, we can say we all were alive when the worm started to turn . . . and grow.
And speaking of worms starting to grow, it’s time for me to go “git buzy wit my hubby.”
Saweeeeeeeeet.
Have you seen this boy?
hey! i’m a switcher too! i used to use a TI “Speak & Spell” before i went Mac, and now i’ll never look back!!!
Well, John, I’m afraid that when you bought the Mac you de facto were buying a PC. But a PC that runs OS X. So….this will last you till the end of days?
Anyway, congrats. But you’ll come back. Mwahahaha
Question. How many articles do you see about a reporter joyfully switching from a Mac to a PC? Just curious?
These stories are all basically the same. They grow tiresome. MDN, please no more for a while. OK?
“Question. How many articles do you see about a reporter joyfully switching from a Mac to a PC? Just curious?”
Good one, HMCIV! LOL! Like that would ever happen.
I hope he becomes a Mac developer.
“I am so tired of the term PC being used to describe windows machines – it’s misleading. Now even Apple’s doing it….
Every single instance of “PC” in the article above should be replaced with “Windows Computer” -“
While techinically correct, the term PC has been taken over to become a generic term for Windows-based Personal Computers. So you now have PCs, Macs, and Linux Computers.
Even though I agree with you, it is similar to asking for facial tissue vs. Kleenex or copier vs. xerox machine or search engine vs Google. Alas.
Like it or not the term “PC” has become synonymous with the Windows personal computer. About 4 people on earth think otherwise and they are just being ornery.
“Do Believe the Hype” – someone should trademark this.
A “PC” now means a windows computer.
The word “gay” never used to mean homosexual, but now it does, and you can’t separate the two.
You can’t turn back the clock, and you can’t stop the evolution of language.
MDN word “slowly” as things are slowly shifting away from Microsoft.
Switcher stories warm the cockles of the true Mac enthusiasts heart. It’s great to see the light come on for somebody.
Rock-on MDN!