“Receiving a new primary computer for me has always been somewhat bittersweet; the excitement of the new machine is always offset by the pain of migrating from the old one,” Jason Clarke, longtime (former) Windows sufferer, reports for TUAW.
“When migrating from and old to a new Windows machine, I would always plan for two days of hell, followed by two weeks of minor (and sometimes major) aggravation when some utility that I needed in that moment had yet to be installed or configured. I had heard that Macs have a migration assistant, so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect,” Clarke reports.
“Well, tonight I connected the two machines [a MacBook received about 4 months ago and a brand new MacBook Pro] via a FireWire cable, and let the Migration Assistant do its thing… Hey, it knew my name and contact info already. Hey, it had my profile picture already set. Hey, that’s my desktop wallpaper,” Clarke reports. “Holy #$^*, all of my startup utilities are dutifully starting up, and my dock is identical to what it was on my MacBook!”
Clarke reports, “I have yet to find anything that doesn’t just work. I’d like to accuse all you long-time Mac types of keeping this secret from Windows users, but the truth is that you have been telling us, and we haven’t wanted to hear it. My biggest fear when getting my first Mac was that I didn’t want to become an elitist Mac snob – they drove me crazy. But now I realize it’s not their fault; when your computing platform is so noticeably better than Windows, it’s hard not to get a bit full of yourself. Just ask my family, friends and co-workers. Really.”
More in the full article – recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: Welcome, Jason! We love elitist Mac snobs!
Where’s Zune Tang’s comment ???
Mac good.
Snobs bad.
Don’t be obnoxious, you made a good choice, but its not a religion. Its a computer.
MDN word: Each. To each their own.
Who reads TUAW? Some Apple fans. Too bad this wasn’t in a major paper or magazine where the folks who need to know might read it..
Sometimes people who are in particularly better positions are mistaken for snobs, regardless of personality type.“
Elitist Mac snob = Blast It! Incomes.
@ TMF
Metabolic Snits
Do you know that snob spelled backward is bons?
What does this mean you ask?
It means it is friday afternoon and I am drwosy after lunch….
drwosy is secret code for drowsy.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
@ ChrissyOne
Solicits Batmen!
Welcome New Snob!!!
Just to contain your head so that it doesn’t swell too much, Always Drink Camel’s Milk!
As you fart, you will notice your head shrink back to its normal size!
@ TMF & C1
Incomes? Blast it!!!
It’s not elitism. We just hope everyone else would realize they could easily live a better life with a Mac. And just guess how I came up with this nick…
My wife and I rarely nag Windows users anymore, but look at each other and whisper “SHABAM” – short for ‘Should have bought a Mac’…
What’s a Wife?
@Holy Mackerel
SHABAM!!! ROTFLMAO!! I love it and I’m gonna use it!