“Despite having been a life-long Mac user, I’m actually thinking of switching sides. Mac to PC. Freshen things up a bit,” Paul McKenzie reports for The Independent. “My iBook G4 (circa 2004) has seen better days.”
McKenzie tried the following PCs:
• Sony Vaio Z31 series running Windows Vista Business
• Hewlett Packard Pavilion Notebook dv3-2100 running some flavor of Vista (we assume; McKenzie neglects to say)
• Dell Studio 1555 with Windows Vista
Then he tries a new Apple MacBook Pro: “This is the Rolls Royce of laptops. All the software I know and love has been updated – and how! Safari has a few new tricks, iMovie is unrecognisable and the face detection software in iPhoto is straight out of ‘Blade Runner.’ The Leopard operating system is as good as it gets. Navigating through my various files, pictures and documents couldn’t have been easier, because of the new cover flow set-up and the MacBook Pro’s ability to split screen. There’s also seamless integration between emails and calendar dates.”
McKenzie writes, “One thing that I’ve learnt is that, although Apple has only a 10% share of the market, more PC users wish they owned a Mac than vice-versa. I think I can see why. Having used a Mac for all of my journalistic life, I’ve seen nothing on the other side that could make me switch – although the Dell Studio 1555 gave me reason to think. I also feel that too much is made of the ‘Macs are expensive’ argument – given the relative high cost of some high-end PCs. In both cases, you get what you pay for. So I’m going to treat myself to a MacBook Pro. Why? Because I’m worth it.”
Full article, including McKensie’s oft-funny descriptions of the various craptops he tried before coming to his senses, here.
MacDailyNews Take: This exercise was obviously concocted to generate a newspaper article because everyone knows: Once you go Mac, you never go back.
Mac OS users have made a conscious technology choice and are therefore typically better informed than their peers. – Paul Thurrott, December 06, 2004