“I didn’t wake up one day and say ‘Wow, I hate Windows. I’m going to switch to Mac,'” Alison explains. “I bought a little white MacBook, put it on the desk next to my primary Windows machine and started playing with it. Though technically underpowered compared to the dual screen, custom built PC I spent all of my time on, I found myself constantly reaching over to the MacBook to use it. The environment was fresh and new to me and I began to really enjoy the user interface consistency that OS X and the vast majority of Mac applications shared.”
“For such a small device the performance was excellent too; though it was the least expensive of the MacBook line of computers it didn’t feel like a compromised machine,” Alison reports. “Applications loaded quickly and I could run several large applications at once and see very little performance impact. In the past when I purchased the least expensive Windows based laptops the machine was barely usable out of the box; it needed to be cleaned of all the “extra” applications and within a month of using it the performance would start to deteriorate. Not so with the Mac.”
“In relatively short order I went from having a MacBook to purchasing a Mac Pro, which replaced my primary Windows desktop,” Alison reports. “Whereas the MacBook was quick, the Mac Pro was—and still is—remarkably fast. With dual 2.8Ghz quad core Xeons and 12GB of RAM, I was suddenly able to run a huge number of applications seamlessly.”
Alison writes, “The bottom line is I’m really happy I decided to ‘try out’ that MacBook two years ago. Computing—as a software developer the place I spent a huge number of my waking hours—became fun and exciting again.”
Full article, including several useful “Tips For New Switchers,” here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “qka” for the heads up.]