Well, I have been a PC tech for about 20 years then, in a Microsoft shop. I had always wanted a Mac, but they were always so expensive, and I also liked building my own computer.
About the time that Windows 7 came out, we were looking at it for our clients. This was right after Microsoft's big flop of Vista. (what a piece of crapware that was.) So, me being the diligent tech that I am, open a command prompt, to find that the version that they call "Windows 7" is actually Windows version 6.1. This got me very angry. Who did Microsoft think they were, trying to dupe people into thinking that this was a whole new operating system, when all they did was create a new shell. It was merely window dressing for the crappy product, the kernel of the operating system, which was merely Vista warmed over with some bug fixes and such.
I found a place that was discounting a MacBook, so I bought it. The hard drive was rather small, and there wasn't much memory, but it seemed to keep up with Windows machines that had much greater resources. The tinkerer in me decided to upgrade, and I went to the computer shop, and purchased more memory, and a larger hard drive. I had a screamer on my hands. Then a year after, the same small chain of computer stores that I purchased my first Mac at was opening a new store, and had a $300 discount on a MacBook Pro. I sold the white MacBook to a friend, and bought the Pro. Again, I had to upgrade the hard drive and RAM, but it was a breeze. I got a program called VMWare Fusion which allows you to run other operating systems on the machine, while having OSX running. I could run Windows on the Mac, and support my users with a very cool package. I still do. One slow day at work, I installed every OS that we had. Windows 3.1 with DOS 5, NT, 95, 98, Millenium, XP, and 7 were now on my PC, and I could support ANYTHING we ever had. (I play around with different distros of Linux too, so I put a couple of them in VMs as well).
This machine is my baby. For the past 3 (?) years it has gone back and forth to work with me, and still performs like a champ. The battery life isn't too shabby either, for something its age. (I may have to replace them in another 3 years, but that shouldn't be a problem for me.) Mackey, as I like to call him, may have some dents, and battle scars, but he still helps me every day support the 2000+ users that I am responsible for, all of them running Windows of some sort or another.
Last year I spent my tax return for a bigger MacBook Pro that I use to edit photos, and do a little desktop publishing, along with everything else that most people do on their computers. And if I thought my work machine was a screamer, the home machine is even faster!
Since I went with Apple at home, I don't think that I will ever go back to Microsoft. The more I learn about how the Mac works, as opposed to how Windows works, the more I am impressed with Apple. It makes me believe that folks at Cupertino who developed the software actually thought about the end user, and didn't just get orders from on high to write some code that can be shoveled to the users.
That's my silly story, not that anyone is interested, but perhaps someone may find it interesting.
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