Is there a Macintosh in Your Life?
I keep reading of people switching from Windows to Macintosh. For example, in his Working Smart blog, Michael Hyatt writes:
The best part of the Mac experience so far is that the technology simply works. I have yet to experience software conflicts, viruses and spyware infections, and endless tinkering and tweaking. Installing a printer, an Apple Airport Express, or some other peripheral is easy and painless. The bottom line is that I am simply spending more time getting real work done. And that’s what I was hoping for by making the switch.
I bought a Macintosh Powerbook for my wife. 12 inch screen, 768 megs of ram and a cd/dvd burner (superdrive in Mac parlance). So far it’s been a pretty good experience. I’ll give you one example. We wanted the Macintosh to be able to accept the memory stick from our Sony camera, so we got a 12–in-1 USB card reader. There were no drivers to install, we just plugged in the card reader. We put the memory stick into the card reader and the little iPhoto button literally started jumping up and down and then opened up asking us if we wanted to download the pictures to our computer. Simple, easy and it worked. Who can ask for more?
It’s too early to know whether there’s an office switch in my future, but it’s interesting to play with the technology and see what it can do.
I have been using a Mac in my law practice since last August. My only comment is this: WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG. I would agree, it just works. No more blue screen of death. No more daily crashes and no more VIRUS worries. I would never go back to a windows machine. No way, no how.
