This week I made the switch from PC to Mac. No this isn’t a belated April Fool’s — I am now the proud owner of a brand new iBook. Now admittedly I do still own a PC and I had already started the move towards Apple when I bought an iPod, but this is still a major change for me.
I decided to switch for a number of reasons:
- I wanted a new laptop that was truly portable. My Dell Latitude laptop has been a trusty companion for many a year now, but is beginning to show it’s age: the battery doesn’t hold it’s charge properly, some of the keys work only sporadically and it’s not the speediest of machines.
- I wanted to try out OS X. I had long admired an operating system that could combine “the power of UNIX with the simplicity and elegance of the Macintosh”.
- I wanted to be able to test on a Mac the web sites and Firefox customizations that I develop.
iBook
With these requirements in mind I decided to go for a 12″ iBook with 640MB of memory. I went back and forth between an iBook and a PowerBook, but eventually decided that the extra cost of the PowerBook was just not worth it for what I needed.
I have had the iBook for a few days now and I am loving it. It is small, portable, quick enough for my needs and OS X is quite simply a joy to use. I am still getting used to it having never used a Mac in earnest before, but overall I am extremely happy.
Congratulations!
iBooks are just great! Mine is alredy one year old, and so far
it has been very reliable and fun to use. I mainly use Linux on it, but
even if I don’t get the adventages of the OSX/Apple hardware combo
it is worth it. Great battery capacity, light, compact. It is my favourite computer so far!
Excellent! I lugged a thinkpad around for a few years and would never go back now that I have my powerbook.
Do yourself another favor and give LaunchBar or Quicksilver a try.
http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/
http://blacktree.com/apps/quicksilver/
–Jerry
p.s. thank you for the webdeveloper plugin