Switch to Mac

A year ago, I started a post about year one as a Mac owner…

I’ve had my beloved PowerBook for about a year now. Here is what I have learned.

A computer is a computer no matter which OS you run. Of course this one has never crashed but apps do hang once in a while. There are things I miss from Windows and I’ve been using Ubuntu and Fedora Core at work and they’re pretty cool as well.

I dislike that Apple hasn’t provided an ‘Empty the Trashcan’ button, nor a ‘Restore this item’ button when dealing with deleted files. The Finder isn’t the greatest file manager but it’s much more stable the Windows.

Apple hardware is simply gorgeous. The backlit keyboard, the crisp display; the attention to detail is just beautiful.

That was as far as I got before getting distracted by who knows what. I’ve been staring at the draft for a year and here I am at two years. It’s safe to say that this is the best computer I’ve ever owned. I paid through the nose for it but so do BMW owners and you don’t see them complaining.

I was giving thought to upgrading recently but have since decided against it. I could certainly get good money for my PowerBook as they hold their value really well but I really don’t need it. I’m not the geek that I once was; I have a laptop and a dedicated media PC connected to the TV. Not the four machines that once used to keep my apartment toasty and do all sorts of dedicated and wonderfully geeky things.

Plus, I have many other things to buy like new sheets, flatware, ‘real’ furniture, matching towels, shirts with collars, sensible shoes and one of those bed skirt thingys who’s utility to this day, baffles me. Apparently I we really need one. “Um, ok…”

To be fair, MiHwa is all over the whole LCD TV thing. I bristled at first even though I like the idea. My trusty Samsung is still going strong but it is the size of a dishwasher. Now that the computer is connected to the TV, I’m all for an LCD. The only debate now is over size with her wanting a much larger one than I think is required. Perhaps she’s trying to tell me something…

We still need to get her an iPod and a laptop. I’m dismayed that she doesn’t want a Mac but I still love her. At times I wish I could be happy with a PC. $1000 buys a smoking laptop and I know Ubuntu would go on there with no trouble at all. Still, as much as I love Ubuntu it wouldn’t be a Mac.

So I will soldier forth with my PowerBook. There isn’t a day that passes where I don’t appreciate some little detail about it. Someday I will buy a new one and I’m sure it will serve me equally as well.