Mac in my life

Owning a Macintosh is like owning a part of history. Even for a techie, doing the switchover from an all pervasive Windows world to the Macintosh world is not an easy decision. Its a change. A real change. And, a change is easier said than done. Change in this case, is to forget all those shortcut keys you have known. Forget the windows key you imbibed. Also, more importantly forget to get everything working right out of the box. I have a hard disk, that is at least 4 times bigger than my previously owned laptop offered me, yet with a Mac, I cannot just write into this disk without formatting into HFS+ format. What would I do with almost 200 Gig of data??? trash them in a trash can??? Booooo.....

But then, as Steve Jobs used to say, thats what makes it exciting. Today Macs are, as always, beautifully designed and one has got a great sales man in Steve "Apple" Jobs. Just watch one of his product presentations. He makes you feel like "you wana own one of these beauties". But, is this the one which convinced me to buy a 2.16 GHz Macbook. Well, I would say, not just that. Many more. You get into a world something new. A macworld. Full of street smart techies. A world that you won't be able to experience unless you own a Mac. On top of that, with Bootcamp, Mac lets you get more productive by letting you install a Windows. Did I say, I already been there, done that. Now, I have a dual booting system.

Having windows and Leopard on a Macbook is attractive for me. Windows makes a life lot easier for all those lazy whizkids. It makes me more productive with a tool that I use all the time at work and home. MS-Office. Well I know, if you are a Mac guy, you would chip in with "we do have Office for Mac". But dude, you know what, that doesnt sell to me. Office is something I know on Windows and am comfortable using on Windows. For doing something knew, I would rather use Neooffice on Mac than using Windows. You know, the whole point being learning something new. whats the point in using MS office on Mac, again??

So here is the bottomline. I love Mac, but unlike die hard Mac and Linux fans, I don't hate Windows. Like Steve Jobs said then, in 1997, and more recently in the 2007 "D" conference, Apple can gain a lot "working together" with Microsoft, than "working against" Microsoft. This really sells!