Originally posted by Robert Hayes:
...there's really no point in doing anything in Windows unless you're a .Net developer.
I entered the Mac realm on April 29 (Tiger's release date), when I replaced my IBM notebook with a Mac PowerBook.
Windows has taught us to expect (indeed,
accept) problems with virtually everything we try to do, so despite Mac's "just works" reputation, I fully expected a difficult transition -- or at least a significant learning curve. So the laptop was my "pilot," and I thought that if all went well, I
might replace my Windows XP desktop with a Mac in a year or so.
Working with the PowerBook, I realized almost immediately that I wouldn't be able to tolerate another year with my Windows machine. So I started putting aside the money, and 2 days ago I bought an iMac.
Now, what's a person to do with a Pentium box? I'm tempted to experiment with Linux, although I don't think I'm enough of a geek-a-zoid to get very far. It seems that those of us who are not full-fledged zoids have only 2 options: Windows or Mac. And unlike Bear, I don't have the closet space to store PCs, so I suspect my parents are about to get another Dell.