BONG! Welcome to Macintosh

Am I the only person who still whispers, "Welcome to Macintosh" upon hearing the Mac start-up sound, even though that message stopped appearing on our screens years ago? It's Pavlovian, I swear. Hello, TUAW readers, I'm Christina Warren and I'm a new member of the TUAW (and also the Download Squad) team. My excitement over Leopard's impending release is only tempered by my genuine geek glee at the opportunity to blog about it, and other Apple products, here at TUAW.

I'm a reformed hardcore PC/Windows/Linux advocate turned Mac fan girl and though my status as a full-time switcher is still pretty new, I have been using the Mac since 1995. I'll admit, I was tentative about the transition at first; I told myself I would never be one of those people who espouses about Apple and the Mac like it is a religion. Cut to 48-hours after I bought my MacBook: I'm on the phone with my mom, plaintively telling her that her next laptop will be a Mac, no ifs ands or buts. I've even had to start biting my tongue, lest the dreaded "well if you had a Mac, it would just work" roll out, when I get a frantic phone call from some friend or relative (ahem, DAD) who somehow broke their networking protocol - and cut off the rest of their house from Wi-Fi, leaving the other computers, printer, and TiVo in a state of confusion.

And my specs, for people that are interested:
Black MacBook 2.16 C2D, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD, two external drives, including one set as a Boot Camp/Fusion/Paralells partition that I look forward to reconfiguring on Friday, or as it is known in iCal - "Leopard Day!"