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A Switcher's thoughts on the MacBook Pro
Dvorak may claim that no one switched, but Todd Huss might disagree. You see, Todd is a former Windows user who has recently made the big jump to OS X, and he did it in style.Todd's first Mac ever is his brand spankin' new MacBook Pro, and he shares some of his thoughts about the machine on his blog. It is an interesting perspective that most Mac sites can't give you, so I suggest you check it out.Update: It looks like Todd's blog is down at the moment.Update II: And it is back!
Douglas Schweitzer, happy switcher
It warms the cockles of my heart, it does. Reading stories like the one penned by Douglas Schweitzer about his 2 year switch anniversary. Originally lured to the Mac camp by the wonderful promise of no spyware, fewer viruses, and security out of the box, Douglas came for the secure computing but stayed for the applications.Applications? But, Scott, surely you know as an acclaimed Apple pundit, that there are fewer Mac applications as compared to Windows. Yes, I do know that, but as Douglas discovered most Mac applications are about quality, not quantity.Douglas, here's to 20 more years of Mac bliss.
Yes Way, Expose!
In case you wondered if we bloggers ever click on the homepage links our readers submit with their tips and comments... we often do. And every now and then we are rewarded with something entertaining for our efforts. Clicking on fra's homepage link tonight, which I stumbled upon from one of his comments, brought me to a funny picture of a cat (and yes, I clicked it!). Move along, you say? Not so fast. Further down on the page, I came across a link to Joey Tran's Progeny Motion Picture Festival 2005 winner for Best Sound: "Ode to Mac, or: Yes Way, Expose!" Try it... you'll like it!
Switcher on Tiger
Whenever a new operating system comes out of the factory gates at Apple I am very excited. I can't sleep until I have installed it and fiddled with it for a few hours. However, all of that is meaningless until I know how one of Apple's famous Switchers feels about the OS.Luckily Jeremiah Cohick has heard my pleas and has just written about his second impressions about Tiger. Overall he recommends the update to all, however, he also thinks, 'surface features are mediocre and bugs abound.'It isn't enough to make him switch back though, and really isn't that all that matters?
Linux guy checks out Mac mini
Don't call Todd Ogasawara a switcher, he's a 'Curious Try-er,' which doesn't have the same ring to it, but hey it was his idea. He is a current Windows/Linux guy who has taken a chance and dipped his toe into the world of the Mac via the petite Mac mini.Overall Todd has a good experience (good enough to make him go out and purchase an iBook after he wrote the column) but the transition wasn't painless. He had trouble with his printer, and he had to download nearly 200 megs of updates from Apple (which in and of itself isn't a bad thing, it is just a reality of using software now a days).
