10 reasons why my next computer will be a Mac
May 24th, 2007 by Bart
I’ve been a long time Windows user, starting from the early pc days using win3.1-win3.11-win95-win98-winme-winnt-win2k-winxp. I even used dos 3.0 up to dos 6.0. (Anyone remembering these days??) I’ve seen Windows evolve from buggy (3.1) to very very buggy software (Millenium being the worst Windows ever) to rather stable windows xp. Sidenote: I still think Windows 2000 is the best os Microsoft has ever made.
But as windows evolved, it attracted malware/virus writers I think mainly because of having such a big market share. And I’ve just had it with viruses/spyware and other digital filth. Anyway I don’t care why Windows is “unsecure”, I want something that just works without hassle.
With my Dell laptop being 6 years old, it’s time to replace it. And I will replace it with an Apple Macbook Pro. The only thing holding me at this time is a pending release of new Macbooks Pro. I’m hoping for LED backlit displays resulting in better battery life and a brighter screen, Santa Rosa, …
Maybe a release at Apple WWDC in June?
Here’s the list:
- There are almost no known viruses/spyware on Macs.
- Hardware:it looks gorgeous, and the Macbook Pro’s are even among the best performing Windows laptops on the market.
- Nowadays more and more software runs on the internet thus the operating system is less important, and the “normal” software often also runs on Macs.
- no more reinstalls needed and less crashes.
- I want something that actually works.
- people will stop asking me to fix their computer (maybe I’ll tell them to buy a Mac).
- Lots of Windows software will probably still run on a mac (wine and ohter software will do this) The best option would be that it would run Windows software inside OS X.
- Macs works out of the box (that is the reason not to go for Linux)
- I hate genuine advantage system from xp (it cost me already 1 license) Actually thats what triggered me to make the switch to Apple.
- software and hardware are a perfect match. No more hardware issues as Apple makes both hard- and software.
And, if, in the very unlikely event that I really don’t like Mac OS X, I still can install Windows on the machine…
Bart
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