Mac Follow-up

It has been a few weeks now since I picked up my first Mac - the little fella with a nice engine - a Mac Mini. Now that I have been using it for a while, here are some thoughts:

OS X (Tiger) is great. Period. I have been using Windows for years on end - I make my living as a geek - and I can honestly say OS X absolutely kills Windows XP. It runs smooth, fast, and without any hang-up’s. I thought Windows “freezes” and “hiccups” bothered me before - now they just piss me off.

Pray you don’t have to get inside. The Mac mini is not fun to open. Upgrading the RAM was a pain in the ass…but worth it.

Plug it in and go. One of my favorite things about my Mac is that is just seems to know what to do. The first time I plugged my digital camera in, voila, transfer complete. Easy and intuitive. The “plug it in and go” theory has held true with everything I have tried. Even my troublesome all-in-one printer works perfectly on the Mac - it never worked very well on my PC(s).

I still need both. There is no escaping the fact that I need both a Mac and PC. As an IT guy, I must work with and support PC users. In addition to my work requirement I have spent a great sum of money on software and hardware for my PC(s). I just can’t afford to buy everything again just for my Mac.

I will now differentiate between work and personal computing. My personal computing will now be Mac-centric. I just don’t see why I would use a Windows machine for things like email, web browsing, photo and movie management, and so forth. OS X just kicks ass.

I will purchase a high-end Mac. Now that I have determined that a Mac fits my needs, I will move to a higher-end model. When the time and price is right I will gladly fork over the money.

In a nutshell, my review of the Mac Mini is: 2 thumbs way up!