[Swordmaker]

Revisit to David Alison, big time Windows expert, on his switch to Mac—PING!

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[snarks_when_bored]

Most recently, Alison has revealed that he believes in anthropogenic global warming, too. So it’s a win-win situation all around...

[Blue Highway]

I was quickly able to get the Mac Pro up and running with Windows XP and my development environment in a VMware Fusion instance. With a couple of minor exceptions it worked great

Here is a typical Apple users way of glossing over anything that will take away from Apple's prestige. I find it sneaky he specifically glosses over what these "minor exceptions" are. Would it have hurt to write a few sentences to document these "minor exceptions"?

If I bought a Ferrari and was not to thrilled with the way it shifted or something, after paying an exorbitant price for the Italian sports car, I too would probably brush it off as a "minor inconvenience", but... "oh how I love this Ferrari". See the similarity here?

[Cementjungle]

Before you know it you’ll be hanging out at Starbucks.

[nathanbedford]

Isn't the Internet wonderful? It is extraordinary the things we can learn about Mr. Allison. Here is a complete list containing the beginnings of each of this gentleman's paragraphs. I understand next week he is going to commence a blog describing the clipping of his toenails.

I will let the reader judge for himself the degree to which the author is afflicted with solipsism:

"I'm now just past

What I find

My entire

I rationalized

I was quickly

Not long after all this I started

Though it took me a month

On top of all that, it turns out most of the core Ruby on Rails guys are Mac people too. OS X already comes with RoR and the fact that I could use TextMate,

I suddenly found myself

Selling the XP rig gave me

Then, suddenly, the iPhone became part of our digital lives.

She now finally wants a Mac of her own and is going to get one for her birthday next month. I'll be writing about how she adapts to using it as well. Now that summer is winding down and our extended vacations are coming to an end I'll have a little more time to commit to blogging."

I can scarcely wait to hear the next episode in the excellent adventures of David Allison

[cynwoody]

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Nice article.

I was in the Apple Store yesterday for a One to One session on iMovie/iDVD.

As expected he answered my questions politely and professionally, and in retrospect I should have already tried the things he taught me - but that's not the way life works, is it?

Anyway, my wife was along - and she was impressed with the comfortable experience, and wished she'd brought her iPod along. Maybe next time . . .

While I was chatting with the rep the subject of Snow Leopard came up, and he mentioned a time frame for its introduction which was earlier than what I had supposed - then said, "I shouldn't have said that." My wife asked if he had sold Snow Leopard to me, and I pointed out that I was already just about sold so he didn't have to. She answered, "Oh, that's right - they don't do that." Which is true - they don't actually sell there - they pay attention to you, and answer questions if you have them - then just let you buy if you're going to.

I knew I'd like the larger screen of my new Mac, and I could easily have been talked into getting the 24" model instead of the 20. But they didn't push, and I settled, saving a little money. And I have found that I have wanted to lug it around when I have visited relatives, so as to be able to show some things. Which wouldn't have worked out if it had been any heavier . . .

The store was the busiest I'd seen it, and the rep said it was actually relatively quiet at the moment - said the macs have been moving. Back-to-school time . . .

[jjw]

mac vs. pc

[MarkL]

My Stepmother’s only complaint since moving from a WinTel box running WinXP to an iMac is that she doesn’t care for the Spider Solitaire game that we downloaded, and she misses the one that was part of WinXP... Other than that, she loves it.

Mark

[comps4spice]

Wow! That’s some switch. It’s users like yourself that make me happy I own Apple stock. Only wish I had bet the farm on it when I first bought it.

[B Knotts]

Not long after all this I started to look at Ruby on Rails as an option for development

Oh, I reckon he did. Ruby on Rails is probably not quite as bad as .NET, but it's probably close.

I was once duped into going down that road, so I know.

I know this is a bit off topic, but, IMO: There Are No Shortcuts.

The time you save in avoiding building an initial structure by using a development framework, is later lost in trying to track down obscure bugs/incompatibilities.

Again, IMO.

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[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"I had a Windows XP [rig] parked directly in front of me but I was constantly sliding my hands over to the MacBook."

That parallels my experience.

The Mac just requires less "thinking like a computer" of the user. That translates into productivity and creativity.

[mountainbunny]

About 8 months ago, I switched from Mac to a Dell running Linux/Windows. I boot Windows to do a few things, but work in Linux most of the time. This set-up work fine for me.

I miss my Mac a little; I’d used them for many years, but replacing the last one was not worth the cost/risk, seeing as how Apple’s customer service has become hit-and-miss.

I wish the author good luck, and hope he never needs a repair. Macs work fine until they break/ I found that the repair nightmare was simply not worth the hassle.

[Cold Heat]

Put the same effort into learning what VISTA can do, and you would be way ahead of the game and not tied to a overpriced windows hating club with some sort of blind mob mentality.

LOL