Macbook Pro 17” is my first Mac, and I adore it! You won’t be sorry. Not once have I said “I hate you” to my Macbook. I say it on a regular and repeated basis to my hubby’s Compaq and to the pc’s at work. :)
Welcome to the club. I guess that makes you a Mac fangrrl, lol.
My first exposure to the PC was right out of college in the mid-eighties. Lotus 1-2-3 on a pre-Windows DOS IBM machine. Everybody was so impressed that it wasn’t a dumb box of a Honeywell, but it was honestly miserable. I can still hear the racket that dot matrix printer made, continuously. A year later, I went to work with a graphics company, and began working with the Mac, the first generation with a decent sized color monitor and the processing power to handle the sort of files generated in PostScript.
I’ve used them ever since for my work, although I do use Windows machines for other tasks. The difference between the two has narrowed considerably over the years, but the Mac is by far and away the more pleasant to use. It just works.
I’ve owned a Mac clone, made by Power Computing in Texas. Apple is right to avoid allowing this to happen again. It worked better than a contemporary Windows PC, but that’s not saying much. It’s still somewhere in the house, probably up in the attic, put back in the original box. It wouldn’t make a good aquarium, unlike very early Macs, but I can’t bring myself to toss it, so there it sits. Still have a retired beige G3 tower too. Am I a hoarder, lol?