Why On Earth Have I Purchased A Mac?

If you had asked me a couple of weeks ago what I thought about Apple Macs I would have told you about our recent purchase at work. We had an Apple Mac turn up and after I had put Office 2008 on it I went on the internet, found the ToysRus logo, printed off several copies and everywhere on the box where the Apple logo was, I stuck the ToysRus logo over the top!

I even stuck one on the back of the desktop unit! In other words it’s nothing more than a very expensive toy!

To this day (including now that I own one), I would say they are nothing more than an over-priced status symbol. Everything you can do on a Mac you can do on an IBM Compatible PC such as Dell or HP/Compaq – and at a lot cheaper price to boot! (As time passes and I get to know more about Macs this current thinking may change)!

So why have I brought one myself then???

Simple, there are 2 types of hardcore computer users, one lot are IBM Compatible PC users who hate anything Mac and don’t want anything to do with them and the other lot are Mac users who despise anything Microsoft based and think Macs are the best things ever!

As a IBM compatible PC guy I have spotted a niche in the market and I’m going to learn about Mac’s from and IT Technical Support point of view as well as ‘proper’ PCs!

I looked at the price of a course and the cost of a laptop and saw that a proper course was more than a laptop cost so I decided to get a laptop and learn things that way.

Within 24 hours of having my new MacBook I have already upgraded the hard disk drive by swapping it out for the large 320GB SATA Hard Disk Drive that I removed from the USB hard disk drive that I had recently purchased for backing up my work on.

I used Time Machine to backup all my files at the click of ONE button (not millions like you would have to on a Windows based machine), I then re-installed OS X (learnt pretty quickly how to partition a drive) and then restored from my Time Machine backup.

After re-doing the OS Updates I was then fully back up and running without any issues what-so-ever.

Upgrading the hard disk was a much simpler and easier task than that of a Windows based PC so I’m starting to see some of the advantages of using Macs…

I Have A Confession To Make...

Not in a million years did I think I would say what I’m about to say…

Despite only having a Mac for literally a matter of days, I have no choice but to take back everything I have ever said about Mac’s.  I’ve tried my hardest to make it go wrong, I’ve tried to pick fault with it – yet whatever application/feature I try (and no matter what I do) I end up being impressed.

I have to say purchasing a Mac has got to have been one of the best ideas I have ever had!  Simple, complex, versatile, technical, non-technical, easy, fast and fantastic! These are just some of the words that can describe Apple Mac’s!  Simple to use, as complex as you want it to be, versatile because right out of the box it can do almost anything! Technical enough for the IT Professionals yet so easy to use anyone can quickly start using all their features!