Happy anniversary – my Macbook!
Yep! Its one-year since I’m using my Macbook (white). Since then 2 iterations of the laptop came with upgrades in processing and capabilities, but my Macbook still works great for me. It was a major transition from using Wintel desktops and later on only laptops to one fine day switching completely into the world of Mac OS X. Although, it took me some time to adapt but at the end, I would say investments in terms of time and finance have paid off really well.
The main reason to switch from Wintel was Worms and Viruses. I have strong belief that windows virus eco-system works in an Italian Mafia style – where MSFT lets the virus developers play with its un-patched/virus-friendly OS to comprise what ever glitch there can be to cause a users nightmares. I was in the middle of meeting with a foreign delegate with original XP, original-updated antivirus and suddenly the laptop crashed in front of me! It was then that I decided that enough is enough and since I have switched to Macbook.
I’ll highlight the likable things about the Apple & Mac OS X experience and my explorations yet!
- First, its not just another PC from xyz company selling windows pre-installed laptops – it’s an art form with carefully designed combination of Hardware & Software.
- Although, my experience started with Mac OS X Tiger, which was by all means perfect. Today Leopard has swayed it way further.
- I’m into recruitment and have to screen 100s of resumes a day in multiple formats. Usually you have to open the file in its respective application to view the contents and it can take some time. “Quick Look” is a lifesaver in this department. Not only you can view multiple formats like MS Word, Excel, PDF etc. etc., but also so easily. Just press space bar on any valid doc and viola, your quick look opens up.
- One Mac Book, multiple desktops – answer, Spaces! Initial reaction to this app is why one would need this. Once you get used too, then it’s real hard to escape from the experience.
- I’ve tried the other much-touted new features like Time Machine etc. in leopard but at the moment it I in my use. Time Machine is in Must To DO list; just need to gets hands on a decent backup medium.
- Other than recruitment, I use my Macbook as a regular Web Dev machine using Photoshop, Dreamweaver, FTP clients, PHP code editors, MySql clients and of course MAMP stack. It is an awesome experience.
- Finally — one complete year and no Virus afflictions ☺
I advise everyone to switch from MSFT hell (over a dozen converted), if your business/IT practices allow you this virus-free heaven. Otherwise, Boot Camp and multiple virtualization tools are available to let you run Windows side-by-side Mac OS X. Next year, I’ll be doing happy anniversary with Mac Book Pro ☺
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