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The decision to switch was not easy for me. I’ve used Macs for about 15 years. I loathe Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, and Bill Gates. I scoffed at Windows users feeble attempts to justify their platform of choice. I convinced many friends, family members, and co-workers to switch to the Mac. So, why am I switching? </p> </div> <a name="read"></a>  <div class="wrapper_comments"> <h3>Reader Comments (89)</h3> <div class="frame_comments_one"> <p><strong>Blad_Rnr</strong> said:</p> <p>Good luck with that decision. I know the Russian Mafia hopes people will continue to use Windows computers. </p> <div class="posted">#1 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_two"> <p><strong>Mark Fuller</strong> said:</p> <p>Mine work just fine. I have more Macs then some businesses. Cool, there always has to be someone who swims upstream. </p> <div class="posted">#2 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_one"> <p><strong>Nick</strong> said:</p> <p>good luck with your switch, you’ll need it..a coworker recently switched to a mac from years of pc use and he regrets…...not switching SOONER..not only that, but his fiance like his mac so much he had to wait his turn while her pc sat there all alone… </p> <div class="posted">#3 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_two"> <p><strong>Johnny Deax</strong> said:</p> <p>Well, that announcement is something of a surprise but mirrors my own experience. I was fed up with XP and my friends convinced me to buy a Mac. The Mac has been in the shop three times. Hard disk failure. Power supply failure. Screen failure.</p> <p>I really like using OSX but going back to Windows isn’t something I’m willing to do.</p> <p>Yet. </p> <div class="posted">#4 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_one"> <p><strong>Steve Ballmer</strong> said:</p> <p>I wish you the best of luck. You’ll need it. Vista is anything but trouble free. My PowerMac G5 has been running for about four years without one problem. </p> <div class="posted">#5 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_two"> <p><strong>Jan Bartholomew</strong> said:</p> <p>Say it ain’t so, Kate!!! What happened??</p> <p>True, Macs are not perfect, but switching to Windows? Maybe it’s just the wrong time of the month for you!! </p> <div class="posted">#6 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_one"> <p><strong>steve</strong> said:</p> <p>wow, I’ve been following your columns since the old days and I can’t believe you’re leaving especially now that the times are good.</p> <p>I agree Apple has bitten off more than they can chew at the moment, getting Leopard and the iPhones out the door at the same time did cost in quality.</p> <p>But I think Apple has admitted that with the Snow Leopard announcement and will now regroup and come back with the stability we used to take for granted.</p> <p>Its funny how you mention that you’ll go back to Apple when they bring something exciting to the table, and then note how well your iPhone and iTunes acts now. So that doesn’t count? Are the bundled apps as good as iLife?</p> <p>The bottom line is that MS hasn’t brought anything exciting to the table since Word 5.0, while if anything Apple is guilty of innovating too quickly for its own good.</p> <p>Anyway, I’m sure we’ll see you back the first time you try and use a new scanner or printer or network, and find how thin the Vista veneer is.</p> <p>Feel like I’m losing an old friend <img src="http://pixobebo.com/images/smileys/wink.gif" width="19" height="19" alt="wink" style="border:0;" />... </p> <div class="posted">#7 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_two"> <p><strong>Switcher Dan</strong> said:</p> <p>I switch because Windows XP drove me bananas. Often. I thought the Mac would be the end of my computer troubles but it was only the beginning. Crashes. Fried hard drive. Buggy OS. Don’t get me started on the problems with my iPhone 3G.</p> <p>It seems odd for someone to switch from Macs BACK to Windows, but, honestly, and in the words of Chris Rock regarding O.J. Simpson, “I understand.”</p> <p>Good Luck. You will probably need it. </p> <div class="posted">#8 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_one"> <p><strong>Stan Carter</strong> said:</p> <p>Apple sure has dug themselves into a hole recently. I read somewhere that Apple has better customer service and satisfaction than Dell. That is not saying much. I like my MacBook Pro but it has been more troublesome than I expected after switching from a Sony Vaio that ran XP. My Mac just works with printers and scanners and software is easier to install. I just wish OSX Leopard ran as good as everyone said it would run. </p> <div class="posted">#9 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_two"> <p><strong>Billy da Kid</strong> said:</p> <p>You’re kidding, right? This is a holiday hoax, right?</p> <p>Seriously? I have an iMac and a MacBook and they have worked flawlessly from day one. The daily computer experience is so much more pleasant than my years of laboring in the Windows mines.</p> <p>I love my Macs. I would be crazy to switch back.</p> <p>Of course, my iPhone G3 problems would fill a book of complaints.</p> <p>Grrrrrrr!! </p> <div class="posted">#10 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_one"> <p><strong>Gatesbashed</strong> said:</p> <p>After being beaten up by Windows XP for five years, I switched to a Mac. It has not been a switch without some speed bumps and a ditch or two along the way, but I ENJOY using my Mac, even with the problems. I NEVER enjoyed using Windows. Ever. As in Never Ever. </p> <div class="posted">#11 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_two"> <p><strong>Suspended Belief</strong> said:</p> <p>I can’t believe you are actually switching to Windows. OMG!! WTF!!</p> <p>Sure, Apple isn’t perfect and Macs are really just expensive PCs with a better operating system, but… Windows???</p> <p>Sigh. Double sigh. Kate, we hardly knew ye! </p> <div class="posted">#12 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_one"> <p><strong>iggy pence</strong> said:</p> <p>This can’t be. A Mac user switching to Windows?</p> <p>Has that ever happened in the whole history of Macs? </p> <div class="posted">#13 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_two"> <p><strong>the killer</strong> said:</p> <p>It seems to me that your argument is that there isn’t much difference between Microsoft and Apple, and that Macs and Apple products are as trouble prone as everyone else’s products, so go with what’s cheap and works. Is that right?</p> <p>Do you honestly believe that the Mac is the same as Windows? That PCs, when they work, are as good as Macs when they work?</p> <p>Or, have you just grown tired of technology and all the handholding required to make things work?</p> <p>I hear you. I don’t agree with your decision. But I hear you. Good luck. </p> <div class="posted">#14 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_one"> <p><strong>Pecos Bill</strong> said:</p> <p>I guess you’ll need to change your site’s tagline.</p> <p>I use XP at work every day. Consider myself a power user. I’ve used Macs since 85, bought my first in 87. Definitely power user.</p> <p>That said, I see your frustrations and raise you a miserable user experience on Windows. I’ve used Vista too. Basic, that is. (You never mentioned which your HP has.) Vista (Basic at least), is liptstick on a pig. They both are giant kludges. If you’re a power user (bet you are), you’ll start to find things that piss you off. Then, you’ll build a tough skin in order to survive. Oh, I’m typing this while I wait for Outlook to get its head out of dark smelly places and do something. I expect the Apple’s apps to behave on OS X and M$ apps to do the same on WIndreck. Most of Apple’s do. Most of M$ don’t from my experience as they all have hiccups.</p> <p>Other things to note: antivirus software, a requirement on Windows (maybe soon on a Mac), will slow your computer. Keyboard shortcuts SUCK BEYOND BELIEF. Do you like cmd-shft-N to make a new folder? How’s this Alt-F-W-F ? ... but NOT on the desktop as you MUST use the mouse. (I still think new folders should be cmd-n without shift.) Oh, holding ctrl—instead of cmd—positionally hurts my hand. Typing em-dash instead of—hurts my brain as it’s alt-9999 but don’t know what that magic number is. I like my opt-shift- - . Someone at M$ needs to rethink having a simple press of a modifier doing something. Why is it that I can press and release ctrl all day (by itself) but as soon as I do something with the others, they act?). I desipise the home/end keys. I don’t like having end right next to the forward delete! I hate the insert key so much that I removed it from my keyboard. The ONE thing that M$ fixed with Vista is the window management system now works the same as OS X: double buffering. No more window crap poking through other windows and drawing a sh!t-tastic GUI. Instead, with Aero, if you have a multitude of windows visible, you get them all transparently bleeding through the borders. Quite ugly. You will need to know that win-M will hide all that ugly (Laptop users might not care). Oh, the registry is still there in all it’s cr@ptastic glory. That means that your computer will slowly lose performance IF you install & remove apps on a somewhat normal basis. (Not sure if a registry cleaner actually helps). The reason is the stuff dumped in there is almost never cleaned out. Some of it points to code that is gone but the OS still tries to load (prefetch). So, you wait while it does that. If something goes wrong with the OS and you have to reinstall it, you get the fun of reinstalling ALL YOUR APPS. Unlike OS X, there is no archive and install. Reinstalling Windreck wipes the registry. The only way (I know of) to rebuild the app data you need is to reinstall the apps again. Be sure to set aside a full day. More gripes: like windoids? Windows has them in spades. They’re these TINY little pref panes that spawn like mad because only a few settings fit. Perfect example is the nightmare that is Outlook. I can almost never find anything in there. Many a day has at least one plead to Windows to suck less (I know, pointless). Vista might have fixes XP’s useless search function as they copied (ish?) Spotlight. The damn task bar is still horrid. You use muscle memory whether you know it or not. The taskbar kills that as the damn things move all the time. One function of the OS is to group them into a single pop up if one app’s gets plethoric. I’ve seen times where my apps are hiding in the folder group. (Apple could improve some here:) I’ve found way too many cases where window focus is stolen from me my a windows app. Multitasking in Windows core is far less responsive than OS X. </p> <p>Apple has a lot of fixing to do. As they are doing with Snow Leopard, they know they need to slow down and rightly so. Alas, some of the problems are now endemic in specific Macs and will require hands-on cleaning. I know that my ages old Mail folder had to be rebuilt from scratch (using IMAP). I think I did that early in the Tiger era. All the prior versions of Mail had done their toll on the files.</p> <p>Be sure to let M$ know. I’m sure they would LOVE to parade you around with Seinfeld. (You’re not the first, though.) </p> <div class="posted">#15 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_two"> <p><strong>veggiedude</strong> said:</p> <p>I can’t even type properly on a Windows machine. Have you ever noticed if you want to delete one character, Windows won’t let you. It will make you delete the entire word, if not the entire sentence. Been using a PC now 10 years at the office and in all this time I thought they would have fixed that, but no. </p> <p>I can can type on my Mac. I can’t type on a PC. How ridiculous is that? This is just one of at least 50 annoyances that Windows hinders my productivity at work.</p> <p>Good luck with Vista. </p> <div class="posted">#16 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_one"> <p><strong>Pecos Bill</strong> said:</p> <p>From my vent-or-go-insane file:</p> <p>• Double clicking on a group of selected files opens just one.<br /> • Mouse pointer is not hidden despite setting hiding when typing to ON.<br /> • Feedback is poorly given. Often, it appears a click is not registered and the user is inclined to click again which gives multiple instances that are not desired.<br /> • Close window/app with such a convenient key combo alt-f4. Often end up hitting wrong key while contorting to target them. Dreck!<br /> • The whole app and app window concept is a confusing mess. Some things are app focused and others are task based (hence the name). For example (with office 2003 which my company has), if you have two MS Word docs opened and click the big red X to close, only one doc closes. If you do the EXACT same thing with Excel, the whole app closes.<br /> • Insertion point is often on top of a character edge making it difficult to determine if it is left or right of the char itself (like lowercase L or i)<br /> • Control panels / properties dialogs do not display in task bar thus are hard to find if you background them.<br /> • Show desktop button/menu item/minimize all is a hack. It doesn’t always work and apps pop back into view as they see fit.<br /> • Dialogs pertaining to one document block access to other documents in a given application. (No sheets like OS X)<br /> • Tab order is horrid. Either apps don’t do it right or there’s so much dreck on the screen to tab to (as EVERYTHING is tab-able), it makes the tab key useless. Yet another trip to the mouse.<br /> • Arrow key navigation is not consistent when a block of text is selected.</p> <p>Best of luck. I think you’re going to need it if you’re the power user I think you are. If you just live in Photoshop, you might not care. </p> <div class="posted">#17 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_two"> <p><strong>Pecos Bill</strong> said:</p> <p>@Switcher Dan & Johnny Deax:</p> <p>Hardware problems happen to all manufacturers. Apple USED to have better quality hardware when they made them. Now that “China” does it, they’re the same. It seems Apple is having a lot of problems with the MacBook Pros lately, too.</p> <p>The thing that pisses me off about Apple is how they are so tight lipped about problems. I don’t see that changing. </p> <div class="posted">#18 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_one"> <p><strong>Reproman</strong> said:</p> <p>Good Luck. Lets see how the PC works 1 year from today after you caught a couple of viri and the pc runs as fast as a slug on a frozen flag pole. </p> <div class="posted">#19 | Friday, August 29, 2008</div> </div> <div class="frame_comments_two"> <p><strong>Bogz</strong> said:</p> <p>I find it interesting that the experiences of users can vary so much. I recently set up over two hundred Macs (MacBooks and iMacs) at the school I work for and every single one has, so far, run like a champ. I figured we would get at least one DOA. I wonder if there might be quality control issues at some factories and not others. Leopard is a bit quirky sometimes but no more than a minor annoyance now and then. As for me, why switch when you can just add? I have Vista Business on my MacBook Pro’s Boot Camp partition and it runs great whenever I need to run Windows. 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