[jyl]

Another happy Mac user.

Was a PC user for years, got pretty into it, built my own PCs, etc. So one day about 5 years ago, there I was, running my dual Pentium box, 5 SCSI drives, 2GB memory, five cooling fans, dual-boot, etc. Basically a server. And suddenly I realized - this thing is so noisy it keeps me awake, I'm tired of futzing with it, in fact I'm tired of messing with computers period.

So I bought an Apple laptop, brought it home, and started the setup process. It came to a screen asking if I wanted to go online and register, I laughed because it wasn't plugged into my network and for experience I knew that configuring PCs for WiFi was not a snap of the fingers. Back then, anyway. So I sneered and clicked "yes". The little Apple went out, found my WiFi network, configured itself, and went online. It was like magic, I was blown away. We have never looked back and are all Mac now. Except for the work laptop.

I have had some trouble with Mac hardware - my iBook needed repairing. But beng able to simply stroll into the nearest Apple Store, hand them the machine, and have it serviced and delivered back to my home is so much nicer than waiting on hold to India for 2 hours and then boxing up a PC to mail to some factory repair center.