{"id":3912,"date":"2010-02-01T08:39:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=3912"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:38:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:38:44","slug":"looking-back-on-a-transition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/3912-looking-back-on-a-transition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the Light… the Mac is Good."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I started here at OWC a little over a year ago. I’m a Senior Software architect that has worked primarily in Windows and Linux and have a brother who is a designer that works primarily in Macs.<\/p>\n

Although I’ve done extensive studio work (I’m also a musician) where the engineers all have Mac computers running Logic Pro or Pro Tools<\/a>, I’ve always viewed Macs as a ridiculous hipster<\/a> toy rather than an actual computer. I held strongly to the view that unless it’s a huge oversized box<\/a>, it’s not strong enough for my needs. I have a dell XPS laptop at home that’s an inch & a half thick and thought that was the best you could get.<\/p>\n

On my first day here, I was handed a 17″ MacBook Pro with a 2.6Ghz processor and 4GB of memory, and took on the task of learning to work with this hipster toy. I installed all of the software I needed (Surprisingly, everything I needed was readily available, with the exception of Internet Explorer, which I use solely for browser testing, so I also installed VMWare Fusion<\/a> to allow me to run windows to test web applications for IE compatibility) and got to work.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

For two weeks I worked on this Mac without opening my Dell. Two weeks of learning a completely different workflow.<\/p>\n

And then I went home and opened up my Dell:<\/p>\n

I was amazed.<\/p>\n

I never realized just how kludgy, inefficient and slow Windows is.<\/p>\n

I never realized how wastefully bulky that laptop was.<\/p>\n

My $3000 prized Dell XPS m1710 gaming laptop felt like a cheap, chintzy waste of plastic running inferior software.<\/p>\n

All of my previous conceptions about Apple and Macs had been smashed to pieces.<\/p>\n

Since my Apple Epiphany, I have slowly become a Mac Evangelist to my friends, family and colleagues. I am constantly finding new wonderful things about my Apple products (I own several now) that increase both my productivity and personal satisfaction about the machine I spend most of my day with. I am now running a 15″ MacBook Pro unibody with a 2.96GHz processor and 8GB of memory. This thing screams.<\/p>\n

At this moment, I am running Mail, iTunes, Zend Studio<\/a>, Terminal, Adium<\/a>, Google Chrome<\/a>, FireFox<\/a>, Opera<\/a>, Safari, QuickSilver<\/a>, SMCFanControl<\/a>, Growl<\/a>, Google Quick Search Box<\/a>, Cord<\/a>, ExpanDrive<\/a>, iCal, OmniGraffle Professional<\/a> and Smultron<\/a>. I still have 4GB of memory waiting to be used and my processor isn’t anywhere near breaking a sweat. It’s ridiculous how much power these machines have while remaining physically small and absolutely beautiful.<\/p>\n

I am now, and will forever be a Mac User and I thank OWC for opening my eyes to this wonderful world. I will never be able to express in words<\/a> just how much I enjoy working with my Mac (and iPhone… and soon, my iPad).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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