Yup you got it...

I made the switch from Windows to Mac.

I got my Macbook Pro 15" last week, on November 1, 2007. I love it.

Reasons why I did the switch:

• Vista is slow to boot and shutdown and really wasn't worth the wait.
• my Sony Vaio SZ that came with XP, but included the free upgrade to Vista, was nice but a bit too small for a form factor.
• the Macbook Pro is definitely better looking, has a larger screen, and also can dual boot with Windows if ever I wanted to use it again.
• the native UNIX support of Mac OS X is very slick for techie heads like me. No need to install and configure an un-installable Cygwin environment.
• Got an iPhone, had to get a Mac. That was probably Apple's strategy the whole time, and well, I guess I was not above taking the bait. Really, the iPhone is extremely well executed. Knowing that, and also that Macs now use the same CPU chip set (and discrete video cards) and provide the same speed if not better than Windows based systems for a price in a laptop that's comparable, I didn't have much reason to remain on Windows.

So far, life in Mac land is very nice. I'm using iTunes to rip a lot more of my music into mp3's and am excited to do so. iTunes makes it easy to organize the music and the ID3 tags. Sharing my iTunes library with other users is also very cool.

I'll try to post more blog entries on life with Mac as I go. Know too, that I switched only my laptop. My desktop remains Windows XP for the sound hardware and music stuff I do with it. Also, playing a game that is not yet ported to Mac OS is another reason to keep the PC around. My PC also has a TON of storage; so it's quite fine living its life as a giant storage automaton.