Two Years Since The Switch

Mike Wendlund, over at Tech:Knowledge writes of his experiences after two years as a user of Apple products… he “switched”!

I just celebrated my two year anniversary of being – near as I can – an all-Mac operation in my personal computing.

Ten overwhelmingly positive experiences have kept me strongly in the fold:

No spam – There is no better spam filter than Spam Sieve. It’s a Mac-only product and it catches 98 percent of my junk mail.

No worms or viruses – None. Zip. Zero. Not a single one in two-plus years now.

No adware/spyware – Same thing. These are non-issues on my Macs.

No crashes – It just doesn’t happen with OS X. I had one crash in December 2002, but I was running OS 9 at the time and it was a very old program (from 1994-ish) and I was curious to see if it worked. It didn’t.

I switched in December 2002 when I purchased the Apple Dual G4 Desktop and expanded that system in April 2003 with a Powerbook G4 Laptop. Now it’s nearly two years later and I’m still using both machines without any upgrades (other than new software).

My employer is a WinTel / Microsoft shop so I picked up a Motion Computing 1400D tablet earlier this year – and used in conjunction, these two machines make my life alot easier. But I prefer an Apple solution — why? Just look at the three items I highlighted from Wendlund’s blow… No spam, no worms, no viruses, no adware, no spyware, and no crashes.

You can’t beat that.

Besides, Macs are SEXY!

One response

  1. “I have no worms or viruses because I run AVG from Grisoft on my PC. (I run Norton on my Mac, too.) I have no adware or spyware on my PC, because I have Spybot S&D”

    Yes, which defeats any raw gigahertz-increase our Winbox might have, as you have to continually have the antivirus and anti-spyware/adware software running in the background, not to mention the added possibility of software conflicts with those apps.

    I can use 100% of my Mac’s processor to do my work.