Mike Wendland (of Detroit Free Press fame) has listed his “Top Ten Reasons I’m Glad I’m a Mac Switcher” on his MacMike News site:
Wendland explains, “It’s been nearly four years now since I made the switch from PCs and Windows to Apples and Macs.”
Top Ten Reasons I’m Glad I’m a Mac Switcher:
1 – 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.
2 – No worms or viruses – None. Zip. Zero. Not a single one in four years now.
3 – No adware/spyware – Same thing. These are non-issues on my Macs.
4 – 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.
5 – Total integration – Apple’s iSync application keeps my calendar, address book, Web bookmarks and to-do list automatically and flawlessly synchronized on my desktop and laptops. And it backs it all up on my .Mac account, meaning I can access it from any computer with a Net connection.
6 – iTunes and the iPod – Need I say more? Granted, these also work with Windows. But on Macs, they work the best.
7 – Total freedom – Airport Express lets me set up a wi-fi network anywhere I want in seconds and it extends my wireless network at home as I need it.
8 – Mac software – I mentioned SpamSieve and iTunes. But then there’s other special Mac apps like the RSS-reader NetNewsWire, GarageBand, Safari and Final Cut Pro. I can not imagine computing without these apps.
9 – Compatibility – I realize this is a PC world. So I use Microsoft’s Office for the Mac. Truthfully, it’s been my experience that it works better than Office for Windows.
10 – Community – When I was all PC, I used to laugh at the Mac zealots. Now that I am one, I understand why they love their computers. I never heard a Windows user say that.
“For me, Macs have made the last four years an adventure just waiting to be clicked,” Wendland explains.
More at MacMike News here.
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Detroit Free Press’ Wendland: Apple MacBook Pro ‘the finest portable computer I have ever owned’ – March 14, 2006
ditto, ive been a for 4 years now woo hoo! why didnt i find the mac straight after the amiga, why did i have to take the pc route?
Makes me all . . . “tingly” inside.
Why the hell won’t an article like THIS one get picked up and spread nigh and yonder in the mainstream shitty press? Imagine how much head-scratching and “Wow, I didn’t know that!”-type reactions this’d cause if it were reprinted in USAToday?
F-ckin’ Mac-hating imbeciles everywhere need their eyes opened.
how touching
Triffid- From your lips to PC users’ ears.
Have you ever seen a child, on his way to school, have a car drive past and splash him, and then he just stands there and thinks if he should just go to school or go home and change and be late . . . And then I drove past and splashed him again!
I don’t believe a thing you man-goo-loving Mac cultist fags say.
My Windows PC does everything your Mac can do. It’s just a tool.
You gay homos love man pudding so much that you make up fake lists proclaiming your love for your toy computers.
Get a real PC, you tree hugging sausage swallowers!
I say BULLSHIT to reasons 1-10 above because I’m not a Mac-loving fanatical fag loaded to the gills with baby batter.
You Mac gays keep on lying and we’ll keep using our real PCs and ignoring you fags.
ron’s here — everybody check your shorts!
Ron are you gay too? Mmm.. You sound CUTE big boy!
Ron
uh, lol…. issues?
I think Ron is the deffinition of FLAMER…. in more ways that one
ron. You don’t know the history of pretending to be straight while hating something to throw off your scent. I do.
should it be? maybe not. but it is. some things can’t change.
Anybody who’s not a Mac ‘tard gay can avoid a lot of spam with a Windows PC. No worms or viruses, yeah right, I believe that – I just read about one last month, you lying throat sausage lovers.
I have a real PC and I know how to use it to stop most adware/spyware. I don’t need any homo Mac for that.
No crashes, yeah right.
The rest of it is all the same typical BULLSHIT from gay homo Mac fags. I can’t be bothered to explain how a PC can do it all, too.
STOP guzzling man pudding and packing fudge and get a real Windows PC, you gay Mac fags.
I’ll never switch, even if I’m the last one on Earth, ’cause I’m not a gay fag who loves toys.
try ALMOST no crashes. there’s a difference, you ignoramus ken & barbie mac-headed BREEDERS!
I don’t believe a thing you man-goo-loving Mac cultist fags say.
My Windows PC does everything your Mac can do. It’s just a tool.
You gay homos love man pudding so much that you make up fake lists proclaiming your love for your toy computers.
Get a real PC, you tree hugging sausage swallowers!
I say BULLSHIT to reasons 1-10 above because I’m not a Mac-loving fanatical fag loaded to the gills with baby batter.
You Mac gays keep on lying and we’ll keep using our real PCs and ignoring you fags.
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Thank you Ron for reminding me of the #1 reason I am a Mac lover.
If I were just a tenth as miserable a man as you appear to be through your post I’d have to kill myself. God Bless.
xoxo
I hope to hell Ron isn’t gay, most the people I know are pretty nice, whether they use windows-PCs or Macs. Ron just isn’t a nice person.
Hey, “Ron,” how old are you, anyway? Your diction and tone suggest an 11-year-old who can afford only a $200 assemble-it-yourself PC your gay uncle helped you put together.
Questions: Did it HURT when you bent over to pick up the phillips head he dropped on the floor intentionally?
(Oh, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t say “head” around you, huh?)
Oh, that’s FUNNY, DDRR! But the truth always hurts, doesn’t it, Ron? Along with a whole bunch of other things you’ve had shoved up your arse over the years, I’d bet.
I refuse to believe that top ten list above. Lying Mac fags are a dime a dozen.
I would never even touch a Mac – too gay -I never have touched a Mac and I never will!
Someday, when your fruity little tiny California company Apple is out of business, buried by Dell and HP and hundreds of others who make REAL PCs, maybe you homos will stop bending over for man rod and stand up and walk into the REAL PC world like a heterosexual man.
Until then, you really should install Windows on your Macs and get real familiar with it, you baby batter swallowing, nut sack licking, ramrod loving, lying gay homo fags!
I’m outta here. This place has way too many lies and way too many QUEERS for me!
I’m not clear about Ron’s like or dislike of Macs. Ron, don’t hold back, tell us what you really think. LOL
Oh yeah, that one worm…hey, did you hear about those 114,000 of them for your POS PC. Just thought i would keep you heads up on the news!
how can it be a toy and have no games?
how can it not be a toy and have 1000’s of games?
its a guy´s personal blog – All Mac news, all the time –
no credibility.
hell, you can find a million of those, MDN.
Speaking as a “Mac Fag” Seancody.com his hot! LOL