Thanks to the clowns who broke into our house a few weeks back and stole our HP laptop, we're now the proud owners of a new MacBook Pro! A few years back when I was a programmer I wouldn't have contemplated using a Mac for fear of loss in efficiency and productivity. I was not alone in this thinking, there was only one Mac in the office used mainly for testing our websites actually worked on one - not that we really cared too much if they did or not back then! Fast forward to present times, I work at Yahoo! with many talented developers and engineers walking around with their MacBook's tucked under their arms. Gone are the days of only designers, gadget geeks and rich folks using Mac's, but why is that all of a sudden? It was well known back in the mid-late 90's that only around 10% of computers we're Apple manufactured and most of those we're used by design folks.
Personally, I switched for a few reasons but mainly because of build quality, software & hardware from the same manufacturer (always been the case I know but...) and my increased interest in photography. As I'm no longer programming that's not really a factor but with even developers now turning to Mac for their front-end experience if I did decide to chip the rust off the coding side of my brain again I'm confident I'd be in good hands.
I'm still learning the ropes (thanks Seb for the Mac Command = PC Ctrl tip last week) and must get a mouse to bring back the right-click but so far I'm impressed. Looking forward to when I get time for a decent session with the camera, that's when it's value will truly manifest I think!
Concluding point, stuff just seems to work on a Mac (and how many years have I ignored pesky people saying that to me).
Cheers
Tim
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Oh and the battery on a Mac lasts so much longer than PC, what's that all about...
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