Mac: I'm Going To The Dark Side

I've decided that my next laptop is going to be a MacBook Pro. Now, if you'd told me 10 years ago that I'd be making this move AND be excited about it, I'd have laughed at you.

But lots has changed in a decade. Mac moved to Intel processors and released what everyone else says is an amazing OS in Leopard. And well, they just look REALLY cool. Also, Windows has started to really suck. I've got to repave my laptop. Again. It takes a million years to boot. It takes even longer to shut down. Applications take forever to load.

I'm at the point where I'm willing to try something else, even if that "something else" means that I spend twice as much money for hardware and have to accommodate a paradigm shift in the fundamental platform on which I operate.

So...I'm not going to start YAPCGGM (that's "Yet Another PC Guy Goes Mac") blog. Or maybe I will. We'll see. My purchase is still a few months out and, well, the last time I paid over $3,000 for a laptop was 10 years ago and the idea is taking some getting used to.