3 weeks ago I jumped ship from being a long term Windows user to using Mac.  I’d only ever used Macs very briefly, accounting for less than an hour of overall use.

So what was the reason for my switch I hear you asking?

Short answer:

I was fed up of the unreliability of xp and the constant need to format.

Long answer:

1. My Dell Laptop kept crashing and running generally slowly.  As it happens this probably wasn’t entirely xp’s fault as I believe there was a hard drive fault.  However, even before this I had to format every three months or so which really infuriated me.
2. XP was very unexciting and made things which should be fun feel like a chore
3. Viruses and spyware were really irritating - I know you should be careful, not go on those kind of websites etc. but that is sometimes unavoidable!
4. OS X seemed so fresh and fun

(more…)