Welcome to Ordinary Mac User!
I've been using a Mac for... I think... about three years now. I use a Mac because I got tired of putting up with system crashes, spyware, and viruses on Windows systems, and an especially bad experience with a new Windows laptop. It's not that I didn't know how to keep a Windows system running - I was a Windows and Novell SysAdmin for a Fortune 100 company. But when I started writing professionally, I wanted a computer system that "just worked", and the Mac, once they got OSX shipped and stable (around OSX 10.3 when I bought my first Mac) was just that. Steven Roberts, who was one of the long-time Mac users I asked for advice said it well - "This thing is just an appliance". (That's high praise, when describing a computer.)
I need to make one major point clear - I'm not a rabid Apple / Mac fan. I'm not a cheerleader for Apple or especially "the Apple way of life". I don't live and breathe Apple (but I do confess to watching the Steve Jobs product introductions with a sense of anticipation for "the cool new stuff".) I'm also not a "Microsoft Hater" that uses Apple product as an "anti-Microsoft" statement. That said, I don't think very highly of Microsoft's business practices as company that has a conviction as a Monopolist on their record. I also don't think very highly of Windows systems to date suffering from "accumulated cruft and bloat" from too-numerous-to-count inline updates, vulnerability to viruses and spyware. Windows Vista looks way too complicated (and a bit underwhelming for lack of features that have been promised), but it's at least a more secure Windows based on current technology, not the creaky technology that Windows XP was based on. In a few years, as new generations of cheap computers catch up with Vista's requirements (as they always do), Vista looks pretty promising.
I use, and enjoy using a computer to get my work (writing) done, and my tool / computer of choice, all things considered, at the moment, is a Mac.
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