Thomas Hawk on Macintosh OS-X and Windows Vista
Thomas Hawk comments on Chris Pirillo’s decision to abandon Vista.
Be sure to read the comments on the Pirillo artcle. He’s clearly not out in left field on this issue.
Back to what Thomas Hawk has to say. If you don’t recognize the name Chris Pirillo, this may help:
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Chris points to the reasons why he’s disappointed in Vista (his scanner doesn’t work, Windows Movie Maker crashes, his fax software doesn’t work, his Lifecam won’t work — check this out Chris, the Mac has a super cool cam already built in — I could go on, but just read his article to get the whole thing).
But you see here’s the thing. This is Chris Pirillo. Chris Pirillo the Windows heavy weight. Chris Pirillo who happens to be kind of sort of pretty handy with a computer. If Chris Pirillo is having trouble, just imagine the trouble that the rest of middle America is having.
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I was as much of a Windows diehard as Chris Pirillo was before switching to my MacBook Pro. I really was impressed by what I saw of some early Vista demos. I used to deride the Appleheaded fan boys who would hype the bejezus out of Apple. And for years (16 of them to be exact) I just stuck by Windows again, and again and again and again.
I stuck with Windows for one reason. I was stubbornheaded. It didn’t matter how much things fell apart and didn’t work, like most people I just had a natural resistance to change. I didn’t want to start over again. I was afraid of trying something new. I was busy, always super busy, and used the learning curve as an excuse. And then because I wasn’t really sure (the Mac was the unknown) was I just going to waste more money on something else. I rationalized that all computers had the same problems. That Macs were no better than PCs, etc. etc. again and again and again.
But Hawk took the MacBook Pro plunge:
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… one day on a total impulse buy I bought one at the Apple store in Palo Alto.
And it has been the most positive thing to happen to my computing since. I live with my computer. It’s a big part of my life. I use it upwards of 20 hours a day. And although there was about a 72 hour learning curve and I had to ask Kristopher some really dumb things like “how do I rename a folder,” after this short learning curve it was over and done and now I’m far, far more efficient with my computing than I’ve ever been.
Programs don’t freeze. Everything with a USB connection I’ve ever stuck into the thing has just worked. It wakes up when it’s supposed to. In three months of heavy, heavy use I’ve probably only had to restart maybe three times. Photoshop goes faster. Bridge goes faster. Everything goes faster. And everything just works. That’s the bottom line, everything just works.