2 macs and vista.

It’s been a while since my last post. I have been out thinking. And more thinking.

Although, whenever I got some time between thinking about this and thinking about that – I was playing around with the 24″ iMac I bought a few months ago.

I have been a mac convert since late 2003. My first apple product was a 12″ Powerbook G4 with OS X 10.3 – Panther. I was an instant fan. Then I got a 20Gb iPod as a surprise birthday gift from my friends at school and the seamless integration with the mac was a thing you could not miss after being a windows/microsoft user for so many years.

Yup, no installing drivers, no “new hardware found” dialog, no “your new hardware could not be installed properly” dialog either.

Seamless.

I used the PB for most of my college days – emails, music, research papers, homework, mathematica, monte-carlo in excel – hell everything. Of course there times when I would face the inevitable – moving stuff I created on my mac to a windows-based machine and making sure it looks like I had intended. But eventually, I would find a way to make sure compatibility was not an issue.

3 years later – there are no more compatibility issues – hell the mac systems can run vista/xp natively now. And moving files from one system to the other could not be easier. But why would you want to do that? With Tiger (OS X 10.4) Apple made sure you don’t need anything more. Of course for the ‘IT’ guys this is not true. They work with languages and software packages for which, sometimes, there are no mac alternatives (and it is only a matter of time though).

Right now, I can’t wait to get ‘Leopard’ OS X 10.5 and start using cover-flow in finder.

To all the windows users – “Convert now”.