About two weeks ago, I made the jump and switched from a PC to a Mac.  Now this was not a decision I took lightly.  I had never been exposed to a Mac before and I have years of experience with a PC.  See I’m kind of my families and friends tech help person.  I’d taught myself how to reformat hard drives, install video cards and memory upgrades, hooked up networks…  but had never once sat down before a Mac.  Not until two weeks ago.

My earliest memory of a PC was when I was in high school, it was of my dad’s.  Along with it he had a dot matrix printer and a funky looking dial-up modem thing that looked something like this:

In college I had taken a basic ‘Computer 101′ class and my first job out of college used PC’s but it wasn’t until I was married that I owned my first one.  And get this, the hard drive was a whooping 800 MB.  I thought we’d never run out of room on that thing!  This was 18 years ago.  We’ve since been through at least eight computers; Packard Bells, IBM’s, Gateways and Dells.  Laptops and desktops.  And waaayyyy too many peripherals to mention.

About a month ago I got a wild hair to consider a Mac.  I was sooooo fed up with how my PC’s were operating.  I was having trouble with our families desktop no longer allowing installs to take place.  My laptop was so slow I was barely using it which meant I was missing emails and other important information.  I had considered this once before, briefly, but decided I didn’t have the time to learn something new.  I had so much time invested in PC’s, I felt I was too far down the PC path to make a change.  I was also concerned with the software.  Would files be compatible?  Would I be able to get software that was on my PC for the Mac?  Would I have to pay for it twice?  Questions, questions, questions.  So many unknowns I went with what was safe but this time was different.  I had to make a change.  So I did a little ‘google’ research and then walked into an Apple store and asked them a BUNCH of questions.  I walked out of the store with a 15″ Macbook Pro laptop, 500 GB.  I will never run out of room on this thing!

So, as I proceed down the path of learning the Mac way of life, I’m going to document the journey.  I’ll address some myths and the realities of switching.  The good, bad and the ugly will be shared.  Let’s see if I made a good decision.

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