Just posted my story on the Mac site, we'll see if they publish it or not. Yes, I am a Mac addict but believe it or not: There are many good reasons for it.

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I was a PC user for 16 years. Always the geek who would aim at and solve almost any problem that the PC (DOS& Windows) world would throw at him. Change pin settings on the motherboard, remove cards, upgrade processor speeds, you name it. I wasn't shy to mess around with my machine and quite proud of the knowledge I posessed.

I had been wondering for a couple of months if I might not want to buy an Apple Macintosh for its sleek design. With OSX running a variant of Debian I was not only compelled to it because of the ease of use the GUI the Mac was teasing me with but also with the technology under the hood of its operating system.

And then I had my eye-opener. My PC crashed after I installed SP2 of Windows XP. It simply did not let me login anymore after I opened my laptop one morning. And slowly but surely corrupted the data on my hard disk. I lost a lot of data as I hadn't backed up for a months time. The laptop was brand new and I wasn't expecting any problems to arise. Bad thinking, should have known better.

That was really it for me. Didn't want to waste any minute more of my life to deal with such issues. I was fed up with the PC world. I switched. And will never go back.

Within two weeks I had moved all my valuable data from the PC to the Mac, installed Microsoft Office, started to explore iLife and simply admired how simple it was to get something done on the Mac. It was actually sometimes too easy for me to understand. As a PC user I was used to have to plan ahead the next actions and not to do what would come naturally to me. I still discover new cool tricks on my Mac such as dragging and dropping text after highlighting it.

Next on my shopping list is a 21" iMac to still my hunger for more processing power. The iBook is all I ever needed for a mobile computer but sometimes you want to read documents on something larger than a 12". And of course I'll buy myself an iPod Shuffle, mostly because I will be able to use it on the slope and snowboard. I already own an iPod mini.

As said; will never go back. Love and dig my Mac, it made me heaps more efficient and the days are gone where I would sit in front of my computer trying to figure out what it wants from me. I actually get work done. :)

All the Best,
Bjoern Schliebitz
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