I'm no longer going to be a PC. I'm becoming a Mac! (Once you go Mac, you never go back, so I've heard...:) )
This week I took the plunge and ordered myself a Macbook Pro from the Apple website and I'm now waiting for it to arrive. I thought I was waiting patiently. Turns out I'm not very patient at all! Between obsessively checking my tracking number through UPS (and you can only get the good tracking if you sign up for their site. Seriously, do I need to sign up for anything else?!?! I can barely remember the things that I use frequently!) and making my poor husband check the mail and wait by the phone in case they call, I managed to figure out that I'm absolutely desperate for the change.You may say, 'Oh, but Windows is so much better, they got rid of that Vista crap and it's amazing!'. All I can see now when I look at PC is how much they want to be like Mac. Why settle for an imitation when I can get the real thing?!
I'm not going to lie, this decision has also been made out of peer pressure, with several of my friends and coworkers already on the Mac wagon. Flaunting the amazing graphics, ease of use and lack of viruses in my poor, PC using face.
However, the last nail in the PC coffin was the virus that inflicted itself upon my computer (to be fair, it's probably been lurking amongst all of the trojans that are always on here). This virus also turned up on a couple of computers at my office. It cost me $100 to have it scrubbed and then after I installed my new virus program, the virus program ended up getting infected, so I had to remove it. I still can't click on links from Google without getting routed to spam sites and I continually get pop up windows telling me how I can make my fortune by doing nothing at home.
So yes, I am saying sayonara to Bill Gates and bonjourno to Steve Jobs. Let me hope that I don't eat my words, but if I do, at least they will taste like Apple.
