Actually, I've rejoined the Apple Realm.
Way back in 1985 or so, my first personal computer was an Apple IIe. It had a green screen. I went upscale and bought a second floppy disk drive (back when disks really were floppy) so I could run a program and save data all at the same time. I also had some Apple printer t
hat weighed 50 pounds or so.Ever since, about 1988 or so, however, I've been a PC person.
Oh, I liked my Apple fine. But I seemed to live in the World of PC.
But I'll tell you what put me back in the Apple Realm. First, Apple users. They love their machines. They brag about their machines. Their machines are akin to the angels.
The other thing? Windows Vista.
What a piece of utter crap. It's a memory hog compared to Windows XP, lets me do fewer things to fix problems, and constantly crashes.
So, I went to my favorite store on the face of the planet--Best Buy--talked to a nice gal in a blue shirt, and brought home the basic iMac.
First, I love the 20 inch screen. Marvelously easy to read and great graphics.
Second, I love how fast it runs. It is much faster than any PC I've ever used.
Third, it never crashes.
The only drawback that I've found is that there aren't as many print drivers out there as I thought. My iMac won't talk to my fancy new HP Laserjet color printer or my Samsung black and white printer. So I'm using some cheaper HP printers that it will work with.
But as I learned from my iPod and iTunes, Apple stuff is just engineered to be more intuitive.
So, just call me iTodd of the Apple Realm.
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