So all of you self-professed "Mac snobs" who didn't even freaking use one until iPods came around, I laugh at you.

That's okay. I'll live.

Obviously, if you never laughed at someone for buying a Mac, then my rant doesn't apply to you.

The worst person was actually one of my favorite people--my uncle David. When I got the PowrMac I asked him to come down to SF and help me with it because "it was my first computer" and he was a coder so I knew he'd know his way around it. He told me that I "still didn't have a computer" and pretty much told me that I'd seriously wasted my money (to be fair, it was extremely expensive compared to the pcs I could've bought for what I needed).

So now, he owns nothing but Macs and extols the virtues and puts down pcs every chance he gets. Windows 7 might surprise him a little.

I give him shit for giving me shit back them, but it's mostly in jest. Mostly.

ETA: I would love to own nothing but Macs! And I am happy that Apple has done so well. I didn't mean that to get lost in the shuffle. I am just envious of those of you who can use them for work and play, because I couldn't go back and forth easily between Mac and home and pc at work.

I use to use Macs exclusively. Then I started working in a non-publishing environment, on a PC. And then I inherited a PC laptop that was 9 years newer than my home Mac. Eventually I'll have to get my music off my Mac iTunes (so I'm glad I read through the how-to upthread), but for general browsing and typing (90% of what I do at home) the PC's actually working out pretty well for me. While similarly equipped PC and Mac laptops may have similar price points, it's hard to beat free.

I still love my iPhone, though.

Heck, I do it on the same machine. Almost all of my Macs are now dual boot, and I'm going to start transitioning them to Windows 7 soon.

I suppose I'm clearly a Johnny-come-lately because I think of Macs as laptops. So while I use OS X a lot, I still do things that require larger screens or precision cursor control on the PC, because it's a desktop box.

I have legacy application considerations--I own Office and Photoshop and Paintshop for Windows and I can't see myself buying equivalents for OS X (I've tried the freeware, and it ain't cutting it), so I'm not going to be an OS X only house any time soon. But I should probably make a plan to get onto Windows 7. I am not happy with Vista still.

ND, but you're a superstar! I am a mere mortal.

The only thing I haven't managed to figure out on this new machine, despite its huge screen, is that this little posting box is the same size as it is on my iPhone! I made the rest of the page font big, and fooled with other appearance properties, but this sucks.

ita, I think you will really like Win 7.

I used Windows 7 for an evening when setting up my sisters new laptop (64 bit for $800 dollars--I was startled when it turned out I'd downloaded the wrong iTunes), and it was much easier to do than her Vista laptop, especially the networking. I still have networking craziness with my desktop, and it's not like my home network is a moving target it. I just resent it now. I miss what came before.

Heh. I'm so slow that it's only YESTERDAY (after I"ve had the thing since August) that I finally managed ot figure out how to click on things while browsing the web on my iPhone so that I can open them in a new page, rather than always having to go there, and then hit "back" a lot. DUH. I was like "there's GOTTA be a way..."

I've liked Win 7, it has a lot of nice touches. It's done some stuff like automatically finding and installing the driver for my printer when I plugged in it. Hopefully, Microsoft can get more of that automatic configuration stuff going in Win 8. I had a few minor compatibility problems with the pre-release version, but not with the release version even though I went from 32-bit XP to 64-bit 7.

I was like "there's GOTTA be a way..."

That's often a sign that yes, there is a way....