Hello mac world!

I keep waiting until the proper time to start my switching to mac blog, but I realize, the proper time is now while I'm learning! I wanted to predigest the food like a mama bird and spit it out once it's nice and masticated, but I might as well write while I'm still researching and struggling a bit.

I'm a singer, and went on tour for 6+ months with about 12 other musicians, 10 of which had macs, so I thought, maybe it's time to just consider getting a mac. Having had a past life as a graphic designer, I'd owned an old G3 before, strictly to use to check website rendering of my sites in mac browsers, but I wasn't particularly impressed with macs then. And I'd also worked at the Discovery channel using a mac, and although I was quite competent, still not that impressed.

So finally, practicality and peer pressure made me pick up a shiny, new Aluminum Intel imac. And although I still have gripes and am not a total switcher (didn't throw out my pcs or laptops), I've got to notice that I spend more and more time on this machine. And it didn't solve all my life's problems are was advertised by all my mac friends.

The deal is this: PCs are cool. Macs are cool. The existence of both, hopefully, will force each other to keep being cooler, in an effort to bash each other's heads in.

This blog is dedicated to all of the problems I've had as a power user of PCs, while switching to mac. As much as mac is the underdog and the trailblazer, I see so many things that could be better were it not for the stubbornness of not wanting to admit that sometimes PCs get it right. Bill Gates has no problem seeing something cool on the mac and imitating it. It's time mac does the same and takes the best of both worlds and propels it into new heights ala Apple.

So in breaking the tradition of mac users everywhere, I am actually going to COMPLAIN about mac! The heresy. But I'm going to do it, because if you never ask for more, you won't get more. And in the words of the Abraham-Hicks manifestation camp, I'm not complaining to complain, every time I blog about what baffles me in mac land, I am launching a little rocket of desire for what I DO want. And so it is and so it shall be. Join me on this ride into the cult known as Apple.