I don't really do much gaming on computers. That's what my 360 is for.
My switch story started with the 20GB 4th generation iPod. Ahh yes. I still remember dropping nearly $500 on that thing, racing home as fast as (legally) possible, and opening it up. The excitement (and smell) was orgasmic.
That was 2004. I never even thought of using a Mac before that, and I was even a person to ask why one would use a Mac, since Windows was the most popular platform. I met my (now ex) girlfriend that year, in my first year of university. She had a G4 iBook. I really liked the look of it, but could never understand why one would use a Mac. But, once I saw it had terminal, and was running Unix, I became pretty inquisitive.
I really liked the look of it, and the OS was beautiful as well. I liked the fact that there are no buttons on the outside of it, and the overall fit and finish was great, despite her abuse.
Fast forward to September 2005. I had a job at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, at their computer store. I was still not really into the idea of a Mac, especially with the price difference. However, after playing around on a G5 PowerMac, I was hooked.
I started looking for a 17" PowerBook, which was what the head of administrative computing was using. He let me play with it, and I loved it. They let me take home a 15" PowerBook to play with over the weekend. Again, I was hooked.
One day, a professor ordered a 17" PowerBook with an upgrade to 120GB hard drive and 1GB of RAM in one chip. He put down a $500 deposit on it. Since it was a custom order, he couldn't cancel it. He canceled it, and lost his deposit. After bargaining with the sales manager at the store, I bought my new PowerBook to the library to open it up for the first time.
I will never forget how beautiful it was. A girl watched the birth of what is now known as Thor, and probably thought I was insane. I remember pressing my nose deep in the rear vents and inhaling deeply. I remember my excitement on its first boot, and my sheer joy when the lights went down in one of my criminal psychology classes, when the screen dimmed and the keyboard lit up.
Now, I have an iMac, as well as a few other older Macs. I will never go back to Windows, except when I eventually get a new MacBook Pro, and the only reason I'll use Windows then is to use Flight Simulator.
I have never looked back, except for Flight Simulator. And I owe it all to the iPod and the cute girl I met in first year university.
