Ah, 'twas the summer of 2003. I was seriously thinking about getting a new laptop, and I was leaning towards a Windows XP machine. Mac's weren't being sold in my city of 110,000. I'd read about the cool new flat-panel iMac G4 but I didn't know anybody who owned one, much less any other Mac. Then one day -- as luck would have it -- I was talking to a former co-worker whom I hadn't seen in years. He had just bought the new iMac and he invited me to drive up and see it (he lives in Waterloo Ontario, apx 2-hrs away.) So I made the trip and he showed me a few things he was doing with it. Everything about it absolutely blew me away -- the dock, iTunes, the mysterious Internet and my God did Safari ever look great compared to Explorer! But then he showed me iMovie and it was like I was struck by lightning. I'd worked in television and I'd done some industrial and promotional videos years before. So when he showed me how easy it was to import, process, and edit digital video over FireWire I just about fell on the floor. This one computer could replace $10,000 worth of analog video editing gear -- and do a much better job at it! So anyway I left knowing that I had to get a Mac laptop. I looked at the PowerBooks and iBooks but kept putting it off, waiting for the iBook to hit the psychological 1GHz barrier. As soon as it did, in November 2003, I bought one and I've never regretted it for a second. All my small-town Windoze friends said that I was completely nuts for buying Apple. But now, most of them have switched. In fact, I think I'm directly responsible for selling a half-dozen Mac's. I'm now on the verge of buying my second Mac -- the 24" iMac -- and I'm sure I'll be just as happy with it. Everything about Mac's just feels right.
) and then another 20 mins to find out how to open the CD Drive. I knew it was the right thing tho, never have I or will I look back. Takes some gettin used to, but you get the hang of it quickly anyway.
