When I was in 4th grade my parents bought me a Commodore 64. I remember dialing into bulletin boards with a 300 Baud modem to chat and exhcange files. When I was in high school I remember getting my first Commodore Amiga. I was able to work on video, play games like Dragonslayer and I had a GUI (graphical user interface). My friends were still typing in a black and white drab DOS environment. If you remember Jurassic Park, that was rendered using Video Toaster on an Amiga.
When I was a freshman in college I picked up the Apple keyboard again after a liitle hiatus. Great interface and intuitive OS. I wrote my first database in FileMaker Pro for the Palm Beach County Library and would go over to provide moral support as Randy would work on the newsletter.
Well, I have finally moved from G3 systems (2 iBooks and 2 iMacs) to a new MacBook Pro. I am so happy with this. I had considered the Dell E6400 but apples to apples the MacBook Pro 13.3" just overshadoowed it. Now, I am typing this on my PC. I am using my MacBook for most of my day to day tasks. Office 2008 Entourage works flawlessly with our Exchange server. I have 'shortcuts' on my Mac desktop to my folders on the network. Printing work great!
Next step, compare VMare and Parallels.
--Sherlock