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