So here it is, I have been a Mac user now for 5 years - before that computers were a necessary evil. It started when I was told I had to use a mac on my first day of new job in 2004. I was given a pretty substantial budget and told to get online and order something. I panicked, I hadn't used a Mac since the classic, I was in a new country, an entirely new continent, I was starting a job I had no idea how to do, and I did not have the time to learn a totally new OS.
I ended up blindly ordering a Powerbook G4 12" with an external 20" apple monitor, to this day the best computer I have ever owned (including the current 13" MBP) it's still going strong.
I hated it. Everything was different, similar, but different. That was the problem, keyboard shortcuts were all the same but used the command button not control, I couldn't find any of my files and winamp wasn't an option for the music I needed to keep me sane. In a lot of ways it was like the change from England to America, everything is almost the same but just different enough to upset your balance a little and make day-to-day life challenging again.
Six months later I vowed never to go back (to PC's not England).
Fast forward four years.
New job, new office, new Dell...
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