Wednesday, September 19, 2007

The Revenge of the Macs

Folks around Simpson who know me also know that I'm an obsessive Macintosh guy — have been for 20 years and probably will be buried with my fingers on my MacBook Pro keyboard. (And, by the way, could the folks at Blogger please do something to better integrate with the Safari browser? I have to cut over to Firefox to post to this blog -- major pain.)

We are a smug crew, we Mac users. Could it be that, finally, the rest of the world is coming to see the wisdom of the Mac platform? With a new Leopard operating system about to hit market and the thud of the Vista system from Windows, the Wall Street Journal reports that former Windows devotees are now realizing that Mac is the place to be for innovation.

The Journal's not alone. Sure, the Mac’s a more expensive machine, but pop music biz and tech blogger Bob Lefsetz argues that they’re worth the price in the headaches they save alone. "You can buy a Vista machine, laden with craplets, spend hours loading up the anti-virus and spyware detection software," Lefsetz notes, "or you can go Mac, and be up and running almost instantly. And, if you've got a problem, you can go to the store where you bought it and get help free."

Don't say I didn't tell you so.

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