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Moving from Windows to the Mac, Series Part 4

Having decided to leave the Windows arena, and having further decided that Linux was not where I needed to go, I was left with one alternative: Apple. They, of course, are not exactly without faults, either. Apple is as famous for the elitist attitude of the company and its users as it is for the good qualities that it brings to the table. In terms of the Open Source movement that I support so wholeheartedly, Apple is just about as  proprietary as IBM was in the '70s and as Microsoft is today.

But at least they are the underdog, and at least they have retained the ability to innovate, even though most of their innovations are not in the PC marketplace, but rather in consumer electronics. It certainly is not their hardware, which is now built out of the same parts bins as all other PCs. And, of course, Apple's chutzpah in continuing to run Apple vs. PC ads when every Apple is now a PC proves that they can weave spin with the best of them.

However, simply put, OS X rocks. OS X is better than Vista by a country mile, and better than XP by a significant margin. It is what Linux should be and as yet is not: *nix under the skin, easy enough for the common man, and powerful enough for anybody. I will forgive almost anyone who turns out something this good and then supports it. Of the twenty-odd operating systems that I have used, OS X is the best, hands down.

Tomorrow: Day one with OS X.