I am pretty new to Macintosh, so I’ll describe how I came to using it. Half a year ago I used Micrisoft Windows. Just because my computer came with it. I wasn’t so clever to question the most important part of the machine, the operating system (yes, hardware is also important…). But anyway, I didn’t use it a lot. Office, internet, a few games. My first contact with a Mac was some years ago in school. This was my first contact with computers at all. Once or twice in one year we went to the computerroom which was always kind of magical. But not magical enought to catch my attention. So I didn’t really remember it when I bought my first computer. Years later I began wondering if a computer could be more useful than mine in my usage scenario. After a long investigation I choose a Tablet PC. It was nice to write right on the screen and don’t have to care about all the single papers. At this point I began to look for another operating system. The reason for this was that my particular Windows XP ran very slow. I guess it had something to do with the driver configuration, but I don’t really know. First I tried Ubuntu, a Linux distribution. The hardware side of the tablet stuff worked, but I couldn’t find a software for taking my notes in a comfortable way. I also got a bit annoyed because I had to configure a lot. I kept telling myself that this was a good thing because it meant that I was able to configure a lot. But this didn’t really help when I had to be productive. Partially I switched back to Windows and got annoyed again by the slowness of my particular system. The other thing in my mind became more and more realistic. Macintosh. I waited for a few months, read a lot, went to a Mac store, tried to get into it. Which was impossible without actually owning a Mac. I didn’t plan to, but when a friend wanted to sell his Mac mini, I took the chance. It was the best tech related decision I made since I bought a PSION PDA. I’m not sure if it offered more possibilites than my previous computers. But I began to use them. Maybe just because it felt more home than everything before. I missed the tablet stuff, but it didn’t keep me. It didn’t take long to convince me of the fact that this will be the system I want to use. Looking forward to my Life Sciences study I needed something mobile, so I chose a MacBook Pro. That’s what I’m using now and hopefully will be using for a while.

This was a short description of my switch to a Mac. I hope you are not asleep by now. Well, I guess I would be glad to serve you in whatever way.