My good wife’s 5 year old Dell laptop gave up the ghost last month. Well the space bar hasn’t spaced for a while, so we used an external keyboard. The dell was generally showing its age, occasionally not booting properely, and really running slowly. A sort of Alzheimer’s stage of affairs. Then last month the screen died.
By default we had always had windows, without really thinking about why. Time for a change. Well we decided to buy a mac laptop, a macbook, primarily because it looks nicer, but also because people like john and Charlie rave about their macs. I have never met anyone that raves about their Dell. I ordered it on the phone, as we wanted a german keyboard but english software, the phone was answered in two rings, and I was dealt with politely and quickly.
The mac arrived yesterday, as promised. My wife opened the box and called me to say that how cool and pretty it looked. I got home late, and I switched it on. It was delivered charged up, nice touch. And within 3 minutes I was on the web with safari. Everything worked.
My wife’s copy-editing and corporate journo business and blog will be run from the mac. Let’s see how we get on. It may be trendy to move to ubuntu (see cote), but I think we’ll give the mac OS and iWorks a try first. It looks so damn pretty and friendly. Once I have the mail talking to t-online, then I’ll be really impressed. Mac newbie advice of course welcome.
Update. Thanks Charlie Wood for the advice.
update 2. Perhaps we will get the nod now.
Vendorprisey 
You SAP bloggers really are having a Mac Attack. Jeff Nolan’s on it, so apparently are Shai and Leo. I dunno – next we’ll be hearing R/3 runs on the Quad boxes 🙂
I used my ‘switch’ to Mac as a good excuse to kiss goodbye to desktop apps, eat my own lunch and go fully SaaS. No regrets so far.
Yuh! Good man. Tell us how you like iWork. I don’t really do word processing in that form anymore, so I don’t use it much. On the other hand, I use Keynote.
Cote,
My good lady hasn’t let me use the mac since I set it up!
Dennis,
What do you use for basic invoicing etc….?