What caused me to buy a Mac after all

Nathanael Brubaker, at Coleson Foods (where I now work), got a Macbook Pro.  He didn't tell me much about it but I knew that he was able to boot to Windows.  Jeff Lingle, from Sequoia Technology (the company that supports our servers) bought a Macbook Pro and told me a little bit about his.  He also told me about some cool software called Parallels, where you could run Windows applications at the same time that you ran Apple software.

A good friend, Christina Ross (another employee at Coleson Foods), bought a Macbook.  She REALLY liked and kept telling me how much I would love it.  I  also had bought Christina a copy of Parallels for Christmas but she ended up not needing it.  It got me thinking that I would hold onto the copy IF I got a Mac.  She also mentioned that a friend of hers told her to tell me that the Mac operating system was based on Unix.  I already knew that but it made me think about how robust Unix was in multiuser and multitasking abilities.  I think Christina pushed me over the edge in what I had been considering since Nathanael bought his Macbook.

However, I remembered my negative experience several years before so I went to www.apple.com/findouthow/mac and watched every PC to Mac video tutorial, actually every 'beginner' tutorial on the website.  That helped me to learn about the dock, how to size windows, finder, system preferences and other features.

I ended up looking for Macbook Pros on craigslist.com and found someone  down in Pueblo who seemed to have taken good care of his.  We negotiated and I got my Macbook Pro 15" with iWork09 and iLife09.  Since that time, I converted my downloaded copy of Office 2007 over to Office 2008.  I've also installed Parallels and Windows 7 (64 bit version), which I run in Coherence or Crystal mode.  I never had to give up anything that I liked in Windows and I get to use the amazing software on the Mac platform.  It is the best of both worlds.