I made the switch. A few weeks ago my home computer crashed. My son-in-law convinced me to look at an iMac. I had been a PC guy for years, and had never given any serious consideration to switching. It didn’t take long to convince me, once I had the opportunity to play around with it at the computer store. Immediately I could tell the difference in the quality of the Apple products verses any PC the store had in stock. I was also impressed with how fast the Mac operating system loaded and the ease of use. All of the iLife software which came preloaded on the iMac worked together seamlessly.

Once I made the purchase and got the iMac home, I was up and running in a matter of minutes. Another neat feature of the iMac is that there is no cpu tower. Everything, including the hard drive, is built right into the display. Just plug it in, and turn it on. The display is a sharp, crisp 24 inch LCD monitor. The keyboard and mouse connects right to the back via a usb connection. There's even a wireless keyboard and mouse option available.

I've been so thrilled with the way the iMac works, that I recently switched my work laptop over as well. I'm now using a Macbook for the office. I purchased Office for Mac which is compatible with the Widows version of Office. Sharing files with a Windows based PC is no problem. I'm also using Parallels which allows me to run Windows on my Mac, for those Windows based programs I need to run. In particular, the Bible Study software I use is a Windows only system, Bible Works, but it works just fine using Parallels.

There’s one other thing I don’t miss about the PC, virus protection. The Mac, which is virtually immune from viruses, doesn’t need it.

Blessings,
Jimmy