After about a month being on vacation and traveling and using my new MacBook Air laptop, almost 100% of that time, I am now back on a Windows Vista PC desktop. I thought I’d note a few quick thoughts.
Everything I’ve tried to do on the PC is slower than it is on a Mac.
- Startups, Restarts and Resuming from sleep or hibernation are slower.
- Applications startups are slower.
- Applications that are already running are slower.
- Internet browsing is slower.
- Using the mouse (compared to the larger touch pad on the Air) for a good batch of things is slower. That’s not for everything, and I think I’ll still get a nice Bluetooth mouse for the laptop.
Vista is not as cool – nor as popular! 
OK, this is not scientific, but…
- I was at a Caribou coffee shop in Hopkins, MN almost every day while I was in town. The people that brought in their PC laptops, all had (clunky) power cables, all had a mouse, all had (clunky) laptop bags, and often would be talking on their phones too.
- Most of the time there were more Mac’s than PC’s. (I counted. True story!)
- Even grandma’s saw the new MacBook Air and made comments – not to me, to their husbands or their grandkids! (This happened at least 3 times.)
It appears to me that Apple is doing a better job finding ways to assimilate their (popular) products into our lives. I’m buying in. I’m becoming a Mac Fan Boy.
(OK, all you PC nutz… let me have it! I’ll take on any PC drag race – especially if it starts with coming out of sleep, where it consistently takes less than 3 seconds on the Mac, and usually less than 1 second!)
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