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Well, after being a MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 98, and Windows XP guy all my life, sometime later this week, a new era in my geek life is going to begin.  I have a brand new iMac on its way from Apple sometime later this week.  Going to be a crazy few weeks as I begin the transition to a brand new OS, new ways of working with software, and FINALLY not having to worry about antivirus, etc for the first time in a long while.

I made the switch because we’re not going to be buying another new computer for a while (our current Dell desktop is just over 7 years old) and I was growing more and more frustrated with the issues of crashes, etc that go along with running a Windows system.  As I have also been working more and more with multimedia, especially video editing, I know that Macs are far more proficient, effective, and efficient at doing anything with multimedia.

The final straw for me began with the introduction in Mac OS of Boot Camp to allow users to install Windows OSes on a separate partition on the hard drive, thereby allowing XP or (eww) Vista to run as well.  There are still several programs that I will continue to use under Windows (whether through bootcamp or through fusion), but the switch has begun.