I switched over 5 years ago. No Regrets. In fact, I run my entire business off of Macs. No need for an IT department and everything works. If you have more specific questions, let me know. I once worked for the company.

Paul - I have not heard too many stories like that about Apple products. My only experience with their tech support has been with my iPod - I sent it in, 3 days later they mailed me a new iPod, 5 days later it was in my hands.

I switched about 9 months ago and I dont know why I didnt do it sooner. The OS and the hardware is first class.

Yes, Paul, Macs have hardware failure just like anything else. The guts of the computer is nothing special. If something does go wrong, however, AppleCare’s service pretty much blows away most standard PC companies, except perhaps for IBM.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog has posted a short story on the top five mistakes made by new mac users. It includes closing an application window, thinking it has quit, downloading software and then running it from the disk image (runs slowly, can’t eject disk image), Windows .EXE files littered around the desktop after they’ve tried to download software and install it.

Read the rest of the story on TUAW

1. Use finder column view from the start.
2. Use keyboard commands for “everything”
3 Use the 2 button mouse for contextual menus. Discard the one button mouse.
4. Do everything from the finder.
5. Impress your windows friends by launching imovie, itunes, iphoto, garage band play a cd, play a video, compose all at the same time without crashes and…. hit the f 9 key to show all of them in their own window each playing their own app.

If you’re going to buy a PC I would get a Thinkpad from Lenovo. If you’re going to get a Mac, I would recommend getting an iBook. But get the intel based ones once they come out.

While Mac Book Pro’s and Powerbooks may look tempting, I’d have to say that the iBook is by far the more durable notebook.

Personally? I’m going to get a Thinkpad when I go to college.