The lifespan of my desktop PC is in jeopardy. I believe I’m ready to make the switch. I’m becoming a Mac guy.

Before you light up my comment box with questions of why and what happened, I’ll go ahead and answer them before you have the chance. Nothing happened. There is no great event that happened that’s causing me to re-think my 20+ years of being a PC guy. But, there are several smaller events that have been happening. I think the straw that broke the PC’s back came last week when I decided to finally upgrade my Macbook to OS X Leopard. Apple was kind enough to offer the Mac Box Set. It comes with OS X Leopard, iLife and iWork. Separately, these products would have cost around $300, but with the box set it was less than $200. To upgrade my PC to Vista and Office would cost nearly twice that. And I’m not even sure there’s a competing product for iLife. Even if there is, the cost of it would be oppressive. I remember years ago when I used to tease a buddy of mine who was on a Mac because all his products costs twice as much as my PC versions. Those days are long gone, it appears.

Obviously, my switching to the Mac isn’t based on price alone. Really, that’s a very small part of it, but it’s an obvious one that everybody can relate to. My Macbook boots up in less than 1 minute. It shuts down in about 30 seconds. It’s auto-detection for new devices is quick and reliable, every time. I haven’t once had to do a hard-boot my Mac because my machine has locked up. My PC has twice the RAM my Mac has and yet loads programs half as quickly. My Mac is simply superior to my PC in just about every way I can think of.

No, I’m not going to be throwing my PC out the window any time soon. My multi-monitor setup at home will need some adaptation for the Mac before I’d consider turning the PC off for good. I may be forced to buy a desktop Mac to replace the PC, but that won’t happen until the PC goes belly-up, which could still be a year or two away. But, I will use my PC for less and less as I go forward. I’m going to spend more time getting familiar with the “under the hood” portions of the Mac that I’m just not used to at this point. I’ve got 20 years experience working on PCs and only about 1 year working on a Mac, and that’s only been part time. But, I’ve decided that I have purchased my last piece of PC software. From now on, anything new that I need will be purchased on the Mac. I figure this will be a good way to force myself to use it more and more.

Wish me luck.

p.s. I do find it just the slightest bit funny that I wrote this post on my PC.