There are several reasons why I have decided to by MAC. The one I have chosen is MAC Book Pro because of its hardware parameters such are 2GB RAM and so on. I am going for 15 inch version because the 17inch is way to expensive for me.
So why MAC?
I will start with the less practical point and that is the fact that it is the most beautiful laptop ever made. The design is just perfect. Anytime I see it in the apple store I feel like I want to start working on it. I am one of the people who feel extremely motivated by working space and tools. So the new MAC apple is going to participate hugely on this. I am sure about that.
Software
The next reason for the swap from Windows to MAC is the software you can get for MAC. Very good example in my case is software called coda. I adore this product. I think it was done for people like me, designers who spend lots of time hand coding. It even looks perfect. I just want one of these. The next software I want to have is messenger called adiumx. This messenger supports all different kind of messengers I have come across in my whole life. Both of this software are MAC only. There are plenty of other examples and if you are web designers I am sure you know about a lots of them.
iPhone
Another very good reason for my switch to MAC is iPhone which I am going to get very soon. I can finaly sync all my contacts, tasks, calendar etc. Which mean having all the data with me all the time. Having Safari browser on it will allow me to be better organized because I will be able to access my emails, my upcoming events, google maps, lastFM radio and so on. Obviously iPhone is cooperating with MAC the best of all the operating systems out there so that is going to be a very good connection on my IT department.
Negative side
There are some negative thinks about moving to MAC. As a web designer I have to test in all available web browsers and most of them run on Windows so that would mean that I will have to buy parallels to run Windows on MAC as well. I am thinking completely get rid of MS Office and switch to Google online docs and spreadsheets. Most of the other software I have been using is going to be OK with MAC. The only chalange I am going to have is installing Appache, PHP and MYSQL on my MAC. I have had quite a few problems to install it on my Windows machine before so I am a bit worried about that.
Recommend and give me some ideas
If you guys can recommend me some cool software for MAC and give me some ideas like what is the best way to do this and that on MAC that would be extremely useful for me.
