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After a week of only being able to do non-mission critical work, such as answer some emails, and resize some photos in photoshop, not to mention breaking down into tears at the new 1,500 dollar toy that is destined to sit beside my work computer, used only for email, I have started using the Windows again. Amazingly I knocked off 5 things from my to-do list in a little over an hour.

I've not given up, but this is definitely more difficult that it should be. One things for sure, you wont ever see my smiling face on a Mac commercial even if I should manage the switch. It aint fun, and it aint something that makes me smile.

Now that I have done a little work at least, I don't have to feel so bad about going back and spending more time fighting with the new toy. My task now is to write a script that automatically replaces all yen marks with backslashes every time I save a file in BBEdit.

Bummer! Most programmers/unix/linux users enjoy the switch after figuring out where stuff is, etc., but I guess for every yin there's a yang.

I was actually surprised when you bought the mac since you sounded pretty negative about it when you were just looking. Despite what some mac zealots might claim there are definately some things that the pc is better at.

Anyway, I hope you get the ibook sorted out. If not, I believe you'll find that the resale value is a lot higher than that of a used pc. :)

I figured why not? I wanted a change, and although I am in no way displeased with windows, I was sure that Mac would be just as good, and that anything I can do on Windows I can do on Mac....

I hear you. I first started using a mac when I bought an imac back at the end of 1999. I needed a newer computer at home, mainly for web browsing, email, music, and I thought it would be fun to use something different.

It was and I still enjoy using the mac as my "personal" computer. However, my work still revolves around the pc and microsoft.

Interesting... my husband has recently switched to a new G5 at work (we have a powerbook g5 and an IBM laptop at home on our airport network), and he seems to have adjusted fairly smoothly. He also has been using BBEdit to do a lot of his programming, although I will say he bought the American style keyboard, not the Japanese one.

Of course, from a speed viewpoint, there's no comparison between a dual-processor g5 and the new iBook...

MYKP: Does your powerbook at home have a G5? If so, tell me where you bought it... :-]

Seriously, I probably won't get a new 'book till they do ship one with a G5.

I wasn't kidding about being willing to swithc you. If you really don't like your laptop we can do a trade. I'd really like my laptop to be the same OS as my main work machine. Let me know if you're interested. I'll be at the blogger thing tonight too. Now I know why I haven't seen you on ichat though.

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