Apple Lures Even Loyal Windows Users

As I look at a newly arrived MacBook Air laptop, it occurs to me there has never been a better time to switch to a Mac.

That’s not something I say lightly. With the exception of a couple of years working at a magazine, I have never been a Mac user. After all, I’m a game player and games on the Mac are always light years behind games on Windows. I’ve not been smitten by Steve Jobs’ famous “reality distortion field,” and have decades behind me as a Microsoft user.

But Apple keeps moving forward, and Microsoft took a step backward with Windows Vista. Both systems crash. I’ve heard tech-support complaints on both sides and witnessed a few myself. Vista is noticeably slower than its predecessor, while Apple’s newest operating system, Leopard, is a big improvement on a lot of fronts.

My Mac has never crashed on its own (I have done some boneheaded things), but my Mac is faithful.