I’ve been a PC guy since, well, not the beginning, but since I had hacked my Amiga 500 into unworkability. Then a friend built me a pc from spare parts he had lying around, and I was up and running with PCDOS and Windows 3.0!
For the next many years I built or re-built every pc I owned. Up until the end of 2004, I always existed on a single desktop. Then I decided I laptop would be useful for conferences, so I bought a cheap Toshiba and fell in love. Even though it has about half the power of my desktop, it soon became my main machine.
Then, earlier this year, I got a free Mac Mini (yes, those sites really work). I’d used a Mac briefly at work before, but was never comfortable with it. So, for a while, the Mini mostly just sat there. Then I decided to move all my music over to it, and reformatted my iPod to Mac format. As the months go by, I find myself doing more and more on the Mac, and less and less on the pc desktop.
Part of the reason is that the pc has some kind of hardware problem that causes it to freeze up all too often. Normally, at this point, I’d buy a new motherboard or something. But I think I’m just going to let it go. I just got a case that will convert my DVD-RW drive to an external drive. Gonna hook that up to the Mini. At that point, I will have no use for the pc. I think I’ll let my daughter use it.
Of course, I still do development on the pc laptop. Actually I have two laptops, one for my day job, and one personal. But beyond development, I’d say the Mac gets equal or better attention from me now. Wow.