I've been meaning to write about this for a while now, but it's official: I'm a Mac guy.

I've always liked Apple. We had an Apple II back in the 70s, I used Macs (not my own) all through college to write papers. I did nonlinear video editing on a Mac (Media 100) back when I was making quicktime video highlights as part of my job as the producer of the World Sports pages for CNNSI.com. However when it came time to buy my first computer (1996, Computer City, Atlanta), I bought a PC clone. I had been buying PCs ever since. And I've been frustrated beyond belief and wanted to destroy every one of them.

I had never had my own Mac until recently. Now I have 3. Granted one is the iMac I use at work, and I still have 2 PCs, but I have 2 Macs at home.

One is a G4 desktop, which I don't use all that much. I'm working on upgrading it. Just upped the RAM to 1GB and bought a wireless card for it. It still runs OS 10.3 so I need to get a copy of Tiger (It won't support 10.5 since it's only 800 MHz).

The other is my 17" MacBookPro which I absolutely love. Sleek and shiny and almost never crashes, which is more than I can say for any PC I've had used. I put a lot of pressure on it by multitasking and running too many apps at the same time. Mostly the machine handles anything I throw at, but every once in a while, it craps out. It doesn't help that I have over 5,000 fonts installed. I'm just too lazy to deal with managing them.

I still run one of notebook PCs because there are some applications (Half-Life, Autostitch, etc.) that don't run on the Mac or I don't have their Mac equivalent. Every time I get on the PC, I'm reminded how crappy they are. I don't know what the problem is exactly, maybe some spyware or a trojan I can't detect or get rid of, but the system is so fucking slow to do anything. When the "flashlight" comes on repeatedly when you open "My Computer", you know there are real issues.

It's hard for me to imagine myself ever buying a PC again. There would have to be a radical sea change that I don't expect. Microsoft seems to be going in reverse when it comes to OS performance and quality while Apple, with a huge advantage to begin with, keeps getting better and better. More applications are being wirrten for the Mac as it chips away at the PC market share, which is fantastic. The only left to do is by stock in Apple.