Windows Expert Jumps Ship

An anonymous reader writes to let us know that Scott Finnie, Computerworld's Windows expert, has given the final verdict to Windows after 3 months of using a Mac. And the verdict is: "Sayonara." Finnie is known to readers here for his many reviews of Vista as it progressed to release. Quoting: "If you give the Mac three months, as I did, you won't go back either. The hardest part is paying for it — everything after that gets easier and easier. Perhaps fittingly, it took me the full three-month trial period to pay off my expensive MacBook Pro. But the darn thing is worth every penny."

a payment plan???

[User 956]

Perhaps fittingly, it took me the full three-month trial period to pay off my expensive MacBook Pro.

Jesus. Did he buy it from DeBeers, or something?

Re:a payment plan???

[Heir Of The Mess]

>Perhaps fittingly, it took me the full three-month trial period to pay off my expensive MacBook Pro.

Jesus. Did he buy it from DeBeers, or something?

Maybe the Mac he got came with a pound of coke and a lifetime porn subscription, which would explain why he had such a good time using it.

Re:Welcome to the light

[Anonymous Coward]

We had a similar experience, but we replaced all of our workstations with rocks and promptly fired the admins.

A BROKE Windows Expert?

[LibertineR]

Forgive me for saying so, but how many people with Windows expertise and a software reviewing job to boot, who have trouble paying for a laptop? Budget concerns? Payment plans? I mean, WTF?

Any city, any country, an acknowledge 'expert' ought to be able to buy stuff without bitching.

Is he married?

Oh, wait.....

Re:"Windows" versus "A Mac"?

[gardyloo]

You Linux users out there should be angry

      Oh, we are. We're fucking enraged . We just don't know why.

I'm a parent...

[Franklin Brauner]

...and I buy my kids Macs.
You see, I love my kids.
--
Franklin

Your quote:
You can pay $1300 for a mac...or you can spend $700 for a PC. Which do you THINK parents are going to buy?

Re:Lots of folks making the switch

[be-fan]

For casual users, downtime and reduced maintenance are decent reasons to switch. A Mac is like a Toyota, it requires almost no servicing, and will withstand a lot of user abuse. Since my mom got a Windows machine, the number of long-distance support sessions I've had to hold have dropped from a couple a month to once in the whole year.

Transmissions from the UNIX Alliance...

[Digital_Mercenary]

-Episode 1

Y0d4- to >g4+35
Windows is the path to the dark side. Windows leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

-Episode 4

06iw4n- to >1uk3
I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it. He feared you might follow old 06iw4n on some damn fool idealistic crusade like your father did. It's your father's OSX. This is the weapon of a Computer User. Not as clumsy or as random as a Windows OS, but an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. For over a thousand generations, the Computer Users were the guardians of # and / in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Empire.

Re:I recently switched

[f8l_0e]

He's just pissed that Objective C doesn't support the GOSUB keyword.

The ad that didn't make it

[Jesus_666]

We see A, a typical "I'm a Mac" guy and B, a typical "I'm a PC" guy.
A: "Hi, I'm a Mac expert."
B: "And I'm a Mac user."
A: "Shouldn't you be the PC expert?"
B: "Yeah, but I just switched."
A: "Well... They couldn't have made this ad any more blatant, could they?"
Steve Jobs (offscreen): "Shut up!"
A and B stand around a few seconds in uncomfortable silence.
A looks at B from the side.
A (mumbling): "There goes the neighbourhood."
B: "What did you say?"

"Apple. It's not just for us painfully hip elitists anymore and boy, are we pissed about it."



The sad part is that this actually fits the tone of the "I'm a Mac" ads rather well...

Re:Lots of folks making the switch

[Darby]

Who still uses wired ethernet in their house?

People who like to be able to watch multiple TV shows captured in 2GB/hour MPEG2 on different frontends simultaneously ( let alone people with HD ) while still having plenty of bandwidth left over for traffic to the firewall for internet traffic as well as various other LAN traffic with zero stuttering.

And you call yourself a geek ;-)

Re:I recently switched

[misanthrope101]

Apple really needs a modern development enviornment

Um, I think they've had vi running on OSX for some time now. Where have you been?

Re:Doubtful.

[caluml]

Just installing an OS and then letting the machine run idle for a few hours doesn't strike me as a particularly good test; for good QC you'd want heavy processor usage and disk I/O, in order to make sure that everything gets correctly stressed. That implies some sort of special software (which needs to be deleted afterwards);

What you seek is installing Gentoo from the Live CD! Plenty of disk, network, and CPU activity there.

Missread the title

[chord.wav]

I read "Windows Expert Jumps Sheep" and I thought WTF these guys smoked?