Peter Wright, an accomplished author who has been writing about Microsoft technologies since Visual Basic 3 (including some best selling Visual Basic books), recently decided to drop Microsoft completely and switch to Macintosh and Ruby on Rails. In this blog posts he details the circumstances that led to his decision.
This is one of the best switcher stories I have read. It is long, but very thorough. Wll worth a read.
One user gives a nice run down of the value of using a Mac for making music.
“After years of putting it off, I finally succumbed to the world of Apple and bought myself a new MacBook. Two months after buying it I feel it is time to give my fellow musicians the heads up on […]
Computers are distraction devices. I don’t know about you, but at any one time, I can have more than 20 applications running. These include: two email programs; an RSS newsreader; one or two browsers; Word; an image editor; and a slew of other apps.
What this means is not that my computer runs slow - I have 1GB of memory so most times it’s fine - but that each of those programs is a potential distraction - especially the ones that talk to the internet.
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