Jeff Bridgforth :: Webcraftsman

Crafting Web sites since 1999

I am a Web designer passionate about creating elegant, inspiring, and usable Web experiences that connect with an audience and fulfull business objectives.

I made “The Switch” or Back to Mac

October 14, 2006

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I made the switch on Mon­day. I am no longer work­ing on a Dell com­puter but a 17″ Mac­Book Pro. I have been think­ing about mak­ing the switch for sev­eral months.

The option only opened up recently. I finally emailed one of my team lead­ers a cou­ple of weeks ago and told him I wanted to explore the pos­si­bil­ity of mov­ing to a Mac. By the end of the day, he approved me get­ting a new machine. We went to the Apple store and pur­chased this lovely machine on Monday.

I spent Mon­day and Tues­day load­ing soft­ware and copy­ing files from my Dell on DVD. On Wednes­day, I bought Par­al­lels and set up the Win­dows envi­ron­ment so I could con­tinue to use Out­look and test web­sites on IE6. Par­al­lels is great because you run the Win­dows envi­ron­ment inside a win­dow so you can move between Mac apps and the Win­dows environment.

Thurs­day was the first day I was able to have a more nor­mal work­day and really get the use the new com­puter. I have really liked it so far. My wife had a Mac Clas­sic when we got mar­ried and I bought a G4 when they first came out. I had to switch to a PC for work when we moved to Orlando. I am so excited to be able to come back to a Mac­In­tosh. I really like the OS so much better.

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