Apple fanboism, or why I've joined the cult

A little bit of history about myself, I've been a MS-DOS/Windows user for as long as I remember, and been using various GNU/Linux distros since 2001. I never took Apple or Macs seriously, yet didn't hate them and secretly loved them but never considered getting one, not until I realized how much Microsoft over promised and under delivered with Vista. So I've decided to give Macs a try, did the obvious and bought myself a MacBook. The MacBook came shipped with Leopard, iLife 08 and a various number of utilities chief among them XCode, a full featured development environment.

If I can describe Mac OS X in the least number of words, I'd say it is the most advanced and the best OS I've ever come across. After buying the MacBook and spending time with Mac OS X, I asked myself the obvious why did I wait so long to switch. Everything is done in a better, more logical and more efficient way. For example, most applications, are installed by simply downloading the DMG (Disk Image) and dragging the program to anywhere on your HD. There is no installation process, no registry and no dependencies. For the few that require an installation process, it is a no fuzz and no headache process.

It is hard to put it in convincing words for the Apple-haters, why I love the Mac? Could it be because it is so simple to use, everything just works. Or could it be, that it is a powerful development platform, with a full fledged UNIX kernel underneath. Could it be for how easy it is to deal with images, video and audio. Maybe because of how easy it is to get connected. It's all of that and more, and I haven't gotten to the best bit yet, their hardware. Mac OS X as all people know can be legally installed on Macs only, and some people for some reason can never justify this, they consider Apple hardware to be overpriced. Macs are not overpriced, Apple doesn't design cheap low end computers, all Macs are high end machines, with the best of the best in terms of precision engineering and materials. Check any running Mac and you'll be amazed by how quiet it is, you can't even hear it running. The materials they use for the casing, are of the highest quality, have high resistance to heating and keep all the noise inside. In the case of MacBooks it is all of the above plus being extremely thin, MacBooks are thinner and lighter than any comparable laptop while still having a full size keyboard and a high quality widescreen display. Plus Mac hardware is the only way to get their software and what amazing software it is.

To sum up why I've become an Apple fanboi, their software and hardware is the best and worth every single penny.