He's a Mac, I'm a PC

On my husband's first day back in school - his old and reliable laptop gave out.  He took it to Geek Squad for a diagnosis - apparently the motherboard had given out.

This was a funny coincidence because my dad had just teased me about sending him our old laptop when we buy a new one a few days back.  And now here lies our oldest laptop - fried!

The technician advised that it would be easier to just buy a new laptop instead of trying to fix the old one.  Our cousin who repairs and builds computers said we could probably get it fixed in the Philippines - just buy the motherboard here and send it over - to my dad!  Now wasn't that just perfect timing?

My husband needs a laptop for school.  I've been thinking about trying out a Mac for a while now and my husband has always wanted an iMac (the desktop, he did not particularly want a Mac Book Pro).  As a student, my husband gets a discount on a Mac, but he was looking for an inexpensive replacement for the dead laptop at first.  I told him I probably should get him a durable unit that will last him through his planned three more years of study.  We looked at other high end PCs, but ended up buying a Mac Book Pro because there really isn't much of a price difference when you factor in the discount.

So we brought his new laptop home and set it up - loaded iWork on it and got it going.  We had to figure out a few things, but it was a relatively painless install and it was up and running in no time.  A few of his classmates have Mac Books too so he can probably ask them when he gets stuck.  So now my converted techie husband is a Mac - and I'm still a PC.

I probably will steal his Mac Book Pro from time to time - if only to see how my projects look in Safari and see if  I can work with iPhoto for my hobbies.  I'm a PC, my husband's a Mac.  Aside from the shift + end I use to select a whole line of text that I can't figure out how to do in the Mac Book Pro, I don't see any major differences between the two laptops.

Why am I sticking to my PC?  I'm more comfortable working (aka programming) on it.  My Dreamweaver runs without glitches and I edit my photos using Photoshop with no major issues - plus I've been using MS Office ever since I can remember!  I don't want to stress myself out by having to relearn how to do everything (not to mention, buying all new software) for a Mac - at least not yet.  But now I have an option to become familiar with a Mac - who knows, maybe in time I will make the big shift - I'm just not quite ready yet.