His Windows-based co-workers can't believe their eyes. To the untrained eye, the iMac looks like nothing more than a sleek flat-panel screen on a stylish stand. My friend Phil has an iMac on his desk, along with an Apple wireless keyboard and mouse. The number one reason for switching to the Mac is simple: it just works. dll file that you erased from your computer last week? Alarmed by unexplained hard drive chatter? Sick of printers, scanners, and other peripherals that plug and don't play? Weary of losing data to crashes? Tired of figuring out which. As a result, the job took just two hours. But my Mac didn't crash-not during editing, not during saving, not during printing. Because Photoshop or Microsoft Publisher would crash every other hour, the project took two days to complete. I'd done this before on my Windows-based PC. I still love my very first Mac: the classic 12-inch PowerBook G4.
Each file contained a small amount of text, plus four big, fat, high-resolution images.įigure 1. The Friday after I bought my first Mac (the classic 12-inch PowerBook G4 pictured in Figure 1), I had to mock up 78 files for a publisher's art department. It Just Works by Mark McElroy 101 Reasons: To Switch to the Mac