Two years ago if someone had told me that I would be getting onto Apple bandwagon I would have probably laughed it off as a stupid joke. Well, here I am, typing this on my MacBook. They didn't say 'Hindsight is a bitch' for no reason.
Anyway, going back to my question ... why Mac? To answer the question, I've to rewind back a little to year 2007 when I bought my previous laptop HP Pavilion DV6700. I must admit it was a pretty solid laptop. 3yrs + with all the rough usage! Apart from overheating and occasionally creating some noise during start ups, it felt like it would go on and on without dying until recently (4 days back) when it died out of the blue! The timing of its death is probably one of the worst timed deaths since Thanksgiving just flew by and iPad 2 release is still at least 4 months away. My hunt for new laptop began on Saturday morning December 11,2010 and ended at the Apple store on the same evening. Pretty short hunt! I was looking at various options - HP Envy series, Dell Adamo,Lenovo. HP Envy - my room mate bought it. It looks similar to Macbook Pro with all that unibody design copied from Macbook. Dell Adamo looks really neat but rejected it for the same reason as my other room mate - it doesn't come in 15" model. A really stupid move on Dell's part. Lenovo - My other room mate bought this one on Thanksgiving deal. He got an awesome deal on that one! But like I said, I missed the Thanksgiving deals. Macbook has always been on my radar (at least for the last one year). For the last one year, I've been thinking about learning a technology outside of what I do at work. One of the things that I've started learning is Objective C. Precisely why Mac has been on the radar. It would be really cool if I can get something going on this area. I would really love to develop some iOS app! All I need to do is focus! I am sure if I can get it started (which I have already), I would get something done by mid 2011.
Also, one other reason for going to Mac was to really know what's that 'Apple magic' is all about. I already knew that Apple knows how to make beautiful,expensive gadgets.. thanks to my past three years experience with iPhone 3G and iPhone 4. But I really wanted to know how different is Mac OS when compared to Windows. From what I've seen, there's not much difference. Infact some of the things on Mac outright suck! I don't see any "magical" factor here. But I am definitely liking what I am seeing on the hardware front (particularly the build quality of this Apple gadget) but no way it's worth that $1100 Apple premium (I am assuming I can get similar or better configuration for $1000 if I had opted for Windows based PC). It could be a problem with the transition. May be or may be not. Only time will tell.
