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Exactly 10 years ago, on August 15, 1998 Apple released their first iMac. A beautiful all-in-one green Mac. It didn’t have a floppy drive, which was shocking at that time and it had 2 USB ports. Many people knew that this was a big step forward and that Apple was moving in the right direction with Steve Jobs on board. How many of us thought about buying Apple stocks then?
Watch a video of this defining moment in tech history when Steve showed an iMac to the world - the most important Apple presentation since releasing the first Mac in 1984.
There is also an amazing iMac advert called “3 steps” and a photo gallery prepared by Wired called ‘10 Years of Cuddly, Friendly iMacs‘.
BTW which iMac is your favourite? Let me know in comments below.
In one of the latest posts I wrote about Firefox 3 aiming to set a world record during download day. As a launch date for the new internet browser is today, ZDNET has already reported rought start in Firefox 3 download fiesta: Ready, set, kaboom. It is not a surprise as shortly after 10 a.m. PDT (Mozilla’s official launch time) they reached 14,000 downloads per minute! A few hours later situation got stable as I managed to download my own version of Firefox 3.
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David Alison who was a hardcore Windows user for 17 years, spent a lot of time to share details of his switch to Mac.
I spent 17 years using Windows, a couple more if you count the experiments with the dreadful Windows/286 & Windows/386. Man real mode sucked. I was a heavy DOS user before that. On Windows I went through 3.0, 3.1, Workgroups, NT 4.0, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003 Server and Vista. I had spent countless hours honing my skills with the platform, both as a power user and professional software developer. How would it be possible for someone with my background to switch to a completely new platform and walk away from all of that history?
David was very surprised when his daughter, who was accepted to go to Virigina Tech was required to buy a Macintosh. It came out as a great occasion for him to play around with the new technology.
“I was just tired of Windows. There was nothing about it that really excited me. I waited 5 years for Vista to come around and when it did I was unimpressed. There was nothing that really stood out.”
Enjoy reading David’s exciting story on his blog:
- A hardcore Windows guy gets a Mac
- Mac: After two months of Mac, here’s why I switched
- Why switching to Mac was the right move for me
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Reason #1
What really kicked it for me was having to “prove” that the Dell Re-install version of Windows was a Genuine copy of Windows. To be told I was a pirate just because I was re-installing Windows due to the lack of security that Microsoft has in Windows was pretty much the final straw.
There is always some story behind each switch and Dave Metzener was happy to share his experience and reasons for choosing a Mac. Checkout his story and find out what happened in 1979: Vista was the last straw!.
Reason #2
One of my friends couldn’t understand why I didn’t just buy a cheaper HP. I tried to explain that it was not about cost, but rather about what I wanted in a machine. I didn’t want to buy a laptop that I could just afford, I wanted to buy one that I “wanted”.
I am a big fan of SEOMoz.org, a Search Engine Optimization community where I learnt a lot about SEO from great content they publish at the website. When I found out that one of the SEOMoz staff members switched to a Mac, I got in touch with him to ask about his story. What is interesting, Mel Gray has not switched from Windows. Here is what happened: Switching from Linux to OS X.
I am proud to announce that the first switch story has been published on SwitchStories.com. It is great news as finally we can present the content this website was created for. Lee wrote a fantastic piece about his experience when switching from Windows to MacOS X. It is quite detailed and it covers a few months of the time he spent with his new operating system and machine. The story is very nice to read and I am sure you will enjoy it as I did:
I have been a PC user all my life. I have known Mac users and for as long as I can remember have been taking the p*ss out of them for one reason or another. In fact, I can’t actually think of a day that went by when I had nothing to say that was derogatory to my colleague with the Mac.
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Welcome to Switch Stories and be my GUEST! I am glad you are spending a few minutes of your precious time and pay attention to the site that has just been launched. I created it because I wanted to gather many switch stories together in one place. I believe we should have a choice when picking an operating system, internet browser or email application. I am also sure that there are more options that just one for each category. Next to switch stories you have hand-picked news and videos that will allow you to find out more about the piece of software you consider switching to.
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