Celebrity Switchers - David Alison

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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5 Questions Interview With David Metzener - A Switcher

When I asked David Metzener to write his story I didn’t know he had such vast experience with computers and a unique chance to work on the Apple ][ back in 1979. He runs and amazing blog - Weblog of a Switcher and just yesterday his re-switch story was published on this website - Vista was the last straw!.

David is passionate about technology and working as a Software Test Engineer makes him look deeper into the hearts of computers and operating systems.

David, it looks like that after many years you had a big come back to Mac platform as your computer journey began with Apple ][ and the first Macintosh. How was it like, from today's perspective to work on these machines?

It's actually amusing to think that an Apple ][ running at 1MHz with 48KB or RAM could be considered a "fast" computer. However, the Apple ][ was a darn fast computer and very efficient with it's clock cycles. When you consider the first IBM computers were running at 4MHz and when compared side by side, the two computers pretty much ran at the same speed.
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