OK, I admit it. After
complaining about the Apple I had been playing around with for a few weeks, I began to notice, subtly at first, that the Apple was growing on me. I found myself edging away from the home PC more and picking up the Mac for various computing tasks. The end result is that months later, I've found myself to be the proud owner of a 12" iBook.
Many of the gripes made in my earlier post really turned out to be just the product of unfamilar UI. Once I got settled in, I found myself working at about the same pace (with some minor differences) as I would on a PC. The main benefits to the Mac are stability (things have messed up once on me thus far, but otherwise I've had 1.5 months of no OS crashes) and an excellent array of 1st and 3rd party apps that let you quickly and easily perform tasks that seem relatively difficult on the PC.