My first Apple, a 13″ MacBook

The first Mac.   A white polycarbonate Macbook.

Actually not the first since I’d been playing with OSX on VMware for a little more than six months.

Also picked up “Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual”.  It was a lot of help.

Why did I spring for a Mac —

• The improved quality.
• The Intel processors — with their switch to Intel the fanboys admitted how the much PowerPC processors sucked 🙂
• Leopard includes features that help get along in a Windows world — Windows makes up my day job.
• When I picked up a Macbook for the boss a few months ago there was time to play around and kick the tires.
• While Bootcamp allows you to run Windows on a Mac it was a bit too inconvenient.  VMware Fusion is quicker.
• I spend a decent amount of my system administration in Linux and BSD.