In ten years of Microsoft trying to push the tablet as a computer the tablet just hasn't ever taken off. The one thing the naysayers of the iPad have never asked themselves is why has tablet computing failed up until this point?

The answer is simple... they're too under powered to do the work people think they should be doing. Essentially what is happening is people expect to work on a tablet the same way they do on a laptop but the specs of a tablet and the ridiculous price of these tablets make them useless for a computer replacement. In fact the idea that the tablet is meant to replace the computer is actually proof that no one really understands the concept of the tablet.

A tablet computer is not designed to replace computers but to act as a compliment to computers. It's best to think of it as a compliment to a desktop rather than a compliment to a laptop because as soon as you introduce a laptop into the equation people will think it makes no sense to replace the laptop with something so under powered. And to a lesser extent they would be right. That being said though a tablet does make a pretty good alternative to a laptop when conjoined with a desktop.

So, a Mac miracle happened recently. Not that any of you would have noticed, as it was a family miracle and not one broadcast across the net. My eldest brother after years of using a PC, decided to buy not one Mac, but two. To me, after years of using Macs and going on about how great they are...it was pleasing to know that he...well, never listened to a word I said.

This is because I should point out that his email contained two gems of info. One, that friends had been convincing him to buy a Mac. And two, he was really worried because he had all these M$ Office docs and what the heck was he going to do with those!?

At that point, I introduced my head briefly to the same wall I had been banging against for years, then realised...as I often have, that you simply can't win. I didn't feel like I had failed in preaching to convertees (those that I try to convert), because they simply don't know they need to be converted.

I think I've probably gone through 3 cheap scanners in my time as an OS X user. Not so much that I use a scanner a lot (the one next to me hasn't been turned on in over a year)...but because the fact that many of the previous scanners would only work up until a certain version of OS X.

So tonight I desperately needed to scan something. The drivers would only run in 10.3 and below...so the answer? Boot into Windows, where the drivers for this old scanner continue to be maintained and are available for XP. Phew!

And yes, the other way to look at it is that I basically had to go back to an old OS (XP) to run an old program.

Blogs are great because you can just make up words like “MAC-u-cating”, it really means duplicating.

Going Mac meant I had to duplicate my old PC working environment, it’s almost a joke to try to class a PC desktop as an actual working environment against what I now have on the Mac. This Macbook is just a dream, what a machine!.
I look at my old 15” 1024 X 768 Compaq Evo Laptop, where I spent countless hours doing everything I could on it and now the Macbook Pro 17” widescreen  1680 X 1050 display, wow there is no true comparison.

Firing up the Macbook Pro for the very first time was really exciting, so exciting I even took photos and later posted them on my own blog. That’s almost a sad thing to do, but hey I wasn’t the only one that did this sort of thing, in my quest to up skill for the up and coming Mac I noticed some really sadder people videoed their first Mac experience and upload on to YouTube.

After the initial “please put your details in”, it booted through and asked to connect into my works wireless network. In goes the password and bang; I’m up on the net to do its f

It's a question I seem to be getting asked by many of my PC friends (or is that my now PC 'fiends').
I just say, "why not go Mac" then they give me 100 million reasons why a PC is better than a Mac, how much cheaper it is, which is quite amusing because it's a one sided viewpoint; as I know they have never used a Mac in their life or realise it’s true value!
So why did I go Mac and not go PC?
It came down to me wanting a new laptop with $2K in my back pocket ready to spend. I knew Macs were around but didn’t consider buying one until the

WARNING: The opinions expressed in this piece are gross generalisations based on my own personal experiences and observations. It is not something to be taken to heart but neither are the points things that don't happen. After all I've seen and experienced them and I exist so so must they, although there is that whole Dark City thing that could be used as an example of experiences of not being real I suppose.

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Hi everyone.  I stumbled across this site last night while doing some Mac NTFS research and I was captivated by it so I thought I would become a regular member.  After a lot of research and frustration I have decided to go from being a hard core Windows user to a Macintosh user.