Image Credit: "Once you go Mac, you don't go back." by Andrew Trinh

I’ve been spoiled by Mac and  I will not go back to PC! I cant go back! Day 23 was filled with working on PC’s in school bas to finish work and fixing families laptops and desktops. I found myself making silly mistakes. I’ve grown accustomed to Mac and instantly missed my mouse-pad gestures and the placement of the command key, I expected everything to work as they did on my Mac. They did not. I was in a world I’ve known for many years that suddenly felt alien. Program installations displayed unnecessary pop-ups, the right mouse button seemed unnecessary (although I miss it the most on Mac), laptop cases felt flimsy, and the ALT key was in the wrong place! Clearly, Planet Windows was a world I left far behind 22 days ago.

I hoped  my migration to Mac would not diminish my familiarity with Windows. They are clearly different systems. Windows feels bulky, weighed down by unnecessary items and features. Accomplishing a task is just a bit more difficult. My return to Windows for a day reaffirmed what my experience has told me, Mac’s are simpler and easier. That’s not to say Mac’s aren’t powerful or complex, I barely scratched the capability of this PowerBook Pro. In many cases OS X is more complex of an operating system than Windows. Unlike Windows, your not met with its complexity head on. For specific tasks and operations you can use the Terminal, which requires knowledge of Linux, but it’s not a necessity.

OS X is an impressive operating system and Avalon (my MacBook Pro) is an amazing piece of hardware! I can’t go back to a Windows based system, unless I have to.

While I enjoy using Chrome, I keep coming back to Firefox, although many of Chrome’s features are very innovate (some you can mimic through extensions). There are a few issues I have with Chrome such as: weak support for RSS integration (such as Firefox’s Live Bookmarks), non-keyword bookmarking and lack of a bookmark export, poor support with streaming Windows Media Files (a symptom Firefox suffers from occasionally, not nearly as bad as Chrome) and its lack of add-on and extensions (although they are planned).

Chrome pushes a lot of innovative advances to the web browser it lags slightly behind Firefox as the browser to use (no one should be using IE). However, Chrome is still in development and very young compared to Firefox.  If the current development is any indication of what is to come, Chrome may and should take over as a dominant browser (provided Firefox remains stagnant).