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Earlier this year I did what I considered a risky step in my life: After more than twenty years of working with PCs I switched to a Mac - a MacBook to be precise - and I should have made that step many, many years ago! Let me just say that life with a Mac is so pain-free, it’s not even funny, and I never needed to look into any documentation to get adjusted to the new operating system.

No more defrags, no more disk cleaning, no more virus checks. No more trips to the bathroom to give the computer time to start up. No more worrying what to do about the “unused icons on your desktop.” No more worrying “Does my laptop have enough battery power to shut down?”

No more “Windows Live OneCare needs your attention” - Right now my desktop computer is having trouble updating MS VisualStudio and it attempts the same update every time when I turn off the computer. When I turn the computer on again I see a message - roughly 8 minutes after power-up - that it was not able to send out an error report… What?

The only reason I keep the desktop is that pesty Quickbooks I will keep until the end of the year. Then it’s time to install an accounting program that doesn’t come with a blackmail policy. If you don’t buy the next, expensive upgrade - which will help us to overcome the current economic slump - within the next three months you will not be able to send invoices per e-mail anymore. It seems the Mac world is based on a far better culture than the PC world.

Yes, a Mac is a little bit more expensive than a PC, but, on the other hand, what you get is far more than you paid for. This is not restricted to better hardware quality (the screen is so much better than on any PC laptop in the same price range), but also far better software than a PC. No more removing the battery when you laptop hangs up… Well, I don’t want to go on like this; the list of advantages is huge.

What you get with a Mac is the peace of mind; you spend more effective time on the computer. Let me just add another example: Recently I purchased a network-capable ink-jet printer so that my wife and I could share it. I connected the printer to the network and told the Mac there was a new printer. The response was something like “How about this one?” and I clicked “yes”. That took about two minutes. My wife’s PC had no idea and could not be convinced to find a new device on the network. Instead I needed to install the CD first, then restart the computer, and then look for a new printer. That took about 15 minutes.

At the moment I log only into the PC when absolutely necessary and I do this per Remote Desktop Connection through my Mac.

To make my experience even more ecstatic I received my $30 upgrade to Snow Leopard today and istalled it with no problems whatsoever. If I may say so, but even before the switch from Windoes for Workgroups 3.11 to Windows-Me (you need to look those up in your history books) I had asked for a Windows 4.0 instead of a totally new operating system. My point is, don’t add more functions but make your system faster, better, and more stable. That is exactly what the people at Apple did - they didn’t need to make it more stable, though. My MacBook never crashed.

Enough with the drueling… but just one last word:
Once you go Mac you never go back!

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THE BLEEDING HILLS
A Novel by Wilfried F. Voss

The Irish War is officially a part of history, but not for Finnean Whelan, an IRA veteran of almost 40 years. British Intelligence has produced evidence that he is the mastermind behind a conspiracy to assassinate the First Minister of Northern Ireland. Finn is protected in his exile in the United States after having worked for the CIA. Consequently, British Intelligence has come up with a plan to lure Finn back into their jurisdiction, Northern Ireland, by revealing the identity of the man who is ultimately responsible for the killing of Finn’s wife, Shauna. Here they hope not only to apprehend him, but also lead them to another conspirator, Martin Sheehan, who hides in the Northern provinces. For Whelan this is not only a mission of revenge, but marks the beginning of a journey into the past and the return to the one true love: Ireland.

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