I keep getting asked, since I work with both Windows and Apple which system do I feel is the better one to use. My answer I'm afraid is the one that everyone dreads - "it depends on what you want to do" I have never yet met a home / business user who can answer that question with complete confidence. Odd that.
I'm going to concentrate on the home user for the time being mainly because of the way that the home market is changing.
Apple in the home, I could go all technical here but home users don't always follow and lets face it why should they? All they want is a computer that will turn on when they want it too, pick up their e-mail and browse the internet, with the option of perhaps storing their pictures, music and possibly movies.
This is where apple comes into it's own! I'm sure that if you have used Windows at any point with a digital camera when you connect you have install drivers and a whole raft of software just to get your photos from the camera onto your PC and then depending on which software came with the camera depends on where your photo's end up on the hard drive (although this problem has been addressed a little in Vista and I'm told a lot in Windows 7).
With apple you connect your camera to the machine, the software detects the camera, opens Apple's own photo software iPhoto (which as bundled software goes is very good) downloads all the photo's from the camera for you and then organise's them into date order for you, all this happens before you've even realised it's done it for you!
So the time you would have spent with a windows machine installing drivers and software can now be spent actually working with your photo's (Ok thats a little unfair - you only have to install the drivers and software on the Windows machine once, but I can't promise you won't have to re-install the next time you turn it on).
More to to be added
This is my first attempt at blogging (in-fact the first time at keeping any kind of journal) so lets see how it goes.
Maybe this is just a place to vent or not to be fair I don't expect anybody to read this blog but there you go.
Right a little about me first, I am an Apple computer engineer currently living in Hailsham, working in Watford, yes I know long old drive to the office! so expect many entries about London's biggest car park (yes that's right the M25).
I have been working in IT since 2001 and began my career at Computer Plus, a small IT Support company based in Eastbourne, a good company to work for, but I felt my time was up as I wanted to move towards a more Apple orientated field rather than limit myself to Microsoft.
The move paid off!
From what I gather most people blog about their day and what they have done, I am planning to use this blog to offer my views about other things (my life is far to boring to put it on the web). Everything from technology to films, which I enjoy, infact one friend was told when it comes to film, if I say it's good it is and she will go and see it, if I say it's bad then she will avoid it like the preverbal plague!
Thats all for now I will shall return.