The Best Windows Machine Ever Built*

Without blatantly dating myself, I was once the source of envy (happened once) in college. My freshman year I had the greatest computer, a Macintosh. While it was not new to the market, it was safe to say that most students at the University of New Hampshire did not have access to one. I was in a crowd of one (as far as I know); a non-CS major, I was viewed with some degree of awe (again, a unique collegiate experience for me) that I had the inclination to learn how to use one.

While most people were using typewriters (remember those?) a fairly strait forward processing program allowed me to hunt/peck my way through any paper.

Fast forward, grad school, work world, bye-bye Apple. Life dictated adherence to Windows OS. I bought lots of grey boxes, both desktop and laptop. Windows OS got bigger, slower, and quite frankly a bloated mess of software overkill.

The title of this blog is a direct quote from David Cohen* (minus the quotes), so I can’t take credit for the origin. I can, however, take note that I am part of a growing number of people making a switch.

Give me a clean OS, visually appealing with lots of great features that I care about, not some engineer  (oh look, how exciting, excel has more cells).  Please give me a platform that works with my entire life, not just my work life.  Make it fun to use, it needs to run PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.  If you make it grey, please make it look somewhat cool.

The best Windows machine ever built? My Powerbook G4.