Jonathan Deacour, switcher. Cool.

This is my favorite anecdote:

[...]I also wonder if I don’t expect too much. When I bought a Dell desktop machine in 1998, I explained what I wanted to do with Windows to the consultant who was installing a DAT drive:

• Use all the Microsoft Office applications.
• Scan photographs and edit them in Photoshop.
• Run Personal Web Server to do some dynamic web development.
• Do my accounting with QuickBooks Pro.
• Run Microsoft’s Japanese IME so I could read and write Japanese.
• Burn CDs.
• Install a Firewire card and capture footage from my Sony digital handycam.

“You’d probably be better off splitting those tasks between two separate Windows machines,” he told me.

Funny -- I've been thinking lately about how much I'm liking the last few versions of MacOS X. Reasonably fast, consistent, and no crashes. My laptop is routinely running for weeks at a time without reboots. All the while I'm switching between three different WiFi networks, attaching and removing digital cameras, connecting to phones and PalmPilots via Bluetooth, posting to 'blogs, etc...