After literally years of contemplation I decided (more like talked my self into) it was time to buy a Mac. Thats right, I gave in and purchased an iMac and wow… am glad I decided too. The responsiveness, tools, eye candy, and usability to name a few are reasons enough for me to have bought this Mac.

The responsiveness of this computer out weighs anything I have seen with a PC. What do I mean by responsiveness? Well lets just say when I tell this thing to “wake up” while its been sleeping it comes up immediately unlike the PC which seems to have its own snooze button and takes a little longer to get out of bed.

The tools available for web development and graphics design have everything covered that a PC can do and then some. I enjoy using the Adobe Creative Suite with Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash and Illustrator. While the Adobe Suite is run on Windows as well, the speed at which the applications open and run on the Mac leave the PC in the dust. I have since found a simple and light weight text editor called TextMate (to replace Dreamweaver), not only does it recognize HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP, and much more but it also recognizes Ruby on Rails. Before with my PC I would run different programs for the different languages I was programing in no longer is that the case. Speaking of ROR (Ruby on Rails), developing applications is a breeze considering its pre-installed on Leopard. Saved me a lot of time from having to download and install repositories and hope it worked like I have had to do in the past on Ubuntu.

But I have got to say that the best part of using a Mac isn’t that everything works, or that the applications load quick, or even the lack of the “blue screen of death“, no the best part for me is the usability that Leopard offers. Everything from spaces to expose’ to the dock. Leopard makes life easy on the user with the logical order and organization of files and folders. Everything is straight forward with a “what you see is what you get” mentality.

In all, I am really just trying to say that I enjoy using a Mac and if you happen to be on the fence trying to decide if they are worth the money, in my humble opinion they are worth every cent!

Photo Credit: Apple Inc.