Updated: 12/1/04; 11:56:52 AM.
Shanghaied Weblog
Weblog from Marc van der Chijs, a Dutch entrepreneur living in Shanghai. A mix of serious and fun stories about China from the Chinese and international press, and some personal experiences from life in China.
        

Monday, November 22, 2004

    

I hesitated for a few months, but finally made the decision: I bought an Apple Powerbook. No more sudden crashes of Windows XP, no more viruses and spyware. I recently formatted my hard drive and reinstalled XP, but within 6 weeks the situation was back to unbearable again. Friends and colleagues who have been using Apple never seem to have these problems, and were always laughing at me (I was the only one at the film company using Windows). So I got so sick and tired of Windows, that two weeks ago I decided to join the other side.

I know it won't be easy: many software packages are not available for Apple and also the operating system takes a while to get used to. I am now using both my Sony Vaio and the Apple Powerbook parallel, but plan to make the complete switch within the next 10 days or so. One problem seems to be that the Apple cannot import my Outlook emails (at least that's what the Apple salesman told me). I need to do some more research on that (I don't alway trust salesmen), but that would be a major hassle. At least Powerpoint, Excel and Word documents seem not to be causing any problems.


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