Updated: how I learned to stop worrying and love Windows XP

As many of you know I have been a Mac user since around 1990 and up until the last few months I was a big fan of Macintosh and everything Apple does. That has now changed. I have decided to switch from Apple to Windows XP. Here are just a few of the reasons why:

• Mac's are just to small: Sure the Mac Mini is a the lowest priced Macintosh ever, but it's just so small. I can buy a much larger Dell for the same price.
• The iPod isn't that great: I'm mad that my three year old iPod can't do all the same things that a brand new iPod Photo can do. So I'm going out and buying a Creative Zen Micro 6GB.
• Where is my Powerbook G5?: I've been considering buying a new Mac laptop for the last few months and I am really mad that Apple hasn't accommodated my need for a G5 in a laptop. How dare they hold out on a product that I want!
• 1 Button Mouse: I am sick and tired of having to use a one button mouse. I just got so used to using a 2 button mouse at work on my Windows XP computer at work that I can't go back. Sure I could buy a 2 button mouse for my Mac and it would work just fine, but I want my computer to come with a 2 button mouse.

I hope that everyone can understand my decision to stop using Macintosh. By the way, I'm looking for good recommendations for a Windows laptop. I would like it to have a 15 inch widescreen display, an 80 GB hard drive, Gigabit Ethernet, Firewire 400 and 800, DVD burner, built in 802.11G and Bluetooth 2.0. Also, I would like it if it was only about 1 inch thick. Any recommendations?

Update:As I am sure most of you guessed, this was an April Fool's Day joke. For posterity's sake I have included links to a few images below:

• Zen Micro header


• A screenshot illustrating some of the subtle (or perhaps not so subtle) changes to my weblog for the joke.

Posted by Noah Brimhall at April 1, 2005 10:51 AM