The Mac difference

Microsoft gets a great deal of bad press, and if you have the misfortune to have to wrangle with the peculiarities of the Windows operating system, you would appreciate why. I’m an accountant, so at work I am armed with a P4 Dell running Windows NT, and it’s a depressing experience.

Drab spreadsheet after drab spreadsheet, such is my Excel-powered existence (not to mention time spent with the unfathomable and unwieldy Internet Explorer). Yet at five-o’clock, each and every day, I can emerge from my office and go home to a wonderful enlightened world of Macintosh. Ah the simplicity, elegance, and functionality of the OS X operating system. The ease at which my iPod syncs with Tiger, the pure tactile ecstasy of the PowerBook, and the robust portability of my iBook, never has technology felt so right.

For those yet to make the change, take a view of this video of a Microsoft makeover of the iPod packaging, it’s a mock-up of course, but it brilliantly conveys the difference between the two companies.