Aral Balkan

After months of speculation and rumour, Steve Jobs is about to begin his keynote at WWDC '06 and give the world its first look at Leopard. Why am I interested? Well, apart from hoping that he'll be announcing the immediate availability of Merom-based MacBook Pros (my cheque book is at hand), I want to learn all about my future operating system (Leopard) as I'm switching to a Mac after about twenty two years on PCs, first with DOS, then Gem Desktop for a bit and, finally, Windows.

Why? Well, quite frankly because I've had it with Windows.

I've had it with some driver conflicting with the hibernation feature on my laptop and with Windows crashing while in Standby only to restart so that my notebook becomes a fiery inferno in my bag. I've had it with ridiculous boot up and shut-down times. I've had it with looking at Mac users with a tear in my eye as they close the lids on their laptops without a worry in the world. It's the little things, perhaps -- but it's not little when you move around as much as I do.

Oh, yeah, and they look lovely too! There, I've said it! :)

Ooh, it's started. You can read a live transcript from MacRumors.com.

Comments

• >> I’ve had it with some driver conflicting with the hibernation feature on my laptop and with Windows crashing while in Standby only to restart so that my notebook becomes a fiery inferno in my bag. >> Ditto -- the inferno thing happened to me on Wednesday night -- I paid how much for this high end dev tablet and this is how it performs. Almost bought last week as well, but wanted to wait to today for the annoucnement.

  by Bryan Zug on 2006-08-07 17:37:13

• I prefer the transcript at Apple Matters: http://live.applematters.com/ I've also been thinking about buying a macbook pro, so I'm hoping the merom-based will be introduced too ... The battery life and noise issues of the macbook pro are already resolved, but what do you think about the heat issues that users have been complaining about ?

  by Heidi on 2006-08-07 18:12:27

• Hi Heidi, I've heard rumours that the heat issues are (somewhat) better after an update that keeps the fan on longer. Then again, I don't know if there's any truth to this -- I've read so many Mac rumours in the past few weeks that I can't remember what is what anymore! :)

  by aral on 2006-08-07 18:45:18

• congrats on switching to Mac! on the other hand, I don't get to make fun of your windows laptop anymore :(

  by Daniel Spronk on 2006-08-07 19:01:08

• Sorry, Daniel -- I didn't mean to deprive you of your favorite passtime ;P

  by aral on 2006-08-08 13:40:52

• I hate to be the bearer of bad news to you because I do encourage your switch to Mac as I did 6 months ago and have never looked back, but you should be aware that both myself and a co-worker have both experienced opening our laptop bags and our new Macbook Pros had either never gone to sleep or came alive at some point and were hot as the devil. I think Mac has some sleep issues as well... check out the support discussion boards for more. I still think you will be happy you switched! Steve.

  by Steve House on 2006-08-08 13:50:02