I graduated from Drake University this spring and as a typical college graduate I received my share of presents. The biggest by far was the gift from my parents who offered to pay for half of a MacBook Pro. I was thrilled! Going through four years of business school where using a Macintosh didn’t make much sense, I was ecstatic to finally get a chance to do "normal" people things on my computer that didn't require a PC. Now, this isn't my first Mac and it probably won't be my last either. I first entered the Mac world my sophomore year in college when I bought an iMac with OS X Tiger. Then two MacBooks and three MacBook Pros later, I was without a Mac through my senior year in college. I guess you could call me a bit indecisive when it comes to my personal preference between PC and Mac. I always waffled back and forth between owning a PC or a Mac and sometimes both; both most recently. That is until I listed my Lenovo ThinkPad T410 on eBay and made the decision to work solely on the Macintosh platform.
Since I have made the switch to only using a Mac I haven’t run into any problems or times when I found myself wishing for my PC back. I have found that when I need to use a PC for anything, usually work, that my handy little Citrix plug-in alongside my remote desktop for Mac by Microsoft does the trick. I can easily remote into my work machine from anywhere and make a quick programming change or check email, etc. It is just like I am sitting in front of my machine at work, minus the 22” wide-screen monitor! With the ability to remote into my work environment I haven’t even found a need to use Boot Camp to dual-boot.
If you are living in a PC world and want to make the switch to Mac at home I highly recommend that you do. I have had nothing but good experiences from my Macintosh exploits and I am just scratching the surface. If you have PC/Mac related stories, please share and feel free to comment. Thanks for reading!
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