Moving to Apple.

My Core i7 PC would be my last working primary PC based computer I would be using, don't get me wrong, I will still be building PC but most likely as a secondary computer, most likely on a longer timescale (most likely once every 2-3 years), out of cheap AMD parts from now on. The next primary machine would be Mac Pro, proably Xeon based machine.

So why the move? One word: Experience. Apple just provide a more well-rounded experience on their platform, the OS is written for the hardware, the hardware is meant for the software, in this way, you get performance for the same hardware compared to a (N-1T-1) machine. I sometimes even forget my Macbook just contains a small 2GHz core2 processor, even so it becomes my first machine that I ever own that I have nothing to rant about since purchase!!!

In operation, the UI suits me perfectly, colour scheme is rendered properly (unlike some OS I come across, even to their 7th edition liao still cannot render their colour scheme properly), an intuitive approach to desktop icons in the form of  dock, application list, etc. Good ideas like Spaces/Expose to manage opened applications, etc.

Even removing programs is as simple as dragging the program into the trash can (no more uninstall dialogs, no more useless pointless "are you sure?", "are you for sure?", "are you confirmed for sure" "YES, I'M F**KING CONFIRMED CHOPPED GUARANTEE SURE, WHY THE H*LL DO YOU THINK I CLICK UNINSTALL FOR!")

Design. Maybe I am currently in the HCI field (Human-Computer Interaction), design becomes one thing I look for. Apple seems to get it, however, for some other OS, as I said, it is their 7th edition already, they still don't seems to get it.

Lastly, Games. Mac uses Intel x86/64, not a problem anymore with boot camp.

Of course, I'm not a total Mac fanboy yet, I still have gripe on Mac too: The single vendor lockin, software development, Upgrading is abit of headache, even on a Mac Pro, you can't change the motherboard, etc. The reasons are getting less obvious now as my upgrading timescale is not as frequent as before, as I gradually shift my computer needs from gaming to productivity. So who knows what the future holds.