At the very beginning, around the year of 2000, Mac was unheard of for me. It's simply beyond my world.
Then in 2005 or so, I watched a short video episode of Technology Review which was a piece of talk by its then editor-in-chief, a British gentleman. And the episode was named "Beautiful machine". By that, he meant Mac computer. But I didn't take that message seriously.
By about 2006, I heard, on and off, some people prefer Mac much than Windows, but my impression was that it seemed that those guys use Mac computers to edit images and videos. And Mac is significantly more expensive than Windows machines. Well, that's not my thing, I thought.
After then, it's the history everyone knows. With the help of the spectacular successes of iPod and iPhone, Mac computers have been keeping significantly gaining market share, especially among young generations.
So far, I've been satisfied with Windows 7. But one thing that I always don't like about Windows is its native lousy command-line interface, DOS. It is horrifically unlike UNIX command-line, which I'm fond of. I've been using Cygwin, but all in all, it's not the real thing and it's a great pain to update it. On the other hand, it's said that the command-line interface on Mac is somewhat like *nix, which is a blessing.
Anyways, I've locked myself into a choice between Windows and Mac. That might be wrong. Maybe I should just get a Linux OS and start to utilize it. And then after that, consider to install dual OSes and choose either Windows or Mac as my second OS.
