"Switching"?

Seems like a lot of you guys are switching to a Mac Pro from your PC, which as someone who's always used Macs is very cool to see. I think Apple has a winner in the Mac Pro.
Out of curiosity, if you do consider yourself a switcher, are you planning on using Mac OS X as your primary OS? Are you going to use Windows as a secondary OS or primarily Windows with some Mac OS X use on the side?
Mac Pro 2.66 soon   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

I'm a 'switcher' but it wasn't from Windows. In fact I never owned a copy of Windows and was a diehard OS/2 advocate for many years. If you wrote to "The OS/2 Guy" at IBM, IBM forwarded the messages on to me and at one time I ran the largest OS/2 subscription web site on the 'Net (Warp City).
I was despised by the Microsoft crowd who spent years invading the OS/2 newsgroups and attacking me and the OS/2 operating system. At times I found my personal life disrupted by fanatical stalkers, physical threats, and non-stop harassment. They went after my associates, my employees, anyone who provided articles at my web site or even came to my support publicly.
But that's not why I switched. I did so because IBM finally dropped support for OS/2 on January 1, 2006, and that meant there would be no new drivers, updates, upgrades, enhancements, applications, etc. Imagine if Apple announced tomorrow that they would no longer sell OSX! I spent thousands of dollars on custom made machines with hardware that was proven to support OS/2. Before selling off the ThinkPad division to Lenovo, IBM returned to providing support for OS/2 on their newest ThinkPads. This extended my OS/2 life but it was evident a move had to be made. I bought three of them fully loaded with as much hardware as I could get but I wasn't happy because I kept falling farther behind the rest of the computing world.
I had two alternatives: Linux or OSX
OSX is so akin to OS/2 that the transition was easy to handle and learn. And Mac users who ventured into the OS/2 community were usually cordial and informative. I struck up a conversation with a former OS/2 (college) buddy I had lost contact with (career paths changed). "Once I bought a Mac I never looked back at OS/2 and I fell in love with computing again," he said.
I bought the Intel iMac within the first 17 minutes of its announcement and once I used it my friend was right. I fell in love all over again with an operating system and a company that offered me advanced hardware and beautiful machines. Soon I replaced my office computers with iMacs and within moments of the MacBook announcement I had my order in.
Now I await the arrival of a Mac Pro. I spent big bucks. The 30" Cinema HD monitor arrived today and the MP is scheduled for delivery on Sept. 26th because I loaded it up with as much hardware I could.
I know I made the best possible choice and thank the heavens above for saving me from having to deal with Microsoft.
That's why I switched and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Tim...
20" iMac 2GRam/500G-HD, 13" BlackBook 2GRam/120G-HD, Black Video iPod 60Gig   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   HPColorLaserJet 2500 Printer, LaCie 600Gig External & LaCie DVDRW/CDRW Drives

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