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I haven’t used a Mac in over 10 years. In 1996 I ditched my Power Mac in favor of Solaris for development and Microsoft Windows for office apps. Now I find myself coming full circle after purchasing a MacBook Pro last weekend. Over the last couple of years I’ve seen more and more of my colleagues in the web community using Macs.

Now I’m using my Thinkpad T42 along side my new MacBook Pro. It is unlikely I’ll fully switch to the Mac in the near future due to lack of support for some applications I need at work. However, I did install Parallels which lets me run Windows on the Mac. So far so good and you don’t have to reboot to get into Windows like you do with Boot Camp. Parallels is very similar to VMWare or Microsoft Virtual PC on Windows.

As my Mac journey progresses, I’ll post updates on how I’m doing. There are some things I already like a lot better and there are some things that are really annoying. The learning curve is pretty steep to become as proficient with Mac OS X as I am with UNIX and Windows. I can do the basic stuff, but I still have to look up how to do simple tasks (such as doing a screen capture).