Yet another reason I love my Mac

So i decided i wanted to catch up on some of my housecleaning duties today; found some old DV home movies of past Christmases and vacations and the like. Huh... wonder if those trite apple ads about "just make a movie, it's so easy" are really accurate.

I dont have a powerhouse Mac.  I've got an iMac, a nice one, but still not a video-editing behemoth Mac with 16 gigs of RAM or anything, just an off-the shelf model with no video editing software besides what came with it (iMovie).

So i plugged in my 6 year old Sony handycam which oddly had a firewire port back then.  iMovie pops up, asks me what i want to call my project.  In less than 15 seconds i'm editing tape and inserting titles for chapters without even having to THINK.  i think that's what's great about macs... you dont have to say "where would i find this"... it all just kind of works.

So i'm importing an huge movie file and i noticed how unbelievably fast it was converting the movie... really fast.  So i decided to run a little test.  Let's see what my dinky little off-the-shelf iMac can do. 

As i type this, i'm making a backup of my important files to an external drive (100 gigs), posting a blog entry, converting a video, playing iTunes, and just for fun, creating a powerpoint, browsing the web, and watching a quicktime movie.  It's just as responsive right now as it is sitting idle--- which means it's about 100 times more responsive than any PC under any circumstances.  a little tool i have called iStat is telling me my iMac is kinda busy, but not really--- 73% of resources are free and i honestly just cant think what other applications to open to test it further.

I love... LOVE my mac. 

What does this have to do with a blog about B-school?  yeah, not too much... but maybe i can convince some of the incoming students they dont have to settle for the dark and uninspiring world of the PC--- take that money you'd spend on a thinkpad and buy yourself a Mac.  i promise you it'll be the best purchase you'll make.

Comments

[Sam]

That's what made me switch back.

[Sharran Srivatsaa]

Roger that.