Are you a Windows user?
It seems like most Tumblr users are Mac people. But there must be some PC/Windows Tumblrs out there. If you are a Windows user, can you explain why in a reblog?
If you are a former Windows user, like me, you can still participate. Just reblog why you used a PC before you switched.
In my case, I thought PCs were the real deal, while Macs were slow and for posers. Two years ago, the most serious computer users at my company (Kunal and Andrew) were like, Yeah, Macs are so much better. Reluctantly, I tried one and immediately fell in love. I soon enjoyed being a computer user without needing to be a computer expert anymore.
I’m a former (but I cheat on my Mac at work all the time) Windows user. I used Windows for pretty much the same reason I think everyone else starts out on Windows, it seems like the logical thing to do because it is the norm.
I switched because I bought a first gen iPod. Why I bought such an expensive toy, I can’t quite recall, but it was cool. I took my iPod everywhere and it supplied the soundtrack to my last year of high school, I listened to it when I rollerbladed home by the canal in downtown Ottawa from my pseudo-employment at the neighbourhood epicerie.
To this day, some Le Tigre songs remind me of walking certain streets, past snow-covered hydrants at Christmas on my way to the United Way volunteer gig my parents hooked me up with during my gap year.
I was still using my IBM Thinkpad 600E (with a whopping 6 gig HD) to update my iPod using emulator software but it was inconvenient, and time-consuming. I planted the seed that what I really wanted for a graduation gift was a new iBook (but the candy-coloured ones struck me as being kind of garish). The ibook never materialised, but I did end going to Russia and Finland for three weeks that summer before I headed off to the first of three universities (but that’s a story for another time).
I dropped out of McMaster within a month of starting my studies (9/11, stress, not knowing what I wanted, and all that jazz) and arrived home to my father’s house to decompress. I didn’t tell my mom that I had dropped out because we were in the midst of our 7 Year War. I resolved to spend my gap year living alone (and eventually with roommates who worked at RIM) across the Rideau Canal from my father, conveniently finding a 3BR across the street from my favourite childhood museum and around the corner from a gym.
My dad helped me move my stuff and presented me with a gleaming white computer as a housewarming gift that I still have and use to this day.
I’m on the verge of an upgrade but now I’m wrestling between the MacBook and the MacAir (because I don’t really use my optical drive that much - that’s what 6 years of not having a DVD/CD-R drive will do to you).
