I have been a “Windows Fanboy” since the Windows 3.1 days and before that, I was all about DOS. I’ve been a Windows programmer since Visual Basic 1.0 and I’ve invested over a decade learning how Microsoft operating systems work intimately. Switching to another platform was not something that I took lightly – or ever thought would happen.

I’ve given Vista a fair chance. I’ve embraced it 100%. I really wanted it to work for me. I jumped through all of the hoops that I shouldn’t have had to just to be disappointed by yet another bug or incompatibility.

Last week, I got a 2.1Ghz dual core Macbook Pro with 3gigs of RAM. This is roughly the same speed and capacity as the HP laptop that I have Vista Ultimate running on. One week later and I’m asking myself how I could have been so stupid by using Microsoft’s operating systems all of these years.

Everything on my MacBook runs at least twice the speed as the similar program on my HP. Windows just SNAP open quickly and there’s no lag switching between programs. The animations are very smooth and don’t seem to tax the system at all. Why can Apple pull this off while the clowns at Microsoft can’t animate an icon without pegging the CPU?

So, I’ve officially switched. I keep VMWare Fusion with an XP Pro on the MacBook just in case I need to run something in Windows but those are getting less and less as I find more quality apps that run natively in OS X.

I’ve heard our VNCScan customers asking for a MAC version for years. It looks like that’s going to happen soon.