I just had to update my virus protection and that means that my beloved iMac is now one year old.  In fact, I ordered it January 15, 2013 and it arrived a week later.  I have to say that I have never once regretted ditching Windows.  I purchased Parallels and Windows 7 to run on the iMac, so that I could have compatibility with some older programs, but I haven’t run them in months.  Everything important has a Mac version that I like better than the windows version, including the educational software that I use at school.  I still use Microsoft Office (Mac Version), Word for writing and Excel for keeping track of book sales, but that’s about it as far as MS products go.

My first Apple product was the iPad.  Magical.  After two years, I replaced it with an iPad 3 and passed the old one to my daughter who uses it every hour.  Then I got an iPhone 4S, which my wife is still using.  I replaced it with a 5S two month ago and it’s as awesome as they say on TV.  I guess I’ll eventually get a new iMac, because I’m a techie and I like new stuff (this is about my 15th desktop computer), but it won’t be for a while, because she is humming along like no tomorrow.

I used to laugh at people who bought Apple products because they are so expensive compared to the competition.  Now that I’ve been using them, I feel like I really got what I paid for.  I just got a new Windows desktop and laptop at work and it feels like I might as well be using a clay tablet and wooden stylus to carve cuneiform.  They’re just awful.  Sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t.  The battery life on the laptop is about 11 minutes.  Bear in mind that these are in schools and schools always get the crappiest stuff, so I’m sure there are better Windows products out there.

Anyway, happy birthday to my iMac.  I think I’ll go online and buy it something pretty.