Making the Mac Plunge

[jbischke]

Hey all. I'm contemplating a very big change in 2007...ridding Microsoft from my life. I have nothing against MS (and personally think Bill Gates might be the most heroic man on the planet) but I'm getting tired of bloated software and the continuing performance degradation I'm getting from my PC. I'm contemplating making the switch to a MacBook Pro and eliminating Office and IE from my life. With Google docs, GMail and Firefox, this doesn't seem all that difficult.

I'd love to hear from anyone who has made this switch recently and how it went. I'm pretty nervous about dropping Outlook most of all because I tend to be a pack-rat and have all my old e-mails archived, etc. I'm also concerned about the lack of offline capabilities as I like to use my offline time (e.g., on a plane) to catch up on e-mail.

If anyone has any suggestions or thoughts on this I'd love to hear them. I'm not quite ready to make the move yet but at this point with a little prodding I just might be.