The "switch" has happened and I don't mean the roommate kind.

It happened yesterday. Every Macintosh computer owner on the planet has been waiting for it. And if you PC owners out there weren't paying attention, you should have been waiting for it too.

Apple made the switch to Intel processors yesterday. The first computers to switch were the Powerbooks, now called MacBook Pro's, and the computer that turned it all around for Apple, the iMac. The switch to Intel chips for the MacBook increased its performance over 400 percent over the old G4 Powerbooks. Yeah, that's 400 percent. The iMac speed only doubled because it was plenty fast anyway, but now it is using Intel's Core Duo chip which basically has two processors on one piece of silicon.

Unfortunately, the Mac mini's haven't been upgraded yet, but the iMac was probably going to be the toughest one anyway since it's an all-in-one computer.

Apple also updated iLife and iWork as well. ILife is absolutely awesome. The top two reasons to switch from Windows to a Mac is OS X followed by iLife. ILife, like the slogan says, is like Microsoft Office for the rest of your life. Or at least the creative part of your life.

Everything that you wish you could do with a computer iLife does(i.e. make movies, make music, manage your photos, create cool DVDs) and does it in a way that anyone can figure out the programs.

I haven't had a chance to get iWork yet. I've been waiting for them to ugrade it a little more, but it appears to be the beginnings of Apple's version of Microsoft Office. With the exception of it only costs $80 as opposed to almost $500 or more depending on what kind of Office setup you get. Anyway, right now it only had two programs called Pages and Keynote. Keynote is like Powerpoint on steroids and Pages is a word processing program.

Sooner or later I'll shell out the $80 for it and I'll be happy I did I'm sure.

I try and tell people all the time that they need to switch to a Mac and all they really seem to do is kind of nod their head. I also don't recommend it to people who are neck deep into Windows because they would have to change their lives to accomodate the switch. It would be a worth while change, but I don't want to accept that responsibility. However, most people know if they would be able to switch and whether you can or you can't, you are still missing out. If you can switch, do it. If you can't, I would suggest working toward being able to switch later.

That's not to say that you can't get some hardcore work done, but most people I know aren't power users and Windows really takes all of the fun out the little things they like doing that make them happy. And just stop and think about how much time you devote to Windows crashing and fixing problems or just randomly having problems. Just knowing they won't have to worry about viruses is enough for most of my family and friends to switch.

Most people don't consider it because they fear change and they know how crazy Windows can get and they think that every computer is like that.

Well, Macs aren't because I haven't worked on a computer in two years and that's because all of my PCs have crapped out.