I was at a Best Buy store today, waiting for my friend Doug to show up, and I walked by a mini Apple in-store kiosk, where they had a 24″ iMac. Those things are absolutely gorgeous. I’ve been wishfully thinking about making my next desktop computer an iMac, Why? Have you seen the darn things?
However, it turns out that not everyone is finding the transition from a Windows world to the Apple way of life all that easy. See the recent travails of C|Net journalist Rafe Needleman’s article “Switcher’s lament: The case against Mac.” It doesn’t all sound like a world of gingerbread houses, chocolate streets, and candy cane lightposts.