What’s a great operating system without amazing applications? Well, the answer is obvious, but, thankfully, Mac OS X has no shortages in that regard. Time and time again, I end up downloading a new application that just blows my mind. Not only are there so many great applications, but they are all quality applications as well. I wanted to take this time to share with you all some of my favorites.

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An 8 MHz processor, 128 KB DRAM, 400 kB floppy disk drive, and 9-inch 512 x 342 monochromatic pixel display rounded out the Macintosh 128K. It was the first of its kind, and, as such, it was the first computer to feature a graphical-user-interface and mouse. All of this could have been yours for $2,495 in 1984. Well, we have all come a long way since then.

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Crowds were cheering at today’s “Stevenote” during the 2008 Worldwide Developers Conference. The event has revealed many truths to rumors that have been surfacing for weeks now. Steve Jobs gave quite the show, and there was even a performance of “It’s a Small World” before the most significant announcements. Not too many surprises, but still an impressive showing.

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I’ve been using my MacBook for nearly three months now, and, overall, it has been a great experience.  However, there is something horribly wrong when you put Mozilla Firefox 3 RC2 and Mac OS 10.5.3 together.  To put it simply, the combination of Mozilla products and Mac OS X is wrecking havoc on my recently purchased MacBook.

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I have recently installed a nifty application called Desktoptopia, and I am fairly impressed with the usefulness and quality this application provides.  It used to be a pay-for application, but now it is free.  Desktoptopia essentially gives you the ability to subscribe to pictorial feeds, and with this ability, you can keep your desktop fresh with new and changing content.

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Yes, yes, I am crossing over to the dark side!  Muahahahahaha chokes. Ah, but yes, I am going to be purchasing a MacBook soon.  Long have I been stuck in a Windows world where stuff breaking is the norm.

I’m tired of the driver errors, the blue screens of death, the security flaws, the Microsoft genuine advantage, and the feeling of always being second class with the evil Windows machines.  I’d love to run Linux to avoid the pain, but even my computer’s hardware doesn’t want to play nice.  It just feels like being stuck behind a bubble that will not burst!

No more I say!  I am finished with this wretched operating system that has given me nightmares of nuclear destruction due to a critical system error!  No more I say!  I am through with being under Microsoft’s control!  No more!

In a few short weeks, I will be celebrating my MacBook, and sure it will be somewhat of a struggle to break my years as a Windows user.  It will not be easy, and there might be some frustrations along the way. However, once the dust clears and the screen shines, my perspective on computing will be forever changed.

All this for a mere $1399.  Yeah, it is expensive—well okay, it is very expensive, but if I’m going to pay $999 for a MacBook, I might as well toss in $400 more and get the whole nine yards.  With that in mind, it will be one of my most expensive investments ever.  Until that time, unfortunately, I am stuck looking through only a window.