I noticed the B.L. Ochman finally switched to a Mac, just like Shel did some time ago, though his experience was less than rosy.

Personally, I've been in the PowerBook for a year now and can't see going back to a PC. Sure, there are Mac quirks, but by and large the productivity of the Mac and the tools it provides are second to none.

A few things of note after a year:

Spotlight: Mac's search feature is quick - very quick. It finds almost everything and it saves me at least 1/2 hour each day searching for documents & other crap

Entourage: Microsoft's less than ideal mail program. Funny, the only stuff that's crap on this thing and that crashes weekly are the Microsoft programs. Entourage is likely one of the worst mail programs, but it offered more of the features that I wanted than the mail product that came w/ the Mac. It too crashes often, but I'd use it again if I had to do over again. For some reason, and maybe it's just my Mac, this thing can't forward and HTML email to save its life. The formatting gets messed up every time.

OmniOutliner: My life lives in OmniOutliner. Rolling to do lists, presentation outlines, checklists for projects...everything good starts in OmniOutliner.

PowerPoint: Compatibility breaks down often in PPT. If the receiving PC doesn't have the right fonts, everything goes to hell... No, I don't use keynote and no one else I know does either.

It's just faster: Everything I do on the mac seems to be faster, and once you get used to navigating, it's faster still!