A Mac has invaded my house!
UPS stopped by a couple of days ago with a box. It turns out that my wife had ordered a Mac Mini computer, unbeknownst to me. Until now, our home has been a Mac-free zone, but there it is. So, since she's busy with deadlines just now, I set the thing up on the dining room table so she can play with it and decide whether or not she wants to switch over to it for her primary PC.
I did have to run out and pick up a new monitor, because none of the spare ones in our house have an HDMI input. No biggie, though. I found a nice Lenova model at Best Buy for under $100. Since the claims were that the thing could use pretty much any keyboard and mouse, I plugged a cheapo Windows keyboard and mouse into a couple of the USB ports.
I hit the power switch on the Mac Mini and there it was: The Dreaded Apple Logo. During setup, I had to press a couple of keys on the keyboard so the OS could identify what sort of device it might be. "Aha!"...the disembodied voice said, more or less. The PC mouse, though, worked fine from the start. Setup was easy. It immediately found all of the wifi connections available. I had to get my wife's Apple ID from her Rolodex (she still has one of those things). If it goes on her desk, eventually, I'll plug in the Ethernet cable, for somewhat faster performance online.
Dead simple, really, and much faster to setup than my recent Windows 10 PC purchase. No lengthy OS update or anything of the sort. I fired up Safari and downloaded Office 365 on my wife's account. That appeared to work fine, as well. I downloaded Chrome and synced it with her account.
Job done. It's a cute little box. Looks like an over-sized CD-ROM player from the old days. Doesn't take up any space, really.
Then, I took off my hazardous materials protective gear and went back to my own desk.
Note: I have sworn never to touch the thing again, though. I do not want to be contaminated with Apple Cooties. 
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The funny thing is that I don't really care anymore. One box is the same as the other one, as far as I'm concerned, most of the time.
However, I'm used to working on the underside of Windows, so I'll stick to it. But, I don't really care what kind of PC I'm using, really. They're all fairly transparent if you've been screwing around with them for 30+ years.
As the song goes, "It don't matter to me..."
I have a love/hate relationship with MACs. Have been using them off and on since they hit the market in the last century. I don't know just what it is about them but I despise having to use them, I hate the mouse unit and the keypads, I hate their language (copyrighted terminology for commands, etc) and I hate they way they are "set up"... but sometimes people hire me to do work for them and it often turns out that they have a damned iMac or Apple flavored laptop. I have to deal with a certain level of brain damage to get the job done.
I've watched this technology from the very beginning. I took a FORTRAN class way back in 1963, and have been involved in computers ever since. In just a few decades, we've finally reached the point where they are just featureless boxes that simply work to let you do pretty much whatever you want to do.
From IBM punch cards to little computers you carry around with you that are way, way more powerful than the IBM 1620 I cut my teeth on. And you don't really need to know anything about how they work. You just use them. They don't even come with owner's manuals any longer. Plug the stuff in and turn them on and get started with whatever it was you wanted to do.
They're finally technology that works invisibly. They all work the same now. Just touch what you want, one way or another, and do what you want to do. Or, you could ask Siri. She knows what to do, and will tell you if you ask just right.
"Siri! Where's the nearest Starbucks!" Siri knows every damned thing worth knowing. 
Just freaking amazing!
Magic boxes, indeed!
calling them that for years 
"...If you want to know..."
Before, I didn't, but I guess now I gotta want to...
I do have to admit though it's finely crafted piece of machinery. It jut feels good and looks nifty.
... but my son who's now in his 40s, has sworn by Macs ever since his college days.
He didn't get the love for Apple from me, but anyway.
I've worked in the printing industry for my whole career, and there's a definite dichotomy in printing. All the graphics people work on Macs, all the business people (and their customers) work on Windows-system computers.
To each his own, I guess.
which is awesome. Wait, wait, wait.
I used to be a Windows hater, but was forced to the Windows world and it's alright. I liked W7, and W10 is alright.
I am so looking forward to going back to the Mac though, but won't unless they release a new Mini soon or a special new iMac.
My last Mac was a 24" iMac but Magic Jack crashed it and that horrific crash fried the motherboard. 
One of the funniest things that happened when I switched from PC to Mac:
I was trying to import a file into another program. I tried everything I could...file...no import or export. I tried opening the bare file "with" the app. After about an hour of trying over two days, I did some research online.
"To import a file, drag and drop it into the workspace."
Oh.
