Bootcamp Eases the Migration

I'm taking the plunge and going fully Mac-native, and I have to say, boot camp is really helping make the transition doable - I wonder if this was part of the strategy in the first place?

I like the hardware. It looks nice, feels nice, and you're assured of a fairly good build quality. I like the robustness of the platform, and the no-brainer compatibility (anything apple just works with anything apple in my experience), although the significantly smaller software library is a drawback, albeit a steadily reducing one.

I'm not new to Macs, I've pretty much always had a PC, a Mac, and an experimental-frankenstein-exotic-flavors-of-Linux machine (usually my current PC minus 1) concurrently. I've just never actually done anything of much significance with the Mac - it's been pretty much iTunes and web browsing territory for me.

Now that I've decided to switch my use of Mac and Windows so that I'm using the apple as a primary machine, I have to work out how I'm going to be able to do any work. My problem isn't knowing my way around OSX, it's all the little applications, tools and utilities for the things I do every day that's the issue. The best way to get to grips with something is to do it, but sometimes the stuff I have to do won't wait until I find out what the Mac version of EA or Visio is, or feel my way around a new IDE. In these circumstances, is really handy to have the backup of being able to reboot into Windows, get the urgent task done in the familiar environment, and then go back to Mac - without lugging 2 notebooks around. For example, this post was brought to you by MarsEdit, and I was formerly a Windows Live Writer man...

Actually, an 'equivalency' site would be an awesome idea - something like a "this on Mac is like that on Windows" to make it easier for more people to make the switch. If anyone knows of such a thing out there, drop me a link.