Tech Refresh

It's been 15 months since my last post.  I've been busy and much has changed in the tech landscape.  I've become a fully fledged Apple user, and can definitely say that the iPhone through it's 4 iterations has been the trigger for that change.

Right now I'm using;

iPhone 4 32Gb (2010) 

BlackBerry 9700 (2009)

iPad 3G 64Gb (2010)

Apple MacBook Pro 13" Core 2 Duo 4GB RAM 260GB HDD (2009)

HP Envy 14" Core i5 4GB RAM 500GB HDD (2010)

Apple iMac 27" Core i5 4GB RAM 1TB HDD (2010)

THe HP Envy is the most recent addition.  My previous HP Pavilion laptop was 3 years old and needed to be updated.  I've upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate from Windows 7 Home Premium, mainly for the Windows Domain capability, but I also wanted to retain Windows Media Center features.

I have to say it's been a massive improvement over Vista.  Speed of the hardware, and the general improvements in the HP hardware make this a really great machine.

However, I wouldn't swap my iMac for anything.  I've been working with Apple hardware and OSX in business environments since 2007 and it took a while for me to really see the business benefits in using this platform.  I think the greatest thing I've learned is that you can be technically productive no matter what IT platform you use.  The fundamental applications work the same way, and the ease of which I switch between Microsoft and Apple operating systems says much about the design for users.  There's no doubt about it, they are to different way to do the same thing, and I think business users and consumers realise it's now about the applications and less about the hardware and the operating system.