Tried MacBook Pro, going back to Windows/Dell

the allure of the sleek macbook pro was haunting.  All our Devs at Kashless have them. They are the “cool” hardware.  I want to be with the cool cats.  I even got a Kindle recently.  So sunday I decided to take the office extra MacBook Pro and live with it for two days.  Took it on a trip to Arizona.  I hated it. And am going back to windows.  While most of the issues I had are solvable over time, I don’t see the upside payoff for the brain damage.  Brain damage included:

1.  no office.  I of course could pay AGAIN.  but the Open Office didn’t work well for me and I had already paid for OFfice on windows.

2.   I actually like Outlook. on the Mac the Mail app is separate from the iCal. You can’t sync with google calendar without making your calendar public (or paying for another service).  The contacts didn’t sync directly with google, only Yahoo, exchange and Mobile ME (yet another fee). 

3.  Google talk didn’t work correctly.

4.  I hate the one click mouse.  too many years of two clicks.  And my external Microsoft wireless mouse required extra drivers.

5.  Verizon software for wireless data modem didn’t work well.

6.  Not having the same folder structure was a pain. Having to figure out things I am used to doing like “Send via mail” from explorer you can’t do in Finder. You have to drag the item to the desktop then drag it back into another application.  Not worse, just different and a pain to learn with no discernable upside.

I am done with mac laptops.