It usually takes about two month's of use until "you get it." You see, you have been trained in a counter productive workstyle on Microsoft Windows that seems normal only because you know nothing else.

One day, you will be humming along on a Mac and it will click. Using a computer will stop being a pain; you will actually start having fun. You will stop being afraid to experiment with something new on the Mac.

But, going back to that Dell is hard.

Why does Apple allow the Windows OS on their machines? Seduction. You may have plans to run an all Windows computer, but you will try one of the free Mac applications and it will work much better. You will spend less and less time booting into Windows, until, you only got there when forced to.

Mac sales have been growing at a 30+% per year when the world wide computer market is almost flat. About half of that growth is to former Windows users.