App Pick: It's about time to learn the switch to Mac (1.0)★

Straight from the 'It's about time products' company, comes an all-singing, all-dancing new Mac switcher guide.

I've always pushed for more and more switching guides, tips and just anything that will make a new user's or even accomplished quicksilver-toting veteran's lives easier. It's actually why I started the good old MacTake, the more help there is out there, the easier it will be for everyone.

Switch to Mac features a tastefully designed and intuitive gui, and covers the essential basics of OSX. If I had access to this app when I made the switch, I would've found the whole task a lot less daunting. The way that Switch to Mac helps you to analyze your previous Windows habits and learn the more logical* Mac approach. You'll find split screen video presentations of both Windows and Macintosh systems in there, as well as a fairly new and intuitive presentation structure; users can simply click a link to the task that they'd like to perform & learn about, rather than sit through the whole thing learning the rigid basics.

However, I'm a little less pleased at the price tag. It's $29.95, not exactly on the cheap side for something that I could only see someone using a couple of times.

In a way the program has disadvantaged itself; because the content is so memorable and well-explained, I don't see users having much of a need to refer back to it at all.

This might be a good choice for a new switcher, picking it up with a new Mac for an additional $30, but I feel that the price tag, however well justified might keep the rest of us away from it for a while.

The better news is that there must be quite a switcher market out there, expect to see more products like this soon.

You can check Switch to Mac out by clicking here.

* (sometimes more logical for those of us who harbor that cynical dark-side - me included)

Happy Mac'ing!

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★ 0 Comments. | By Skippy, Sunday, April 29, 2007 1:38 PM | Links to this post

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