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Tonight we are going to dedicate the show to those who may be listening and have not switched from MS Windows to the Mac, or from the PC to the Mac.

I'm going to cover 10 reasons why Apple wants you to switch and encourage all of you listening to play this show for your friends and family members that may be thinking about switching my have not done so yet.

I want all of you to chime in during the show and provide me with your Switcher stories and why you decided to go with a Mac

So I'm going to take a hint form Apple and use their list of why to switch to a Mac and then add my spin to each one.

1. It just works

• Your toaster doesn’t crash. Your kitchen sink doesn’t crash. Why should your computer? Think of the countless hours you would save if your PC worked on your time — not the other way around. Then think about a Mac.

• flawless integration of hardware and software. Only with a Mac do you get a system built by the same people who make the OS, the applications, and the computer itself.

• Built in USB. FireWire. Ethernet. Every new Mac offers built-in antennas for wireless networks, so getting on the Internet from anywhere is a mere matter of turning on your Mac. No reconfiguring your network settings. No plugging in some clunky wireless card.

• The real secret behind the Mac’s crash-resistant performance lies deep within the operating system itself. Beneath the surface of Mac OS X lies an industrial-strength UNIX foundation hard at work to ensure that your computing experience remains free of system crashes and compromised performance.

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2. You can Make Amazing Stuff
If you’ve ever wanted to make a movie, publish your own podcast, create gorgeous coffee-table books, produce a Hollywood-style DVD, state your views in a daily blog, make beautiful music, or any combination of the above, you’ve definitely come to the right place.

• iLife is A suite of great applications, iLife consists of iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD, GarageBand, iTunes, and iWeb. Every one’s a winner. And everyone can perform magic with them. What’s that, you say? On the PC, you can find any number of photo applications, music software, DVD authoring packages, jukebox programs, and web creation tools. And if you don’t like the wares of one developer, another one has a package with just as many features.

• seamless integration. That’s the telling difference between iLife and all the great pretenders out there. Independently superb, the iLife applications work together to let you create practically anything you can imagine.

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3. Everything Ready
Sometimes you have to make hard choices in life. This isn’t one of them. Because when you choose a Mac, you’re ready for just about anything: software, peripherals, even alternate operating systems.

• In addition to running the award-winning, super-powerful, super-easy Mac OS X, a new Mac gives you the option to run other operating systems, including Windows XP and the new Vista. All it takes is a licensed copy of the alternate OS and software like Parallels Desktop for Mac.

• the Mac can run more applications than any PC on the planet.

• Though the Mac stands alone in power and simplicity, it’s also the world’s most compatible computer.

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4. 114,000 and counting NOT on a Mac.

• By the end of 2005, there were 114,000 known viruses for PCs. In March 2006 alone, 850 new threats were detected against Windows. Zero for Mac. While no computer connected to the Internet will ever be 100% immune from attack, Mac OS X has helped the Mac keep its clean bill of health with a superior UNIX foundation and security features that go above and beyond the norm for PCs. When you get a Mac, only your enthusiasm is contagious.

• Connecting a PC to the Internet using factory settings is like leaving your front door wide open with your valuables out on the coffee table. A Mac, on the other hand, shuts and locks the door, hides the key, and stores your valuables in a safe with a combination known only to you. You have to buy, configure, and maintain such basic protection on a PC.

On a Windows PC, software (both good and evil) can change the system without your even knowing about it. In order for software to significantly modify Mac OS X, you have to type in your password. You’re the decider. You approve changes to your system.

People attempting to break into computers may disguise a malicious program as a picture, movie, or other seemingly harmless file. You might download such files from the web or get them via mail or chat. A PC just blindly downloads them without a peep. A Mac, however, will let you know that you may be getting a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The Mac web browser, Safari, can tell the difference between a file and a program, and alerts you whenever you’re downloading the latter.

• Mac gets much of this out-of-the-box protection from its open source UNIX heritage. The most critical components of Mac OS X are open for review by a worldwide community of security experts. Their input helps Apple continually make Mac OS X ever more secure. And it’s simple to update a Mac with the latest advances. By default, a Mac checks for updates weekly. For pure peace of mind, you can set a Mac to download security updates automatically. Apple digitally signs the updates, so you can be sure they come from a trusted source.

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5. Still the most advance Operating System

• After years of development, Microsoft’s Vista OS is finally here. How does it stack up against Mac OS X? The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg sums it up nicely:

• David Pogue, writing for the New York Times, puts it a bit more bluntly:

• the Mac computer has great features but they are not "in your face" and getting in your way.
• Spotlight, for example, is always there to help you find that elusive file hiding somewhere in your computer. It shows search results literally as you type — in emails, contacts, PDFs, images, calendars, and applications.

• Dashboard widgets are small, focused applications for accomplishing discrete tasks (like tracking deliveries, checking the weather, playing Sudoku, printing envelopes, and reviewing your stock portfolio).

• Unlike Vista, which comes in four distinct flavors at four distinct prices, each with its own distinct set of features (and each in 32- and 64-bit dialects), there’s only one Mac OS X. It runs on every Mac. With a full set of features. That’s just the way things are in the land of Mac — simple and straightforward.

But even as Vista falls short in features that have long been part of Mac OS X, it’s about to lag even farther behind. Because Mac OS X Leopard is right around the corner. And with it will come an even richer set of features to make using your Mac easier and more amazing.

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6. The latest Intel Chips

• Inside the new Macs are microprocessor that offers an entire collection of revolutions — shrunk into an unimaginably small space. It’s the Intel Core Duo, the most advanced Intel chip on the market today.

• With an Intel Core Duo, Intel Core 2 Duo, or Intel Xeon processor, plus other engineering leaps, your new Mac will do all those things that only Macs can do — and do so at astonishing performance levels. We’ve measured new Macs to be up to seven times faster than previous generations.1 And it’s not just theoretical performance. You’ll notice the speed for all the things you do: from enhancing the family photos to rendering special effects for a feature film, even launching programs and scrolling long web pages.

• As the Intel Core processor powers your Mac, it does so in a most extraordinary way: by consuming less energy. That’s due to the way the cores work together to share resources, and how they are designed to conserve power when their functions aren’t required. Because Intel Core processors perform so efficiently, new Macs can be both super-powerful and elegantly slim. Like the MacBook Pro, which is just one inch thin and as little as 5.6 pounds light.2 Or the iMac, which packs the entire computer and a huge widescreen display into a space previously reserved just for a monitor.

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7. No hunting for Drivers

• As the Intel Core processor powers your Mac, it does so in a most extraordinary way: by consuming less energy. That’s due to the way the cores work together to share resources, and how they are designed to conserve power when their functions aren’t required. Because Intel Core processors perform so efficiently, new Macs can be both super-powerful and elegantly slim. Like the MacBook Pro, which is just one inch thin and as little as 5.6 pounds light.2 Or the iMac, which packs the entire computer and a huge widescreen display into a space previously reserved just for a monitor.

• You shouldn’t have to waste your time trying to banish a nasty error message from your screen. You shouldn’t have to restart your computer simply because you connected a new printer. And you shouldn’t have to go off on a scavenger hunt, searching doggedly for device drivers, so that your computer can see and get along with that shiny new peripheral. You should simply be able to connect that camera, printer, gamepad, camcorder, or phone to your computer and use it. That’s certainly the experience you’ll enjoy on a Mac. Millions do now. And you can join them.

• On a Mac, a USB, FireWire, or Ethernet cable’s all you need. Plug one end into the device. Connect the other end to your Mac. And you’re good to go. You can have absolute confidence in your Mac because it comes prepared with all the drivers you’re likely to need for the peripheral devices one generally connects to computers. Thanks to Mac OS X, you don’t have to give it a moment’s thought.

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8. Designs that turn heads

• From its breathtaking industrial design to its elegant desktop icons to everything in between, a Mac delivers a computing experience to savor. And the more you get to know it, the more you’ll want to spend time with it. How many things can you say that about?

• Apple designers and engineers agonize over every millimeter of every new Macintosh model and every pixel of the user interface. The result: ergonomic products that are the toast of the design world. You can see obsession with detail wherever you look: the space-saving elegance of the all-in-one design of the iMac, the pint-sized perfection of the Mac mini, the anodized aluminum alloy enclosure of the MacBook Pro, even the elegantly simple Mighty Mouse.

• the desktop starts with a friendly background image welcomes you, and photo-realistic icons on the Dock and in the Finder beg to be clicked. Launch Dashboard and marvel at the colorful widgets — small applications that are as elegant as they are functional. Start a multiperson video conference using iChat1 and a built-in iSight camera and see an astonishing three-dimensional view of all participants. Enjoy pristine video quality in QuickTime movies.

• Eye candy YES me want me want.

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9. Amazing Podcasts

• You’ve practiced your radio voice enough. Time to set up the recording studio. With a Mac, that’s as easy as opening GarageBand in iLife. With a PC, well, keep practicing your radio voice.

• Recording your very own podcast on a PC may seem the stuff of dreams. After all, just getting started requires downloading the right recording software, buying a professional microphone, and compressing the audio yourself. By the time you do all that, you may be left speechless. With a Mac, you can go from zero to “on the air” in minutes.

• Talk about iMic and how easy it is to plug in Mic and headphones
• Use Garage band , talk about this.

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10. Macs are Awesome Out of the Box

• Sure, a new PC comes with software. It’s just not software you’d ever want to use. A new Mac, on the other hand, comes with lots of really great stuff. So you can make lots of really great stuff.

• Unpack your new PC and you’ll be amazed at what it offers. Even the opening of the box becomes and experience, the welcome sequence is enought to get you excited.

• Bring home a new Mac and you bring home an OS with more than 200 built-in features — including Dashboard widgets, Mail, and iChat AV, among other cool things — and the award-winning suite of iLife applications.

• So forget the fine print. With a Mac, fun is not sold separately.

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SHOW ENDING:
Well I want to thank all of you for participating tonight and for letting us all know why you made the switch just like I did.

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For now this is your Host Victor Cajiao saying, enjoy the rest of your Sunday