Posting here because I don't want to create an account on your blog (just a personal preference, don't take it personally
) but regarding your latest entry about wanting to get your wife a Mac, I went through the same thing.
Six months after I switched with a Mac Mini I went with my wife to the Apple store to pick up one for her. How did I do it?
Patience. Over the course of those six months, she observed that while she was having all kinds of issues with the XP desktop I built for her while my computing experience at home was completely stress-free. So when I proposed the idea to switch her over with a new computer naturally the first question was 'how do we afford that?' So I reasoned that Apple probably had some sort of financing option where we could pay it off over time, and sure enough there was. One new credit card later there was a $700 dent in it, and I was setting up her new Mini and hauling the jet-engine loud old desktop away.
I showed her a few things, put Photoshop on it, then stepped back and waited for the inevitable questions to pop up.
....and waited.
...and waited.
Finally two weeks later, thinking she hadn't been using it out of frustration (I spend most of my time in a different room; it just works out that way) I asked her how it was going with her new Mac. She responded with "Oh, it's been wonderful! It's so intuitive and I've been getting a whole lot done with my artwork. I'll never give any money to that Gates guy now ever again!"
Was a no brainer six months after that to convince her to buy her own Macbook after I got mine. The way she stroked it once I brought it home was...giving me a complex (which I got over) because she would now be able to do stuff anywhere she wanted, not just on a desk. I got her the black one (because she likes things in black) and she uses it all over the place along with taking it with her a lot of places we go. She got a real expensive messenger bag to tote it around, and I don't think she could be more thrilled about a computer.
My "old" Mini went to my parents to switch them over (which they haven't yet, due time) with a Mac compatible webcam so I could video iChat with them rather than rack up long distance charges, and her "old" Mini is now our media center hooked up to our HDTV.
Okay, back to your blog to read the comments over there. Should be entertaining. ;D
