Switcher Diary: Peggy Milne

Peggy Milne isn’t a total switcher, because her job with a sales rep company requires her to use a Windows PC just like everyone else. And sometimes no matter that you can prove a Mac would be fine for your job, convincing the bosses may not even be worth the effort. But at home, Peg and her children are solidly in the Mac camp, as I found out during our interview.

Peggy: There were so many times that the system just crashed for no reason. Networking was such a hassle, and things seemed like they were changing overnight. One day the computer would work fine, and the next day, all my settings were wrong and I couldn’t even access the Internet. I honestly could not explain why things kept happening to the computer; ...

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