Great article. Thank you. Some excellent points made. I too suffer from this 'unfinished book hoarder' syndrome. My kindle app has about 150 impulse buys which taunt me each time I attempt to read.

They way I see it a Mac does afford me the best of both worlds. Parallels allows me to run Windows and MacOSX simultaneously without having to reboot which is just dandy. So for the rare occasions when I need access to a windows system I just switch

OK so it's been about 24 hours since I saw the keynote and I'm feeling a bit more optimistic. I posted this article on my blog a couple of hours ago. I know the title is absurdly long but I couldn't resist the play on words ;-) : Here's the post with the title in all it's glory :-)

24 hours after having watched the keynote on iOS7 I'm feeling decidedly optimistic about the depth of functionality to come. I've moved past the initial Windows look alike trauma and have arrived at a an optimistic outlook.

P.S. Here are my thoughts on iOS7 24 and Apple in general hours after the messages have sunk in

Thanks for your comments Steve. Glad to see that you're enjoying the Mac environment.

I use Dropbox all the time but haven't used Google Drive. How do you find it compared to DropBox?

There are a lot of productivity apps out there which range widely in price. Some of the more expensive ones are definitely worth the investment but it requires a certain amount of time committment in addition to the cost

Good to know that Windows 8 isn't as much of a disaster when it comes to ongoing user experience.

Yes the keyboard shortcut thing can be pretty frustrating.

Thanks for the recommendation Adam.

Until about two years ago I only ever had PCs at home. 3 in fact.

Wow ... that's cool ... will look up "child's pose" on google to understand how to do this.

Love the logo at the top of this article. Really cool!

I've had this happen about 3-4 times in my career and it's really weird each time it happens.

This is something I need to do. Have been looking at simple ways of incorporating it into my day. Any suggestions?

Thanks very much. Appreciate the feedback.

Fixed

Thanks very much for pointing that out.

Great point. This article has inspired me to think deeply about the importance of saying no and to write about it in my blog