I get a lot of crap from my co-workers for using a Mac. While I can understand their comments on the days when I have to start up Parallel’s to administer my Domino server, I generally think they’re simply not getting it. - I think a little history lesson is important to illustrate why:

My fascination with Apple started with my first computer, the Apple IIc. Ah, what a beauty. I was uber-cool because I had two floppy disk drives. Very handy.

In grade school & Jr. High, of course we used Macs. Who didn’t?! - Now with hard drives. I thought it was cool, but preferred having a copy of everything on floopy incase something happened to that hard drive thingy.

In high school, I remember holding the Apple Newton in my hand. What a clever device! Looked like something off Star Trek. I wanted one sooo badly but didn’t know exactly what I’d do with it (or how to justify the $).

I got on a Dell-kick on college. Let’s not talk about that.

Then, a few years ago, I bought my first iPod. This was the most clever thing ever! Even today, I’m amazed that a closet full of CDs can fit onto a device so small… oh, yeah, and I have my calendar, contacts, games and videos on it too; with room to spare!

It was my 2nd iPod that really got things moving. About 2 months later, I owned my first iMac. — Today, I’m on #4 between home and my office.

How does this all relate to my IT department giving me crap about being a Mac-head? It doesn’t … oh, except for the fact that their main storage & backup systems run off an Apple XRaid box with 7 TB of disk space and that its been such a hit that not even 1 year after we installed it, they begged me to purchase more disk for it because they wanted to use it to store even more stuff (see picture).

So … maybe there’s something to this Mac stuff after all?
They had better watch out. Apple’s announcement today about the new Intel based Xserve means that a native Universal version of Domino for the Mac could be right around the corner.