<p>Apple announced new Retina display-equipped MacBook Pro laptops at its event last month, as well as the launch of the latest version of OS X, Mavericks. For this PC user, it was enough to finally make the jump from Windows to Mac for the first time.</p><p>Almost everyone I know slowly switched to Mac in college, but I stuck it out with Windows. For a long time I thought it was the best choice of platform simply because purchasing a Mac seemed to be extortionately expensive compared with buying a PC desktop or laptop. I was wrong.The Good</p><p>After booting up for the first time it stood out to me that there wasn't a longwinded setup process, nor was there any pre-installed junk on the machine. No advertising links on the desktop, no "free" Norton antivirus and best of all no drivers to install. The machine was ready to go out of the box, which is a nice change from setting up a Windows PC.</p><p>The applications that are bundled with Mavericks are pretty fantastic, Mail and Calendar work great. Messages integration with iMessage is perfect especially if you have an iPhone as is the Notes application and Reminders, which all work well together. For the last year I've been using Windows 8, which is a great OS but the bundled 'modern' applications aren't anywhere near as well-rounded comparatively and really require a touchscreen to make them useful, so having beautiful built-in apps is a nice change.</p><p><a href="http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/11/10/switching-windows-mac-learned/">Keep reading...</a></p>