Cross-posted to the MacRumors Forums.

I was a computer support technician all through high school and college. Many a pizza was afforded with the reasonably high wage it brought in. I was never at the very highest levels, but I could help folks with their networking and moderate hardware issues.

I used to be an expert at Windows (this was mostly 98 and 98SE) and eventually rose to be the top Mac expert on our team, although that was more due to lack of mac-people than anything else.

I got an iBook last year mostly because I loved the way OS X worked and I thought they looked cool. I was surprised to learn that I've basically forgotten everything I knew about "fixing" computers.

Why? Because my mac never breaks.

To me, that's their biggest selling point. You won't wake up one day to find your mac displaying an indecipherable error message or your favorite programs suddenly needed to be reinstalled. I'm not saying that never happens, but it hasn't happened to me.

All of the sudden, using my computer became more about USING MY COMPUTER instead of trying to constantly fiddle with it. I got an ipod and tripped out an a dizzying array of music. I started a blog that is now a great project for me. I got into RSS and now read things I never would have before. I always have like 9 tabs open on safari. Just tonight, I made my first ever song on GarageBand.

Now, my "computer" hobby is about trying new software and being confident that it won't junk up my system or carry unwanted programs. Deleting it is as simple as...well...deleting it. If the new software does something I like, I keep it. And don't worry about conflicts. I just worry about doing something fun, interesting, productive or cool. It's a brave new world.