I’m curious what in 2009 was the tipping point for you. In no way am I interested in challenging your switch, it’s just really interesting timing (as that was around the time nearly all of Apple’s product lines were growing rapidly even among the general HN audience).
Yeah, it was a weird time to do it. I'd been gravitating towards Linux for a while (including a lot of trying to get it to work on my iBook), and in 2009 I finally had the money for a decent new computer, so I got a Lenovo X200.
