We’ve Switched to the Mac!

Our family has just crossed the Great Divide and moved from a PC computer to a new iMac , following a long period of wishing, hoping and saving our pennies.
Both my wife and I, retired teachers, had used -- and taught our respective students with -- the early Macintosh, back in the late 1980s, and had been impressed with the ease of use and all-in-one experience.
The iMac is so easy to set up: I plugged in the power cord and the keyboard’s USB, and hit the Power switch.
After answering a few basic questions on the Set Up Guide, I saw the iMac go out and ‘catch’ the nighbourhood Wi-fi signals.
I logged in to our house net, and was ready to work.
The process was guided and made much easier by two great books, ‘Switching to a Mac for Dummies’ , by Arnold Reinhold, and, ‘Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition’ , by David Pogue.
The first, as the ‘Dummies’ name indicates, is designed for beginners.
BTW, I’m proud to say that now have five ‘... For Dummies’ books in my library, which I consult quite often.
Pogue’s text deals with more technical topics, but is also helpful. The content of the two books complement each other.
Guess the most complex tasks now -- not THAT difficult -- are: setting up the Desktop for personal preferences, and transferring the files from the PC, with Flash Drive, CDs and even a new external Hard Drive. Most of my data files are written and in stored in ‘WordPerfect’ format, which ‘Microsoft Word’ has a lot of trouble with. (Not the ‘Mac, the ‘Word’ software.)
Over the last several months, our slow-moving PC system -- an 8-year-old ‘Dell,’ using ‘Hotmail’ and ‘G-mail,’ along with ‘WordPerfect’ and ‘Microsoft Word,’-- has caused our home office to witness many strings of expletives, usually ending in ‘Curse you, Bill Gates!’
After moving the data files over to the ‘iMac’, we’ll keep the ‘Dell’ in operation, though, mostly to use the fantastic ‘Dragon Naturally Speaking’ dictation software.
But, apart from that, we’re free ... WE’RE FREE, AT LAST!