The Mac is easy to love when it operates invisibly behind the scenes while you work. It's even easier to love when it interacts with your toys and makes them more powerful and fun.
This point was driven home last week when my son finally saved enough money to buy a Sony PSP (PlayStation Portable) video game device. This awesome portable game player features a letterbox format, high resolution colour, and a 4.3-inch display. The game play is exceptional, but by adding some Mac shareware, it becomes a toy of the future.
With PSPWare installed, simply plugging your PSP into your Mac will automatically download movies, music libraries from iTunes, and photo libraries from iPhoto. Using PSPWare's drop-box feature, you can download other documents from other applications to your PSP for future viewing as well. The PSPWare application automatically converts your entertainment (or work) into the correct viewing format.
The only downside is that the PSP graphics are so real and the game play so intense, that may lose communication with your game player for a few weeks until he or she gets over the novelty.
I mentioned that the Mac is easy to love when it works invisibly while you work. However, this usually isn't the case if you use Adobe Acrobat. Acrobat is the application that allows for complex edits on PDF documents. In OS X, all Mac applications can create PDF documents, but Acrobat is the professional's application for doing more advanced or precise document creation.
The Mac version doesn't do all the things that the PC version does. The most frustrating deficiency is Acrobat's inability to edit and fill out forms.