As most of you know, I'm a Mac guy. I was sucked into Uncle Steve's Reality Distortion Field about five years ago and planned on never looking back (although I do have some issues with the iPhone and MacBook Air...)
But, as a bike rider there are two major reasons to keep a PC around:
1) Computrainer's indoor training software
2) TrainingPeaks (formerly CyclingPeaks)
The Computrainer software is pretty outdated and looks it, but it's still the best thing out there for training inside and is only available in the "Windows" PC Flavor. TrainingPeaks, on the other hand, is an extremely-powerful training analysis tool (we ABD coaches use it), but alas, is only available for Windows as well.
But really, the most important reason to have a PC around (or run Boot Camp on your Mac):
3) Netflix's "instant" program. They've loaded up tons of movies and TV shows for their subscriber's online viewing pleasure. Wednesday night we weren't up for reading the subtitles of "Infernal Affairs" (the original version of Scorsese's "The Departed"), so instead we queued up "Ghostbusters" instantly. Then last night when our copy of "Breach" showed up cracked (Netflix ain't perfect), we kept it old school and instantly watched "The Neverending Story" for the first time in about 20 years. The rumor has it that Netflix will have a Mac version of the instant service this year, but there's 10 months of '08 left...
We'll get to "Infernal Affairs" this weekend. Teammate Alex is coming up from San Diego for the weekend to do a little riding and catch the end of the ToC. Hope you can roll with the foreign film, Alex.
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