Okay, folks, that's all she wrote... or, rather, all he wrote, "he" being David Coursey, the Windoid-in-Chief over at ZDNet AnchorDesk. If you've been following his saga for the past few months, though, you're already aware that he's a slightly more well-balanced Windoid these days; right about when Mac OS X came out, Dave started making favorable noises about Apple's new operating system, and his Mac friendliness pretty much grew from there. And back in January, after a minor lapse into iMac-bashing that apparently stemmed more from his perception that Apple had lied to him about prerelease press access to the system than anything about the system itself, Dave decided to put the Mac to the ultimate test: he'd spend a full month using one instead of his usual Wintel, just to see if a confirmed Windows lover could learn to love a Mac.

Well, his early reports on his Mac migration experience were surprisingly favorable, and the fact that his "month with a Mac" eventually turned into a "quarter-year with a Mac" (allegedly due to "illness") certainly made a few of us suspicious that Dave was being pulled inexorably to the Light Side of the Force. And now that the experiment has finally wound to a close, as faithful viewer David H Dennis informed us, what's the verdict? Can a Windoid find happiness in Macville? You can exhale now; Dave's conclusion is a hearty "You bet!" (And yes, we're quoting-- exclamation point and all. The man's even enthusiastic about this.)

Whatever Reality Distortion Field enhancing agent that Apple snuck into David's Honey Nut Cheerios apparently totally did the trick, because the guy is unapologetically bubbly about his Mac experience; he even admits that his single MacMonth turned into three largely because-- and again, we quote-- "I like this little iMac and don't want to give it up. It's a whole lot more fun than my Windows machine, and a great creative tool." True, he lists some things he dislikes about the Mac, as well, but they're relatively small points, and they only serve to make his overall newfound love for the platform just that much more believable. This is quite plainly the portrait of a Windows guy who gave the Mac a try and liked what he found. Well, either that, or Apple's got some serious MK Ultra mojo workin' now. But seriously, that's ridiculous.

(Memo to Apple: the mind-control substance works. Administer it to John Dvorak ASAP.)