Are You Using a MAC? Inquiring Minds Want to Know.

Today is a big day here at Above the Law. It’s our first day in new offices. Above the Law is now coming to you live from 611 Broadway, Suite 907D, New York, NY 10012. That’s penthouse floor in the Crate and Barrel building on Broadway and Houston. It’s the kind of space that would make a fine executive bathroom for Biglaw partners, but for us humble bloggers, it’s very nice.

Today also marks the day where Above the Law’s parent company, Breaking Media, officially switches over to a MAC based operation. Since Lat and I have been the only two editors in the stable stubbornly sticking with their PC’s, this changes affects us the most. What can I say, we fear change (and like having two buttons that do different things, Steve Jobs).

In fairness, it’s not unusual for jorno-types to be working from MACS. I mean, they work. In the two weeks I’ve been test driving my ATL-MAC (which is really Kash’s ATL-MAC which I only got after they got rid of all of her totally inappropriate pictures) the thing has never once crashed. It’s never just randomly refused to start. It’s never taken 16 hours to de-frag after being attacked by a virus. It just works.

But the PC is still king at law firms, right? I mean why even have all those IT guys if things just worked when you turned them on? Well, there’s a group trying to figure out if that’s still the case. Are you guys using a PC at work, or are MACs gaining a foothold in a profession notoriously slow to change?

The people at Legal Blog Watch pointed us in the direction of a survey we think you should take:

Specifically, software company Clio is conducting a survey on the extent of Mac use in law firms. Here’s a link to the press release announcing the survey, and here’s a link to the survey itself.

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If you take the survey you’ll be in a contest to win an iPad. I’m sure that will be cool for the people who know what the hell you’re supposed to use an iPad for.

We can’t offer you something as fancy (at least, not for taking a poll) but we are interested in what you guys are using to read ATL. Are you guys accessing us via a MAC or a PC? Let us know.

And if you have any tips for a person undergoing the PC to MAC conversion, send them along. And we might be light on verbatim quotes for a while, this stupid squiggly key isn’t as easy to access as trusty old “Cntrl, v”

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