From a NY Times Bestseller

[Bill Sconce]

[BCCs to my Mac friends]

p 75:
    She glanced at her watch: 1:00 P.M.
    
    What had she gotten herself into?
    
    She plugged in her laptop and booted it up.  At the insistence of
    her husband, Bill, she had recently switched from a PC to a Mac,
    and now the boot-up process took a tenth the time--zero to sixty
    in 8.9 seconds instead of two and a half plodding minutes.  It had
    been like trading up from a Ford Fiesta to a Mercedes SL.  As she
    watched the Apple logo appear, she thought that at least one thing
    in her life was going right.


Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
"The Book of the Dead"
Warner Books  New York  2006
ISBN 978-0-446-57698-7

Preston & Child have written a number of books together, collaborating
remotely.  FWIW, as of last year when they spoke in NH they were using
PCs.

-Bill