Any PC users out there recently switch to Mac?

[bossass]

It's a great time to get into mac.

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=59086

[majortom]

Not going to say much that hasn't been said already, but I made the switch to a Mac at home (Powerbook G4) about 9 months ago, and have to say I love it. Far, far nicer to use than the PCs I'm still forced to use at work. Much quicker, much more intuitive and programs are far less likely to crash (let alone the machine itself).

The new MacBooks are supposed to be even better, and this is probably as good a time as any to make the switch. I'd be very surprised if anyone had any regrets. Oh, they do take a little bit of getting used to, but it's really not as much as some people seem to believe.

[Tuckerman]

I've had enough bad luck with PCs that the thought of a computer w/o "freeze" issues or the "blue screen of death" or needing to reboot. I know I'm not cool and urban like the typical Apple owner, but I can learn...

Sounds more like a OS problem. Try a different OS. Try a duel boot with Linux so you can look back if you have to have fun.

[Meathelmet]

For those with new mac laptops (MacBook and MacBook Pro), you can use the trackpad to right click by placing two fingers on it. It seems like it would be weird at first, but is really intuitive.

In the same vein, you can also scroll by placing two fingers on the trackpad and moving them horizontally or vertically.

Aand you can use programs,like Sidetrack or iScroll on older iBooks for example.Works like a charm.


I have self been in the mac camp for the last 5years because i needed a stable platform for working with photographs.
All i can say is that after those five years i cant help but praise the macs.

As said,there obviously has been and is some problems,but comparing with the pc world (i have/have had pc´s for 15yrs) it is a different ballgame.
The hitches with macs in theese 5 years have been nonexistant.
A dead battery in my old G4,a broken USB in my iBook and a Epson printer that refused to work properly on any mac.
There have been occasional program crashes,but the times when the whole system has frozen,i can only think of couple.And those instances it has been some fucked up peripherals or cardreaders that have been the culprit.

So,mac´s get a thumbsup from me,even if i cant consider myself as a macophile..



Now in few weeks it is time to move on to a 3ghz MacPro and ACDs.
Lets see how painlesly that transfer from the old system goes goes...

[upallnight]

As for crashes, Macs can't be beat. I haven't had an app bring down the entire system since OS X 10.0. The worst thing that happens is an app becomes nonresponsive and so you just force quit it and bring it back up. On rare occasions the app is a little quirky still, which can be fixed with a restart. But I can pretty much guarantee you'll never have an app bring down the whole system.

just a counterpoint here. i lik eworking on macs, but i primarily use pcs.

whn ei'm doing design work with quark (ps cs2 is usually open), i get a 'take-down-the-system' type of crash at least once a week. sometimes it happens several times a night.

when they work, they're unbelievable. but (at least to me) troubleshooting a mac is nigh impossible. why it went down and understanding why it took a hard reboot i can never figure out.

[bio-smear]

I have to second (or third) the other suggestions of linux/bsd. You will tear your hair out for the first 6 months, and after that will be a power god of computing (maybe.)

[fez]

i switched from working in a Unix/Linux shop to a Microsoft shop almost a year ago. Really starting to get the hang of windows (like the deep inside internals few people get into) but still love Linux. someday i bet i will even remember to type dir before the dos prompt bitches at me for trying ls.

I am strongly considering a Mac for my next computer, easy to use but still just a click away from a proper shell.

[bio-smear]

i switched from working in a Unix/Linux shop to a Microsoft shop almost a year ago. Really starting to get the hang of windows (like the deep inside internals few people get into) but still love Linux. someday i bet i will even remember to type dir before the dos prompt bitches at me for trying ls.

I am strongly considering a Mac for my next computer, easy to use but still just a click away from a proper shell.

OSX really is the best unix desktop ever created.

[Arty50]

just a counterpoint here. i lik eworking on macs, but i primarily use pcs.

whn ei'm doing design work with quark (ps cs2 is usually open), i get a 'take-down-the-system' type of crash at least once a week. sometimes it happens several times a night.

when they work, they're unbelievable. but (at least to me) troubleshooting a mac is nigh impossible. why it went down and understanding why it took a hard reboot i can never figure out.

It's because Quark sucks:
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=271573
http://forums.macnn.com/applications...ark-6-1-a.html

[road trip]

Arty, are you on Apple's payroll???

[Arty50]

Arty, are you on Apple's payroll???

No, but I'm a shareholder.

[upallnight]

It's because Quark sucks:
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=271573
http://forums.macnn.com/applications...ark-6-1-a.html

yes, true enough...but i must use it (in this instance), and it does take down the OS.

macs are pretty commonly used for DTP & such, so there are a ton of people affected by it.

crappy windoze programs take down windows...just like a crappy mac program can take down mac os. i guess i was trying to say it's not ALL sunshine-n-roses in macland, y'know?

they are slick, though...but switching back and forth sometimes frustrates me simply because i'm far more used to PC commands and being able to tinker when i need to; i often get shut out of that on a mac.

[The Jackamo]

It's because Quark sucks

i second that. we're slowly porting all of our print stuff from quark to indesign because we've gotten so fed up with quark being a pain in the ass.

[seldon]

so i just switched, today, to a macbook pro and i've never seen anything this easy and this simple to set up etc in many years of building my own pcs... there was no set-up screwup, nothing of the sort. i'm sold unless this turns into a total clusterfuck, which seems unlikely. it's beautiful imho.

[f2f]

good luck, seldon. for me the macs are as close to an "electrical appliance" as one can get. minimum requirements for fiddling, they just get the job done.