Switching from Microsoft to Apple??????

[cwedl]

After using the microsoft platform for over 10 years, ever since my first computer, I have decided to switch to Apple Macs.

All my friends think I am mad, Mainly because I have been programming on that platform for years. and so have they! I am sick of microsoft with its activations, the fact that windows xp is supposed to be more stable (yeh right!!!), and the fact they copy apple all the time e.g. Mac OSX and Windows XP need I say any more. I am a student and I am going to university at the end of this year. I am going to be doing Law so I don't need microsoft for that.

I have decided upon a 12" powerbook Combo. I can't wait until I can afford it, I will be getting it just before I go to university.

If you have just switched from Microsoft to Apple, what was it like and would you ever go back????

If you have been a Mac user all your life, have you ever used a microsoft PC, and would you ever switch????

[psyjax]

Hey, good for you!

Apple needs more supporters in these hard times. I allways say to M$ people, just try OSX and you will never want to go back. Most of them have switched.

Anyway, I have used Apple's all of my life. I have used nearly all personal computers, but Apples have allways been my favoright. My first Macintosh was a IIsi, an old 68k clunker, but I loved it.

I now own a PC. An AMD Athalon 2100 and, basically it just plays games and serves e-mail. Everything else I do is on Mac's. Linux and Windows (98SE, and RedHat 8) just cant cut it when it comes to usability. Both interfaces are light years behind OSX, and the crash factor is a whole lot lower under OSX as well (Linux has freaked out on me more than a couple of times. OSX tallies in at 1 total meltdown in the 2 years I have run it exclusivley, and it was my fault.)

Right now we have a webserver off of an old iMac 233! A OS9 workstation off of another iMac 233, a graphics powerhouse off of my main machine, a G4 dual 800Mhz. An audio editing station of a G4 dual 1.2Ghz. And finally a portable solution, my current computer, a 400Mhz TiBook G4.

So ya, I like Mac's   , will use them till the day I die.

[The Lost]

quote:Originally posted by cwedl:
After using the microsoft platform for over 10 years, ever since my first computer, I have decided to switch to Apple Macs.

All my friends think I am mad, Mainly because I have been programming on that platform for years. and so have they! I am sick of microsoft with its activations, the fact that windows xp is supposed to be more stable (yeh right!!!), and the fact they copy apple all the time e.g. Mac OSX and Windows XP need I say any more. I am a student and I am going to university at the end of this year. I am going to be doing Law so I don't need microsoft for that.

I have decided upon a 12" powerbook Combo. I can't wait until I can afford it, I will be getting it just before I go to university.

If you have just switched from Microsoft to Apple, what was it like and would you ever go back????

If you have been a Mac user all your life, have you ever used a microsoft PC, and would you ever switch????

I learned how to use computers in general with a old Mac Performa that was in my High School's Digital Art class and a bit later on my High School library I learned how to surf the 'Net, etc. with Windows. So, acquiring the knowledge on how to use both Windows-equipped PCs and Macs at the same time has let me understand clearly the differences between them. Macs are definitely more easy to use and less crash prone; but even in my school which specializes in Art our teacher always told us "Macs are expensive and only for artists", making me ask myself why. After several years after that and having only a PC in my home
I almost forgot how to use a Mac. But I later discovered that a friend of mine's father is a graphic artist and with them I started to re-learn again how to use Macs. Now I own one and I'm teaching myself how to discover new tricks in Mac OS X and learning how to use its Unix underpinnings to my benefit.

The difference between Windows and the Mac OS are so big as the distance between sky and earth...

Hope it helps!!!!

[rtgwbmsr]

I used PCs back in the day of Packard Bell, etc. It was maxed out with 4 MB RAM which cost god only knows how much. Then I got an LCIII and loved it (this was in the mid 90's BTW)...so I bought a PowerBook G3 in '99. Used that until I bought my iBook a few weeks ago.

Love Macs, would never go back. I'm trying to sell off my last remaining PC now so I can buy a G4 desktop...

[ April 07, 2003: Message edited by: The Muffin Man ]

[billy_gates]

I've used PC's my entire life literally, I'm 16.  Just last year I switched.  I would never go back, the only regret is with pure outright speed, price, and gaming.  That may seem like a lot, but the list the other way around is much larger.  My Mac has crashed 2 times in one year.  My PC crashes (I still have a PC for games) maybe 2 or 3 times per month, with windows fucking 2000, the most stable version.  Everything on the Mac is better, the apps, the user interface, and the iApps rule all.  I hope Apple never puts iApps on PC, they the most major reason to switch.  They are better at what they do and how you do it than any PC apps I have seen that supposedly do the same thing.  Good Luck, I hope you have no regrets.  As for lawschool, that is totally doable.  The only majors where macs are problems is with programming and specialised Microsoft Networking.

[xyle_one]

i switched last summer. i was using 10.1 for about 2 weeks and hated it. then 10.2 came out. i bought that and never looked back. osX is the most perfect os i have ever used. fuck a windows. i use a mac. i now own two macs. a dual 1ghz G4, and an old clamshell tangerine ibook. i love my mac.
trust me. after using your mac for about a week, you will wonder why you didnt switch earlier  

[Pantso]

What can I say here? The others have covered me fully!    Let me just agree with the rest, that once you get a Mac, you'll never look back (shit, it rhymes    ). Can you believe that I prefer working on my 12" screen iBook running OS X.2 than my 14" screen Toshiba one? In fact, I'm doing 80% of my work on my iBook! Anyway, take our word for it, save some cash and get a Mac! You definitely won't regret it!  

[M51DPS]

My whole life I've used almost entirely macs while nearly everyone else in my community owns pc's    . I often hear about the problems other people have with their pc's. Too bad they're all stupid sheep who would never switch and will probably always worship the xbox   :rolleyes:   (unfortunatly this year my school "upgraded" from macs to pc's  :eek:  ) . I've used Mac OS 7 through 10.2 and almost everything in between, and hope to try Linux sometime soon. I've never been happier with Jaguar   .

[ April 07, 2003: Message edited by: M51DPS ]

[Pissed_Macman]

quote:Originally posted by cwedl:
If you have been a Mac user all your life, have you ever used a microsoft PC, and would you ever switch????

HELL FUCKING NO!!!!

I've used Macs my entire life and just over the past six months I've started using Windows 2000 regularly at school. Every time I use it I get a sick feeling and the horrible aesthetic design alone makes me want to hurl. It's just gray when you have a program open but no windows?? C'mon what the fuck is that??? It's called fucking Windows for crying out fucking loud!!! Our teacher also tried to lock us out of the menus and stuff so the desktop can only stay a boring blue (which clashes with the light blue-gray of the Window panes by the way!) but Windows is so horribly designed that all you have to do is go into some obscure folders and convert an image with Paint and you can bypass this!! But don't get me started on the faults of Windows 2000!!

Anyway, if I had to switch to Windows completely, if I didn't die of a stroke when I heard the news in the first place, then I would have to hang myself or something.

[M51DPS]

quote:HELL FUCKING NO!!!!

I've used Macs my entire life and just over the past six months I've started using Windows 2000 regularly at school. Every time I use it I get a sick feeling and the horrible aesthetic design alone makes me want to hurl. It's just gray when you have a program open but no windows?? C'mon what the fuck is that? It's called fucking Windows for crying out fucking loud! Our teacher also tried to lock us out of the menus and stuff so the desktop can only stay a boring blue (which clashes with the light blue-gray of the Window panes by the way!) but Windows is so horribly designed that all you have to do is go into some obscure folders and convert an image with Paint and you can bypass this!! But don't get me started on the faults of Windows 2000!!

Anyway, if I had to switch to Windows completely, if I didn't die of a stroke when I heard the news in the first place, then I would have to hang myself or something.

I have the same feelings, which is why I try to use school computers as little as possible and do all my projects at home on a real computer. I hate microsoft  :mad: .

[Pissed_Macman]

And its not even gray behind the Windows either!!! It's just alternating black and white dots. The last Apple program to have that was hypercard!! Whatever kind of dumbass designed the look of XP obviously decided to use gradients everywhere he could, but the gradients don't even blend right (If you cover one eye and go cross-eyed and look at the screen the gradients will blend together perfectly, but doing that will get you some odd looks). Oh dear I started ranting again.

[jtpenrod]

quote:I often hear about the problems other people have with their pc's. Too bad they're all stupid sheep who would never switch and will probably always worship the xbox

Now just hold on there. I have a PC. I don't have any problems with it at all. I run Linux exclusively. I do not now, nor will I ever, own an X-Crox. I am not stupid, nor am I a "sheep".                
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[M51DPS]

quote:Originally posted by jtpenrod:
Now just hold on there. I have a PC. I don't have any problems with it at all. I run Linux exclusively. I do not now, nor will I ever, own an X-Crox. I am not stupid, nor am I a "sheep".                        

Sorry, I meant to say pc's running Windows, I didn't mean to target the hardware. My fault.

[jtpenrod]

quote:Sorry, I meant to say pc's running Windows, I didn't mean to target the hardware. My fault.

No prob. I can see how that could happen: it's an easy mistake to make.    

First things first: let's defeat His Gatesness, then Apple people and Intel people can fight it out.    
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Their fundamental design flaws are completely concealed by their superficial design flaws.

[mushrooomprince]

Yea i switched to mac os 10.1 about 8 months ago. I'm only 16 but im a loyal mac user. Its cute really. Ive not only switched my hardware but all my clothing to apple or amd/open source code related items. basicanly no intel or microsoft.