Poll: Would you go from Windows to OSX?

Would you consider buying a OSX licence?

  • Yes, give me some Apple goodness!

    Votes: 73 23.9%

  • Hell no! Windows for life

    Votes: 130 42.5%

  • Never used OSX, so have no idea

    Votes: 103 33.7%
  • Total voters
    306
Thats of course your opinion Concord Rules. Everyone enjoys different experiences and features of an operating system.

Vista on my PC runs really well, it is hardly ever turned off and hasn't crashed in 10 odd months. Can't really ask for more.

I've not used OSX extensively, only on my girlfriends MacBook now and again. Despite my interest in Linux I always find myself going back to Vista.
 
Even though I've used Windows since it's first incarnation, I'd love to try OSX out. It's something new, and gives me a chance to learn the ins and outs of a totally different OS.
 
Kainz said:
Even though I've used Windows since it's first incarnation, I'd love to try OSX out. It's something new, and gives me a chance to learn the ins and outs of a totally different OS.
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You'd be better off using Linux as you can play a bit more. If you have a PC you can start playing with Linux right away. :)
 
I put that I haven't tried OSX yet - because I haven't! :p

I'm actually thinking of getting a MacBook for work and also to enable me to learn how to use MacOS X.

I'd have to take bootcamp off though - to remove the temptation to boot into Windows. :o
 
OS X is good, but Finder sucks.
Vista is nice, but not having a proper unix terminal is annoying, and I'd like a virtual desktop feature built in.

I might buy OS X and dual boot with Vista if it were released -- for work.

As for reliability - for me, Leopard kernel panics sometimes when woken from sleep, Vista sometimes fails to do the sleep/wake cycle.. so meh, neither is perfect.
 
I don't know becuase you can't trial osx at all or anything.

Price of hardware would stop me making the switch if i had tried it and liked it though.
 
yantorsen said:
so if they sold OS X OEM for £80 for your PC, is it worth £80 more than every single distro of Linux?
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absolutely.

I tried OSX after being a die-hard windows fanboy for quite some time. I only tried it out of morbid curiosity, but the way it you do things just makes so much more sense to me. I still use Windows for gaming (well, just Counterstrike, really), but other than that, I now use OSX all the way
 
allllec said:
I don't know becuase you can't trial osx at all or anything.

Price of hardware would stop me making the switch if i had tried it and liked it though.
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It's honestly not too bad when you compare it with machines from other OEMs (e.g. you don't compare the price of buying an iMac with what it would cost to build a PC yourself).
 
Caged said:
It's honestly not too bad when you compare it with machines from other OEMs (e.g. you don't compare the price of buying an iMac with what it would cost to build a PC yourself).
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Thing is with a PC you can make it a work in progress. I mean i was so poor when i built my first computer i didn't have a case for 6months etc. Maybe that's a bit extreme but you get my drift.

Think the main thing that puts me off anything other than windows is that i can't use it with my current hardware and I can't play computer games.

Oh well - suppose windows works can't say I'm overly bothered about it at the moment!
 
Caged said:
It's honestly not too bad when you compare it with machines from other OEMs
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We buy HP DC7700 with E6600, 2GB ram etc for about £350 at work. TBH, I can't see how Apple fully justify the price of the hardware without reflecting the price of the bundled OS and apps.

Burnsy
 
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I think if you were buying Macs as a business purchase and in decent quantities you wouldn't pay the retail rates for them ;).

I'm not denying they're pricey, but it's not a cost that's hard to justify once you've got used to one.
 
JonRohan said:
You'd be better off using Linux as you can play a bit more. If you have a PC you can start playing with Linux right away. :)
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Yup, although I've been running Ungumbo via VMWare for a while now. Used to use Suse years ago back in 2000 and getting used to linux again is a major task lol. Still love it though.
 
Think I hit a nerve with some Mac users in here, it's based on Unix, that's what I meant. And there is nothing a Mac can do that Linux hasn't achieved and Windows hasn't. It's an operating system that's looks nice in my eyes. Nothing more to it.

I can get my own dock too.
 
In regard to buying a base unit and other OEM hardware costs, at work for general retail I can buy a Q6600, 3GB RAM, 250GB HD and an 8400GS (weak I know, but you get the point) with Vista Home Premium for £460 (or just over £400 to take in staff discount), add in a decent screen and thats £660-760. Still about £500 or so short of a mac with weaker specifications, not to mention I could then upgrade the OEM system, which Mac is a lot more finicky about. Yes ok, some of the larger manufacturers will charge more for the same hardware, but at the end of the day, thats because people trust the name and will buy them; choose a smaller OEM or name and you get much better value for money.

Macs are nice and all, but Im very much not convinced with it being the 'holy grail' of operating systems approach that some people like to take, also, the software support is highly focused and completely lacking in some areas, and tends to be harder to find and more expensive at that, so unless I was seriously into music production or video editing, I'd rather have a PC; it may be a jack of all trades; but set up and equipped properly and it can do most things exceedingly well.
 
never used OSX, would possibly try it out though if it was a decent price.

if it wasnt for i dont have £400 to waste id probably get the basic mac mini and a KVM switch to try it out.
 
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