What made you go over to the dark side?

GF got an Iphone 3gs .. which recently broke (Nephew put it in the sink .. a full sink .. whilst turned on :( ) and her insurance replaced with an IP4 (woop)..
Decided to use my last year of Uni discount whilst i can to grab a Imac 27" (on order) and hopefully a MPB in Feb :)
 
First got a iPod Touch in 2009 and I liked it soo much I brought a iPhone 3GS and sold the iPod Touch in the same month. I brought a iPad in May. In June I sold my iPhone 3GS and brought a iPhone 4. In August I brought a Macbook Pro 13" since all my friends had one and I sold most of my Windows laptops and netbooks :)
 
I was due an upgrade just as Vista came out. I'd always fancied trying a Mac and the poor reviews for Vista was enough of a push to jump ship. But I have since switched back to PC.
 
I want to buy a Mac. But I'm a dev who uses Windows languages so Visual Studio is pretty much a given. This could be an excuse to learn something new - what's the favoured IDE for Mac and what languages have grounded themselves well amongst the Mac community?
 
LordSplodge said:
It's the install from Hell. Something like 47GB or so on...
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Yep. Nearly half of that is the sound effects library from Soundtrack Pro. Was listening to a few earlier. It's a MASSIVE library!

I also don't want to waste the screen space on just HD video so hopefully I'll buy some high spec looking games, just to gawk.
 
It wasn't a conscious decision for me to go over to the 'dark side'. I happened to find myself in Brent Cross Mac shop 2 years ago and had a play on one. That was my first time ever. I was impressed enough to shell out £1200 on the spot for a 24 iMac with extra RAM. I use it sporadically and mostly just for my video editing, but my Win 7 PC gets the attention 90% of the time. My iMac is really nice, really fun to use, but the Spinning Wheel of Death i get 50% of my Mac-using-time is making me use it less and less. I've had it back to Apple numerous times and it's apparently just one of those things you have to suffer. Well, I don't, hence the fact that I'm on the PC most of the time.
 
I became lazy with PC maintenance and wanted to switch to a more usable OS that doesn't require as much management. I also wanted to try something new.
 
at some point me and my g/f want to get a big mac or at least a mac laptop with a decent size screen, i wish they werent so pricey :-(
 
regulus said:
It wasn't a conscious decision for me to go over to the 'dark side'. I happened to find myself in Brent Cross Mac shop 2 years ago and had a play on one. That was my first time ever. I was impressed enough to shell out £1200 on the spot for a 24 iMac with extra RAM. I use it sporadically and mostly just for my video editing, but my Win 7 PC gets the attention 90% of the time. My iMac is really nice, really fun to use, but the Spinning Wheel of Death i get 50% of my Mac-using-time is making me use it less and less. I've had it back to Apple numerous times and it's apparently just one of those things you have to suffer. Well, I don't, hence the fact that I'm on the PC most of the time.
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Start a new thread, it shouldn't beachball at all let alone 50% of the time.
 
Justin said:
Always wanted one so I bought one.
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This.

I've always wanted a macbook so I stumped up the best part of £2000 for one and at the time wasn't sure about it.

Got it, use it almost constantly and love it.

Can't decided to upgrade my gaming PC next or go for a high spec iMac :)

I also love and adore my iPhone 4 :)
 
regulus said:
My iMac is really nice, really fun to use, but the Spinning Wheel of Death i get 50% of my Mac-using-time is making me use it less and less. I've had it back to Apple numerous times and it's apparently just one of those things you have to suffer. Well, I don't, hence the fact that I'm on the PC most of the time.
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No way should you get the Spinning Beach ball of Death 50% of the time. Something is broken.
 
The first Apple product I bought was the original iPod, infact the only reason I bought it was because of the storage size. I'd been looking at getting some Nike mp3 player, but it held hardly any songs, the iPod could be had for only a little bit more and held tons of songs. I was using it on Windows though which didn't have iTunes so the product support wasn't great.

The first Mac computer I bought was a PowerBook G4 in 2004.
For my final year at Uni we had a bunch of German exchange students come over and they pretty much all had Macs. I was blown away by how good Key Note made doing presentations, we also pretty much finished our entire final project on his Mac using Final Cut Pro, Shake, Motion, Illustrator etc.

I was amazed at how good FCP was, because it was leaps and bounds ahead of Adobe Premiere at the time. Was a no brainer getting one.

I've never really missed Windows since I switched and if I'm honest, since console gaming has become so good I just don't play PC games anymore which is the main thing I used Windows for receretionaly.
 
EVH said:
Written any apps yet?

I've dabbled with some ideas, but I don't have the time to commit to finishing.
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In short, no.

I've been writing a lot of Qt apps for Symbian/MeeGo recently. My brain can't handle learning two programming frameworks/tool sets at the same time. :) I still plan to have a go in the future though.

Still glad I bought my MBP though. It's a fantastic laptop.
 
Well what made me 'switch' and start using Mac was that a few christmases ago my brother was over staying with me and he was working from home by remote desktop to his work place. Now he had to use Paralells to do that so I saw him using WinXP then OSX and asked him how he changed.

One keypress and a cube rotation betweem the two desktops I was sold from that point on.... it was just so cool, and just so easy.... sod messing around with VM on PCs.

The rest is history as they say....
 
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