Anyone gone from a PC to iMac then back to a PC?

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Hi all.

Anyone gone from a PC to iMac then back to a PC? Just wondered really. Went from a PC to imac but 12 months on still not sure so thinking of going back to a PC. Curious if others on here have done the same and why.

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Yeah, I used to have a pc when I was about 12-15, then I had a Macbook from 16-19, PC ever since and i'm 23 now.

Mainly for games, I enjoy taking my pc apart and upgrading it, a lot more power for the money.
 
Nope. I've had a PC at the same time as my iMac but I got rid of that (gave it to my son as he's a PC gamer and needed a new computer) so now I just have Macs.

If I was more of a gamer I'd have a PC as well as an iMac. However I find the GPU on my Retina MacBook Pro good enough to play most games...and running Windows via Bootcamp is fine.
 
Yep, got into building my own PC etc, then for some reason fancied a change and really liekd the iMac form factor at the time ( about 2008), used it for about a year and a half, then went back to PC.

Basically I had Windows on it as well for a lot of music production stuff then just came to the realisation that it was pointless and didnt feel OSX was offering me anything in terms or ability over W7 at the time. Had everything Apple then, iPhone/ iPad etc.

Now W8 everything and prefer it, go figure.
 
I've interchanged twice now, had PC's from about 9 years of age all the way to 21, then bought an iMac while simultaniously running a Vaio laptop with Windows 7, realised the iMac wasn't for me and sold it on. Continued to use the laptop and upgraded the HDD to SSD for increase in performance for awhile. Bought a Macbook Retina last year and loved it, however couldn't justify the performance for what was essentially a web browser and Excel/Document creator so sold it last month.

Doubt I'd buy another one again - I do love the form factor but I can't get on with the OS.

snitcher said:
not being able to right click on the mouse was rather uncomfortable for me. since then i always favoured pcs.
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Not sure if this was a problem before, but there are right clicking options now built into OSX and the magic mouse (failing that, buy a standard mouse).
 
I tried to like imacs but they are just not as useful to me. back to pc I went, though I try and use macs occasionally just so I can at least use them if I have to.
 
Had a gaming pc in 2010 to 2011 then got a mac for 8 months then back on gaming pc.

Macs are overpriced and are for hipsters
 
Think the closest I would come to OSX is visualising from VMWare on a PC, but even that would take some convincing...
 
I was tempted to earlier this year when my iMac almost died, the repair was a lot less than I'd expected so still using it. Love Windows 7, hate Windows 8.
 
I went over to a macbook a few years ago, and after a few months I hated it, I foolishly updated the OS which caused no end of trouble and broke a tonne of things (not something I expected from the 'user friendly mac'), couldn't do programming on it as despite it being UNIX based they have fudged it up something rotten and getting a lot of the packages I was using working was a nightmare.

Now its just a slow piece of junk gathering dust in a closet for when I am away from home for a while, I am also pretty sure its gotten a tonne slower since I first had it, so personally I wouldn't go back ever again.
 
Kinda.

I went PC --> iMac --> PC + Mac Mini.

The iMac was good for day to day computing, and light gaming (i7 + 6770) but as I started gaming more on the Bootcamp installation it quickly started to show it's weakness for me. Now I know it's not a gaming machine, and I was asking a lot from it in the first place but because my needs changed it fast became a pain.

edit - Oh and after a moderate gaming session on the iMac the room was hotter than a gaming session on a PC, those things get SERIOUSLY hot!

For what I sold the iMac for I managed to build a 3570k Z77 based machine with a 570GTX, and buy a Mac Mini (2012, 8GB etc). Admittedly a lot of parts were second hand, but much happier with the setup now.

Mac for work, web browsing and general use. PC for gaming and anything CPU intensive.
 
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PC > Mac > PC > Mac > PC > Mac > PC + Mac.

Choice of machine tends to be driven by needs at the time of purchase. For example, my PC rig set me back around £2,500, but hasn't even been powered on for a month.
 
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