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

gavind said:
Ipad is the original and no one can ever beat that. But in terms of usability, Nexus beats Ipad in every round.
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Depends what you mean by original. For example 2010 was the year of the tablet before apple announced their iPad...;)
 
I've pretty much owned EVERY mac model at some point or other, but am currently using a PC because there's no mac powerful enough to game at 1600p.
 
I wouldn't say I have gone strictly from PC to Mac then back to PC because I use them both side by side and I am very loyal (yes I'm one of "that lot") to Apple. To be fair I didn't get into Macs for any other reason than the fact they are beautiful...

I only ever use my PC for gaming - everything else is done on my Macs.
 
Here's my best guess for a timeline..

2001 - Terrible off the shelf PC
2002 - Upgraded PC with parts and got the bug
2003 - Shuttle SFF PC x3 while I messed around upgrading constantly
2004 - iMac G5
2005 - iMac (Intel)
2006 - MBP
2007 - MBP then sold and built Gaming PC
2008 - Sold PC, got an iMac then sold and got Mac Pro
2009 - Sold Mac Pro and built PC
2010 - MBP and Mac Mini
2011 - Sold MBP and built PC
2012 - Sold Mac Mini and upgraded PC
2013 - ....

I'd say that's my best guess. Something isn't sitting right but I cba to figure it all out. I know I had a decent gaming PC at least twice, stopped gaming for a while so bought a Mac, then thought "Hmmm I fancy gaming again" a few years later and built another PC. In amongst that flip-flopping I bought laptops and generally never kept a machine for longer than 12 months.

I've got to a point with my PC that I'm happy with it. It would take so long and so much effort to sell it all off that I will probably keep it for another year. No doubt in a year when the hardware is old-hat I will end up selling it :facepalm:

That's what I like about owning a laptop or iMac, chuck it in the box and send it. You can sell them pretty easily and change as you see fit. With a PC you have to find a buyer for all the different components so you end up without a machine for a month while its all in pieces.
 
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Hm, I spent about £2k on a PC and peripherals (screen, speakers etc) when I started at uni 6 years ago. It was a Vista machine, I felt like I was rebuilding the thing every week, totally useless. I'm sure it was the OS rather than anything else but I'd had enough after 6 months and bought my first mac, a 2008 MBP. I upgraded everything I could in it over the years, (RAM & SSD)...produced an animated film on it and the thing is still going strong.

I only bought another MBP in November last year as I had an accident and smashed the screen up. Which I managed to fix in the end.

I don't like where Apple are going with hardware or software the past couple of years, but by the looks of Windows 8 (and I've used it a fair bit now), I know which camp I'd rather be in right now. It's a shame there isn't a viable third option for me.
 
Never owned a Mac but was forced to use OSX and some hideous custom UNIX at a work place.

Im a 99% windows man, i simply cant function without 2 mouse buttons. how silly is that ?

I have no appreciation of Apple aesthetics over PC. If i ever needed a software package i couldn't run on a pc id get a Mac otherwise no.
 
I honestly believe half the people in this thread are just ignorant.

Ignorant because they don't know how to do things in a OS they have not used. Imagine starting from scratch and having to learn windows inside and out, it won't happen in a single day.

I would say in some ways OS X is more customisable/useful features then windows. It's also true that for the most part, if there's a problem or issue with Mac OS X then there is usually one way to do it. Compared with windows and its method of 10 different ways to do the same thing.

Terminal is no different to command prompt in windows. Preferences in OS X is the same as control panel for windows.

I'm not a 'fanboy' as such, I still have my pc which I've built but I now use this purely for gaming, occasional ms office work. Everything else on the iMac and that's with a handful of third party apps installed. It goes to sleep rather than needing to be shutdown all the time and barely shows its age in day to day use. I also have a MacBook Unibody which was my first Apple Mac. And yes the build quality exceeds any other laptop I've tried, seriously go to John Lewis and stroll down the laptop isle. ;)

Remember a Apple Mac is a PC. It's the software that is unique to it, and it helps that the software is designed for the hardware and vice versa. :)
 
I don't swap but run in house....

4 win7
1 osx x
3 ios
1 android
1 win 8 mob


We are confused....but seriously the mac is used for aperture and photoshop for missus..and I boot camp win7 for business use as I can do things faster on win7. Wether that's through practice or win7 is more productive I don't know.

OS X is lovely to use, but you always get that slight Linux feel where you get feeling the GUI is just bolted on top of some command line dinosaur
 
Blackhawk47 said:
I honestly believe half the people in this thread are just ignorant.

Ignorant because they don't know how to do things in a OS they have not used. Imagine starting from scratch and having to learn windows inside and out, it won't happen in a single day.

I would say in some ways OS X is more customisable/useful features then windows. It's also true that for the most part, if there's a problem or issue with Mac OS X then there is usually one way to do it. Compared with windows and its method of 10 different ways to do the same thing.

Terminal is no different to command prompt in windows. Preferences in OS X is the same as control panel for windows.

I'm not a 'fanboy' as such, I still have my pc which I've built but I now use this purely for gaming, occasional ms office work. Everything else on the iMac and that's with a handful of third party apps installed. It goes to sleep rather than needing to be shutdown all the time and barely shows its age in day to day use. I also have a MacBook Unibody which was my first Apple Mac. And yes the build quality exceeds any other laptop I've tried, seriously go to John Lewis and stroll down the laptop isle. ;)

Remember a Apple Mac is a PC. It's the software that is unique to it, and it helps that the software is designed for the hardware and vice versa. :)
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Yep, terminal is the same as command prompt, except oft needs to be used much more... ;)

Preferences is like control panel, except with all the more technical bits taken out (it's not much more than the display and customisation menu in windows).

OSX is great in many ways, however it just can't get over the fact it's basically a server OS modified for consumers, rather than being built from the bottom up to be a consumer device. At least that's what I think after two intensive years of ownership.

As for build quality I agree, you're not going to find much in the john Lewis isle that will compare (other than the high end ultrabooks - series 9 and UX31). You need to spend some more money and get the business range from Dell etc to do that.
 
I did this, PC to iMac back to PC, now back to iMac :D

But I also now want another PC, but accepted that I will keep my iMac as well to end this ridiculous cycle
 
Amp34 said:
Depends what you mean by original. For example 2010 was the year of the tablet before apple announced their iPad...;)
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Apple are cautious. They're often never first to get a product to market. They want to make what the think is the best. The iPhone arrived after other touch screen phones, the ioad after other tablets, and so on.

Efour said:
Im a 99% windows man, i simply cant function without 2 mouse buttons. how silly is that ?
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Erm, they've had multi button support in OSX for years with the new mouses and trackpads having advanced gesture support.
 
Brad-York said:
If you buy dual boot & a copy of windows for a mac can you sell it if i dont like it, I mean sell the windows license and dual boot license?
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Dual boot license? No such thing exists. You have a Windows licence. You can sell that (plus any media you may have) but obviously you can't keep Windows installed.
 
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