Switching to Mac from MS

fanger · 17 Oct 2008 at 23:21

You know, I've been using PCs for nearly twenty years and having finally made the move over to MAC -
I'm genuinely wondering where my head has been for all those years.

I'll tell you;

In MSCONFIG.EXE to try and try and try to resolve hardware and software issues on startup,

In ctrl + alt + del; invoking Task manager to stop this app, restart that app, see what app is causing the freeze before the crash, etc,etc ad infinitum...

In really shoddy interfaces of windows that don't really have a relationship with one another, they just 'co-excist' - not really 'joining-up' computing at all.

Here, on day two, of using the new MacBook pro and I find myself feeling absolutely liberated from the confines and confusion and sheer annoyance that was ms windows.

I just wish I'd done it sooner.

I'm not a newbie - I'm MSDN, Beta'd the hell out of Vista, project managed a team on divising compression utils for MP10, etc. - but those days are over. Sorry Bill. You've retired from MS and so, have I.

I am MAC.

Have a nice day.

FANGER

Prime · 17 Oct 2008 at 23:28

Yeah, wait till you get the infinite spinning beach ball followed by the familiar power button off/on. Lack of certain tools/apps/features and the Apple way of doing things

theheyes · 17 Oct 2008 at 23:57

Is this THE new MacBook Pro? If so, you're lucky - I wish I started that high up the food chain. Mine was a lowly iBook.

Enjoy the honeymoon period. Little niggles will worm their way out of the woodwork over the coming weeks and months. For instance, I'd like to burst that spinning beachball with extreme prejudice when it appears. For some reason it annoys me a lot more than Windows simply seizing up.

The good thing about overcoming problems is getting to know the OS better. It’s not perfect, but it’s great. I have a Vista powerhouse as a work horse machine, but my laptop that I use daily (my “personal computer”) has been a Mac for the past 3 or 4 years and will continue to be in the foreseeable future.

Will_3rd · 18 Oct 2008 at 09:38

Another switcher hehe, I'm still stuck in limbo

iSam · 18 Oct 2008 at 12:49

Good move to come over to a Mac. It will take a bit of getting used to but a Mac does 'just work.'

Tute · 18 Oct 2008 at 13:38

I won't ever switch, sorry.

Windows is in my blood - it's the first OS i've ever used and upto this point, the only OS.

My machine at home is running Vista and that will never change. What I am looking forward to is learning more about Mac OS X, and how it works.

ca9phoenix · 18 Oct 2008 at 16:18

welcome to the Dark side, i switched a month or two ago and i won't be going back.

iMac here best desktop i have ever owned (and i had a quad core tri sli gaming monster before this!)

FishFluff · 18 Oct 2008 at 16:29

I'm going for Vista desktop and Mac laptop. I really like the design of the Apple laptops and quite frankly couldn't care less what OS it has since I'm only likely to browse the net and maybe a bit of coding on it.

The only thing I'm not looking forward to about it is people thinking I'm some kind of crazy Mac zealot who detests windows just because I've purchased an Apple product *sigh*

Hate · 18 Oct 2008 at 18:02

Tute said:
I won't ever switch, sorry.

Windows is in my blood - it's the first OS i've ever used and upto this point, the only OS.

My machine at home is running Vista and that will never change. What I am looking forward to is learning more about Mac OS X, and how it works.

Nothing like trying it out, eh

I only used windows till 5 years ago, now I don't use it at all. Linux and OS X sort me out a treat.

iSam · 19 Oct 2008 at 13:34

Hate said:
Nothing like trying it out, eh

I only used windows till 5 years ago, now I don't use it at all. Linux and OS X sort me out a treat.

Same, used Windows until two years ago, now have no use for it.

meghatronic · 19 Oct 2008 at 13:48

I seem to be the only person I know that uses mac and windows, interchangeably, almost simultaneously.

Macs annoy me more than Windows, but that's more the software than the OS.

theheyes · 19 Oct 2008 at 14:11

I use XP Pro at work, and at home I have a Vista desktop and a MacBook. Mac OSX is my OS of choice but to be honest there is not a lot in it - they all annoy me in different ways.

The three main plusses about OSX for me are the usability (expose), security (obscurity) and the general organisation of the OS in terms of file permissions and the way installations are handled.

Killa_ken · 19 Oct 2008 at 15:47

Just stay away from safari, although since I got more ram it's stopped crashing.

iSam · 19 Oct 2008 at 16:06

Killa_ken said:
Just stay away from safari, although since I got more ram it's stopped crashing.

Firefox is what I use.

fanger · 19 Oct 2008 at 20:40

FishFluff said:
I'm going for Vista desktop and Mac laptop. I really like the design of the Apple laptops and quite frankly couldn't care less what OS it has since I'm only likely to browse the net and maybe a bit of coding on it.

The only thing I'm not looking forward to about it is people thinking I'm some kind of crazy Mac zealot who detests windows just because I've purchased an Apple product *sigh*

weird...main reason for switching was vista: basically XP with the headache but in glass.