What made you go over to the dark side?

one of my mates had an old g4 powerbook and several consultants that i deal with through work have had various iterations of the macbook pro.

whilst i was exclusively a windows user i struggled with osx because i only knew 'the windows way' but i was always impressed with the hardware.

i ended up going from windows > ubuntu > osx. using ubuntu in between somehow made the transition to osx extremely easy. i use an april 2010 13" mbp.

i still use ubuntu on my pc workstation, but when that is due for renewal it will be replaced by an imac.

managed to get the girlf off windows too, put ubuntu on her laptop. when it dies it will most probably be superseded by my mbp and ill then upgrade.

overall i just find the mix of hardware and software a nicer experience to own and use. would i go back to a windows based computer - no way!

yes, it was an expensive purchase - but it's a premium product. i had only been using my mbp for a few minutes when the cost of it simply melted away.

i caught myself saying 'im not paying xxx for this piece of **** laptop when for a couple of hundred more i could get you a mac' to the girlf just the other day.

for the record, im still a windows/linux/osx user on a daily basis. i even have windows in vm's on osx! i just prefer the hardware and osx for my own personal use.

within a couple of weeks of owning the mac, i also bought an iphone 4. im equally impressed with this device.
 
Similar story here, use a windows based PC at work which I hate.

At home I have the Imac for games / general workhorse.

I've just bought a Macbook for well needed a laptop and the macbook for the extra money was well better.

Also have an Iphone 4 which I got just after Imac and don't regret it.

Lastly for Games I bought myself an Xbox and a 32" HDMI TV does me.
 
I made the switch to macs after so many custom builds that the money I was putting in to them was getting out of hand, I was pretty much upgrading CPU's and GPU's with a new mobo every 8 month for very little benefit, I had always fancied a mac so i made the decision to get a top end iMac 24 inch, I have never regretted the purchase and will never go back to a pc or windows again that's for sure
 
steveo said:
I made the switch to macs after so many custom builds that the money I was putting in to them was getting out of hand, I was pretty much upgrading CPU's and GPU's with a new mobo every 8 month for very little benefit, I had always fancied a mac so i made the decision to get a top end iMac 24 inch, I have never regretted the purchase and will never go back to a pc or windows again that's for sure
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Surely you could have just stopped upgrading so frequently?
 
I wanted a laptop with fantastic battery life, good sized screen, top build quality, and reasonable specs to boot. The MB 13" gave me all that so I gave it a whirl.

Two years later, no complaints from me. OSX keeps me from gaming on it as it's my work machine.
 
I started off on a Mac then when it broke we didn't know what to do and learnt windows (exchanged the mac for a windows pc with windows 3.1) I had a old macbook pro given to me a few years ago but it was torn up pity badly and recently decided to get a Mac Mini for xmas as a work / media centre computer xD but I will keep my pc for gaming!
 
Just making the leap to the darkside now.
Ordered a 27" i5 from the refurb store. Mainly for the 1gb graphics card. Going to be doing lots of Lightroom stuff and fed up with windows at home. Use it all day at work and had enough.
Plus ive got iphone, ipad, Apple TV(MK1) so might as well go the whole hog.
 
not really "gone to the dark side", got the missus a 15" macbook pro unibody and i must say i do love it. the pc i have upstairs is still my pride and joy but for browsing in the arm chair and silent running its a joy to use, the multitouch pad is just awsome for navigation etc.

could never drop windows completely but i do enjoy having the best of both worlds.
 
For me the path to moving to the Mac was quite a convoluted one and started off with me breaking the EULA quite seriously! I like to experiment and some time ago I force installed Tiger into a VM which was quite tricky to do and once I'd done it, I really didn't know what to do with it. I fancied a Mac Mini but without the experience of having used OS X, I wasn't really prepared to stump up the cash for one so I deleted the VM and put it all on the back burner.

Sometime after that, my boss at work (who is a Mac user) had been looking into hackintoshes and had discovered that some laptops could easily run OS X. He tasked me with trying to install Leopard onto a Dell laptop and I spent three days at work doing that. It all worked and he took it home for the weekend to try it out. In the meantime I'd done some more research into hackintoshes and discovered that the PC I'd built specifically for Vista comprised some very compatible hardware and so I plugged a new hard drive into my PC and installed Leopard 10.5.2 onto it. It took less than two hours! I even bought a retail copy of Leopard.

In the past, I've tried other OSs but they've never lasted for more than a few days on my computer and I've always ended up back with Windows. OS X was different. I liked the way it looked, I liked the way it worked and I very quickly became productive using it. I searched and found equivalents to the Windows programs I was using. I was like a kid with a new toy.

I ran the hackintosh for a couple of months with no problems. I was able to update it, it ran like an absolute dream and I loved it.

I soon decided that I was going to buy a Mac. A Mac Mini wouldn't be powerful enough, I didn't want an iMac due to the lack of expandability so a Mac Pro was the only option. I started saving up for one and within a short period of time I'd arranged to sell my PC to my brother and had raised the extra cash to buy one via a student friend with HE discount.

Totally by chance I noticed that someone in these forums was selling a nearly new Mac Pro and had been trying to sell it for a while despite having dropped the price to an absolute bargain figure. I contacted him and arranged to go collect it a couple of days after with a bundle of cash in my hands. On the way home from collecting it, I stopped at the Apple store in Lakeside and picked up an 8800 graphics card and an AppleTV with the money I'd saved and I ordered an extra 8Gb RAM once I got home.

Since then I've ended up with a few more Apple products. Six months after getting the Mac Pro I bought myself a Macbook Pro which I sold when I imported an iPad from the USA. I replaced my old router with an Airport Extreme and then supplemented that with a dual radio 2Tb Time Capsule when they were introduced. My kids and my wife all have various assorted iPods and I replaced the 'family' PC with a Mac Mini just after Christmas.

I use a Windows PC at work but everything at home is now Apple.
 
I had at the time an AMD FX CPU / DUAL GFX PC. It was then I for whatever reason decided to get a Mac Mini G5. Thought it was amazing but I hardly used it.

I then sold it, stripped down my PC and sold it and bought the first INTEL iMac, 20".

It was OUT OF THIS WORLD, form, function, a billion less wires, all-in-one and extremely sleek looking.

But it was also the software, what annoyed me most of all about Widows (at the time ;) ) is if you had bought a licensed copy of Windows XP in all its glory, once installed what could you do?

You certainly couldn't play a simple DVD, you didn't really have a photo/video suite. On Tiger however everything was included, including iLife which I've used from the first day to the current, I love it its what Windows missed but hurrah it has caught up now.

The clean look, the hassle free installation (although to begin with it was kinda strange it was so simple). The lack of any Anti-Virus.

I dunno, maybe I sound fanboy'ish but it seemed you could actually DO STUFF from the get go without buying extra software.

About 10 different systems later I'm back on a Mac Mini.
 
glitch said:
Partly because of many years spent suffering as tech support during the day and repeatedly coming home to a computer that would throw a wobbler for no apparent reason. Eventually you get tired of it all and want something that just works.

That'll no doubt enrage all the fanboys, but in all the time I've owned a Mac it's never, ever, skipped a beat. Not once.
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This is the exact same reason I made the switch, 2+ years and it has never once let me down.
 
About 4 weeks back my 24" monitor died on me, went along to local retail park store as I needed a replacement that day. Could not see a sutable replacement for what had been an excellent display and was about to leave when I saw the Macs out of the corner of my eye.

I had been reading in this forum for some months about Macs and thought I'd go over and have a play with one or two of them. One hour later I had completely fallen for the 21.5" iMacs display quality and overall feel of the system so came out of the shop with one, complete with the 3 year warranty and Office 11.

C/C was a bit sad, :confused: but I was over the moon with my new toy. Still got a mountain to climb regarding new system, finding the different ways of doing things compered to Windows but absolutely enjoying every moment of it. I don't know if it's better than XP or Win7 but even with this short amount of use I can tell it's certainly at least as good and I don't regret the outlay one little bit, everything just oozes with a quality feel. :)
 
i wanted a laptop for using when in bed and if im out about. just general web use and maybe a bit of wow/football manager.

since i had an iphone i decided to go for a macbook.

so far cant fault it, i like how easier it is to connect things like cameras and to networks etc. no faffing.

but i still need a win pc as my main pc, as i no the OS so well and upgrading to me is simpler.
 
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