What made you go over to the dark side?

koolpc said:
Tempted to try Mac but costs a lot
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Yes they do, but at least in my opinion they are more than worth the premium price.

kristmace said:
I'm intrigued by Macs, but it does always come back to price for me (Yorkshireman - tight!). A mbp costs about twice what a similar specced Dell XPS costs.

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dell...S&cid=41147&lid=1069636&acd=23975883824506283

http://store.apple.com/uk/configure/MC372B/A?mco=MTc0Njg5ODc
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They're not the same though. :)
 
My wife has had a Powermac for working at home for several years. Last year it finally broke and she got an iMac 21” to replace it. While I never really got on with the Powermac, I simply loved the iMac. Around the same time I needed a new laptop and when a very cheap, immaculate, MBP 13 came up in the MM I had it. I’d been considering them for some time and the main reason was that they are one of the few laptops able to drive my dual DVI Dell 30” screen. I also had a netbook and simply wasn’t using it because while it was small, it really lacked the power to be useful. The MBP 13 ticked all boxes... looks great, lovely to use, very good battery life, small enough to be portable, can be docked to my 30” screen when at home.

As a laptop I really think they can’t be matched. The screen is lovely (if a little low resolution), the backlit keyboard is great, and the absolute killer is the touchpad which no other laptop manufacturer can match.

When my Windows desktop failed I couldn’t be bothered to fix it for a while as it was watercooled and therefore a hassle to strip it down. So I usd the MBP as my main machine until I got around to it. Surprisingly it handled the 30” screen very well indeed. But being the relatively low-end 2.26gh dual core, with 2gb RAM and onboard graphics, it simply wasn’t a match for my quad core 8gb machine with a GTX 260 and I now use the two machines in parallel.

However, I’ve noticed that Ram for the MBP really has fallen in price so I’m tempted to whack it up to 8mb and try to ditch the Windows machine again. I don’t game anymore so I only needed the extra power for having lots of browsers, word, development tools, etc, open at the same time. The MBP with more RAM may achieve that and I’ll probably try it. I’m slightly tempted to give my MBP to my daughter and get a new MBP 15 i7 with 8gb and GT 330, then sell my desktop components and dock the MBP 15 to my screen. But I think I’d miss the extreme portability of the 13.
 
I'm actually in the process of building a gaming PC.

I want an iMac, but then the way I see it.. I can have a gaming PC and a MBP which will give me the best of both worlds. This isn't to say I've "gone back" to PCs in general, but rather a statement that there's always a machine for a purpose and I don't have the need for a massive iMac, just to browse the net :)

..I'll probably get one in the future though! ha!
 
My first mac was a Powermac 6100/66Mhz bought back in 95.

Then bought a Power Mac G4 400 Mhz in 99.

Currently now have an iMac 27" i5.

Might be worth mentioning I have been working in the publishing trade for 16 years so I'm used to working with macs.

Plus I have my pc for gaming.
 
Using my Mums I-Mac now she bought for herself. I must admit I love how I just gout it out of the box for her, set it up with a few clicks and it was done. The Wireless keyboard, mouse and Monitor are also very impressive. Although trying to learn Safari after Chrome is a bit of a struggle :D
 
always hated all things apple. till my sis got an iphone 2g, she didnt know how to set it up so i had acouple of days play with it. and the browsing was far far better than on my dell x51v pda at the time. i got the iphone by the time the 3g came out.
 
I've had Macs since 1993 when I got a Classic II (which I ran for seven years before the screen gave up the ghost). I've had a original 15" flat panel iMac since they were released which stills works but was retired about two years ago (still working). In the last few days I updated with a Mac Mini and a rather splendid 27" Apple Cinema Display. I'm a dual user as I also run PCs but bought my first well after I had been running Macs (first PC in 2005).
 
Just got round to setting up the imac today.
Very nice indeedy. Small keyboard my get swapped for a full size since SWMBO will complain when she's doing her spreadsheet work.
Need to sort out lightroom and itunes and then should be happy for now.
 
Got given a MacBook Pro from work for building an iPhone app, used OSX as my primary OS for 6 months, didn't understand the hype, went back to Windows. Only booted OSX a few times since then to maintain the iPhone app.
 
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