Things every Windows to Mac switcher should know upfront

Mac Daily News ^ | Saturday, March 07, 2009 - 09:59 AM EST

[Swordmaker]

Got someone thinking about switching from Windows to a Mac? Let them read this... PING!

Windows to Mac Switching Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Rippin]

Microsoft copied Apple’s Mac, but couldn’t copy exactly due to legal concerns, so they made everything upside-down and backwards.

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Not exactly. On the application side, Microsoft made Mac products very early on and did very well with the Mac interface they ‘got it’ with early offerings of Excel and WOrd on the Mac.

THEN, when Microsoft went to the GUI on the PC (Windows) they didn’t use all those savvy folks from their Mac division to run the show. Not sure why.

[Spirochete]

OSX is okay, but Finder is a laughingstock, it sucks big wind. Why can't Apple get it together with Finder?

If you're at your wits end with Finder, check out the vastly superior Path Finder, at www.cocoatech.com

[SkyDancer]

The thing that stopped me from going Apple was software. You go to a store and 90% is PC and the rest Mac .... plus you have to go to Apple for hardware, a PC anywhere and cheaper. Then too, in all movies that show Mac computers and the people are trying to do something really fast it show the Mac plodding along ...re:Office Space for one ....

[MAD-AS-HELL]

this is all BS. Everyone knows that Windows 7 will save us all!

[pointsal]

I never really figured out where things (files and folders) were located until I got pad and paper and started drawing the directory tree. Boy, I got DESKTOP AND DOCUMENTS really (REALLY) scrambled. It is a learning curve.

[ThreePuttinDude]

Seeing as how this seems to be a computer related thread,
I need help with my laptop settings.

I just bought a new laptop with vista home.

I can’t make the screen saver engage. I’ve done all of the
select, apply, OK deals.

I’ve reset the timer to several different settings, and
it still refuses to engage the screen saver.

HELP, I’m going nucking futz here...

[HangnJudge]

OSX is okay, but Finder is a laughingstock, it sucks big wind.

To be completely re-written in OS 10.6

http://www.appleinsider.com/print/08/10/17/apples_snow_leopard_to_sport_cocoa_finder_and_imageboot.html

Apple next-generation Snow Leopard operating system will introduce a massive re-write of the Mac OS X Finder and debut a new feature called ImageBoot, AppleInsider has learned.

[Frantzie]

More like Apple ripped off Xerox Windows and them MSFT did the same thing.

My iPod is highly overrated and overpriced. Anyone know if Mac emulation programs for running Windows programs on a Mac work well? Do you have to buy a copy of Windows for the Mac?

[dennisw]

This shiite is gay (or the writer is) I’ll stick with XP and Vista

[martin_fierro]

Going contrary to popular advice, which recommends running the new Mac and the old PC side-by-side for a while...,

Geez, I'd love to, but my last remaining Win box's registry got inexplicably hosed. Not even system restore works.

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Mac Pro, here I come.

[GOPPachyderm]

ping

[Freedom2specul8]

Thank you SO MUCH! We are planning to switch this year, if all goes as planned and do want to be prepared.

Would you mind adding me to your ping list?

[romanesq]

Love how the new Apple OS X releases always make it not only faster but great new features. It’s also so easy to upgrade without wiping a hard drive to smithereens.

Just another thing to love.

The new Finder should be a nice improvement with the new OS release.

(And software is so easy to get, even online - who needs a store for that?)

[Minn]

he admitted there was still much to learn about his newly adopted Apple Mac OS X operating system and wrote that Windows had made him "too stupid to use Macs." Don't worry, it wears off; you won't be a Microsoft Windows dullard forever.

Macs are just machines, and nice ones. Mac users, on the other hand, can really be twits. You like your machine. We're happy for you. Why the constantly need for validation?

[tubebender]

I was doing a search on Snopes tonight about Tiger Woods speech and I don't know what I clicked on but I got a PC spam virus fix that froze my iMac and I had to do a hard shut down to clear it. I was tired and didn't make note of anything. I'm running 10.5...

[Wooly]

Windows 7 will be outstanding, that is if they keep it like the beta version.
There is only one problem with Apple, they screw you on the price! If I were to duplicate the computer configuration that I am on to a Mac Pro the price would be $3449. The computer I am on cost me less than $1500 to build.
I have built all of my on computers and in total over the last 10 years I have built about 500 computers for people. I stay abreast of the newest hardware and I can tell you that the Apples are way over priced given the hardware used.
While Apple lovers do not like to hear it, most people are better off with Windows based PC’s since they use them at work in the majority of cases. Plus if you are handy with a screw driver you can build a high performance PC for way less money then upgrade it as newer hardware comes down in price, thus keeping it current.

[Aliska]

I'm going to transition to an imac, should be here by the end of next week. Prices are better now, got a huge monitor and 4 gb of RAM and 650 hard drive which I need for my photos and Photoshop, would have preferred two internal hd's.

Also I have a box of VIN Fusion 2 so I can run my Windows apps. I expect it to be a nightmare getting it all installed, configured, transferred, up and running and the learning curve.

I don't know what I'll do if I don't like it. My old computer should be good for awhile, but it was time to upgrade rather than wait for the inevitable crash. Windows is a pain, but I didn't want Vista and am used to the hassles.

You can put me on your ping list, please, because I'm probably going to have to learn a lot. I do not want to close windows on the upper left-hand corner.

[RegulatorCountry]

Xerox Windows? No such animal. Microsoft ripped off Apple, with the undisclosed-settlement-amount settled lawsuits to prove it.

You don’t need to emulate Windows on newer Macs, you can boot from either Windows or OS X. Other than old software, I don’t know why you’d want to do that, but do it you certainly can.