[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.

[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...

[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.

------->

Mac Pro, here I come.

[GOPPachyderm]

ping

[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...

[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.

[GOPJ]

I’m sitting here with Vista - I am soooooo jealous.

[SunkenCiv]

Windows-only sufferers have been steeped in the warped world of "upside-down and backwards fake Mac" for up to well over a decade. It'll take you a bit of time to unlearn poorly-conceived UI kludges that Microsoft's imposed upon you. Back in 2005, SearchSecurity.com's Winn Schwartau explained the issues of switching from an inferior OS with a mishmash UI to a superior OS designed by people who actually think and care about minute details when 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...

:')

[vox_freedom]

Thanks for the
!

[BobbyT]

[Pessimist]

Shouldn’t this be posted in religion?

[FlyingEagle]

Thanks for the good article. I bought my first mac in 1984 and first pc same year - have had both pretty much all the time since. Current personal pc is a macbook pro, love it, but I have to have a Vista machine to run certain professional software. MS is high maintenance. And of course the neanderthals at the office insist on Dell but at least they gave me an i-phone. If I had to choose only one platform it would be mac.

[Redbob]

" Apple Mac came first, Windows came a distant second."

Like the joke about the hot-air balloonist asking directions of the guy on the ground:

What you say is true, but not particularly useful.

[LifeComesFirst]

They forgot “you’ll have to give up on gaming forever.”

That’s why a desktop running Linux on one hard drive/partition and Windows on t’other (just for gaming) is the best rig. :-)

How often do Apple fans mention that Apple DID NOT invent the GUI, that Apple made major blunders throughout the 80s and 90s that put them in a distant second (it wasn’t mean ol’ MS), and that Apple would be a footnote in computer history right now had MicroSoft not bailed them out when Steve Jobs came back? Not that I have any animosity either way, I actually think the Windows/Mac wars are stupid. I just think that Apple constantly gets a pass on valid criticism from its rabid fanbase.