“After working on windows for 17 years, I bought my first MacBook Pro this last week. Love it. Can’t wait to move everything over and escape.”
Wouldn’t be in too much of a hurry. Lots of aps won’t run without Windows/IE. Plus, there are some real serious problems with macs that never seem to get any press. For example, a power cord that gets so hot it catches on fire and a keyboard that intermittantly won’t type keystrokes.
Color me underwhelmed.
You know..., it’s really funny about these “real serious problems” that some people come up with from time to time. I mean, I’ve had so many different Macintosh models over the years and haven’t been able to every get one to break down for me... what a deal.
In addition to that, I know a bunch of Macintosh users and I have yet to find one that I know how has every had a problem of the sort that some people seem to bring up from time to time.
I’ve had to replace a hard drive a couple of times, but that’s not the computer, itself and is no big deal (especially with constant backups).
I’m sure that there are *some people* who have had problems, but they are in such a minority, that they probably barely even reach a figure of 1/10 of 1 percent — total, if anything at all.
With all the Macs that I’ve had, I really don’t know what it is like to *ever* have a hardware problem...
Thanks for your comments. After 17 years of using windows in too many flavors (some of which sucked bad, most of which just sucked), I am underwhelmed by Microsoft’s ability to get things right even after three versions. Vista is the current example du jour.
So far, I have discovered an extremely stable operating system, applications that do the tasks I require, and the backup of VMFusion to run windows xp, if I run into any application that I “just have to have”. I will do my best to avoid those entirely. And I’m in no hurry. If I’m over in 30-45 days, I’ll be pleased.
I don’t know what to tell you about problems - like a bad power cord. Obviously, if you manufacture millions of anything, you will have some problems. I don’t see Apple as perfect, so I accept that. Microsoft is clearly not perfect either, so that argument falls flat with me.
On the other hand, I will never, ever, ever get back the thousands of hours of my only life that have been devoted to solving the problems Microsoft has created repeatedly through its failures and lousy systems.
To each his own.