[palmerizedCaddis]

An unusual post, folks rarely brag about contacting social diseases. Does your significat other know youare infected with apple cod rot?

Caddis the Younger

[Swordmaker]

A long time PC user takes a challenge to use a Mac as his sole computer for one month and the inevitable happens... He's a Mac user now, wondering why he resisted so long! PING !

Please!
No Flame Wars allowed!
Discuss hardware.
Don't attack people!

Apple Mac Switcher Ping!

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

[CaspersGh0sts]

At nearly double the price, he’s welcome to it.

I’ll stick with Windows 7.

[Moose4]

Nothing wrong with Macs or Mac apps at all—the price point is a killer though. I can put together just as good a Windows machine as a given Mac for about 60% of the price.

I don’t doubt that OS X is “better” than W7 (I’m still running Vista x64 personally). It’s just not worth several hundred extra dollars to get the same performance.

}:-)4

[Mr. Blonde]

500GB solid state drive? That costs more by itself than the base MBP.

[JoeProBono]

[RachelFaith]

Yep!

There is a REASON that PC Magazine once had MAC as their PC of the year.

Of course they took such a huge hit in emails and cancellations from their PC subscribers that they never did it again.... but... the stats haven’t changed.

Mac is still cheaper, and more effective than ANY comparable PC.

[dartuser]

If the Mac wasnt so pricey more people would buy them. You can get a laptop for half the price and that is the determining factor for many people.

I wrote my thesis on a Mac, at the time it was the only computing platform that offered WYSIWYG equation editing. But when I went into industry there was not a Mac to be found. Fast forward 20 years and I look around the engineering building here ... and I still see no Macs.

I maintain it is not because they are not good machines, they clearly are ... they are priced 2x what they should be.

[Clara Lou]

After 14 years of using both Mac (work) and PC (home), I opt for PC’s any time I need a new computer. Macs are nice, but I cannot see myself spending money on one. They’re just not that great.

[PA Engineer]

I’m typing this on my brand new spiffy MacBook Pro 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 with 8GB RAM, with a 500GB solid state hard drive.

The author of course is bragging but there is much to be said about replacing the travel computer with the iPad and using the new Pro for crunching. I can only imagine the speed of VIs from LabView on this thing.

I also wonder if DMA buffered waveforms are even necessary with a SSHD. The library of generated tests would increase based on storage without the DMA overhead.

I like the Air, however I may have to relegate it to a field only computer.

[dfwgator]

My thought is to get a Mac Mini, and simply access it via my Windows 7-based laptop via VNC. Has anyone else done that, and would it be worth it?

[Logic n' Reason]

This is exactly what happened to both my mom and one of my younger brothers.

I wonder how long I can hold out?

I'm about to acquire an Android wireless unit too!!!

[astyanax]

So the author not only has a Macbook Pro “(an older model from about 18 months ago)” but also an iPhone and iPad.
Yet he’s a long time Windows user who was “won over”...
That’s humorous.

[poindexters brother]

I recently picked up a used Mac Mini (1.83 GHz core-2 duo, 4GB RAM, 500 GB hard drive) on EBay for a special project I was starting. Upon using it I found it was substantially faster than my PC (which has a fast 4-core 3.2GHZ processor, 4GB RAM, fast SATA drives, etc). At that point I figured that since I was going to need to go through some pain to move to Windows 7 from my XP PC, why not go through the pain and switch to a Mac. So I did.

Now, after several months I have found 2 things that the PC does better than the Mac:

1. Quicken
2. Webcams

Everything else I did on the PC: MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, video editing (vacation footage, etc), photo editing, photo effects (photo mosaics, panoramas), web design/development, and so on - I can do on the Mac - and it boots to a ready-to-use state in 90 seconds.

Just my experience - “your milage may vary”.

[ArrogantBustard]

OS Wars are always amusing ... Hmmm ...

RT11, VAX/VMS, MVS, VM, CP/M, MS-DOS, PC-DOS, TRS-DOS, Xenix, Irix, SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, Linux, OS/2, Apple-DOS, MacOS, Windows ...

Geesh ...

[Gay State Conservative]

I bought Beta.Therefore,I’ll never even *consider* buying Mac.There are many reasons for that decision but the one I’ve mentioned is good enough all by itself.

[shotdog]

To Free Republicans: I toldja. sd

[13foxtrot]

I am a double switcher.

During my software developer years I went from windows to linux. When in law school I used Linux on a Toshiba laptop.

Then switched to a used G4 PowerPC powerbook - it was great. After a couple of years (power connector failure on the Apple) so I switched back to a $600 Lenovo laptop running Vista/Windows.

I enjoyed being back on Windows but after 13 months the laptop failed (hinge/connector issues).

So now I am back to Apple with a MacBook Pro 13” and happy.

The Windows laptops are crap for durability. Windows 7 and OS X are both good operating systems but nothing compares to the durability of Apple laptops. They will last years.

I didn’t really plan on getting an Apple but seeing them more or less side-by-side with the Windows laptops at Fry’s convinced me to return to the Family.

(I use OpenOffice so MS Office is not an issue. Though I do wish there was a Adobe Acrobat Standard for OS X.)

[rmlew]

That $3,600 notebook better work flawlessly.
http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MC373LL/A?mco=MTc0Njg1ODE

[Tribune7]

I’ve found peace and happiness with iWork as a replacement for Microsoft Office

Now, that one I find difficult to believe.