I am officially a Mac person now! GOODBYE PC

[Ron99]

Welcome to the light side of the force

[scherzo]

I have been doing "IT" for years.. put me through University doing on-site stuff.

I now teach computer studies.. and when I went to Mac.. I have to say that things seem to be pretty solidly thought out.

Welcome to the club.

[Funky_Fish14]

Congrats on the mac purchase!

I'll be getting a macbook pro for school right away... to try a mac out.(I've used macs often in the last couple years however). I've always been a PC owner, and my current machine(desktop) is a champ... I've never had problems. I love PC (But hate vista lol). Macs have some advantages, and I see their idea, but for daily functionality and schoolwork... PC is so simple and straightforward. All computers are great, you just have to use them properly, and for what they were designed to do.

[globaldesigns]

I myself have no interest in trying any Mac, but my friend loves his... He hates noise, and the MAC is near silent.

I can say they have some neat designs, all in the monitor, kinda cool... but not cool enough to make me switch.

Mac has 15% market share, which is good, and it will probably keep growing, making Microsoft change things themselves. Competition is always good.

I am just waiting for the virus/hackers to start going after the MAC, with their market share growing, it will be just a matter of time. Then even Mac users can't claim to be virus free. Please no flaming on this comment, it will eventually happen.

[StirCrazy]

I don't know my Vista desktop has run for two year with less than say 10 reboots and not a problem. windows 98, ME, and 2K really made the PC seam worse than it is, and added a level of difuculty to get things to work properly, Vista went a long long way to fixing that and windows 7 is way way better than vista.. MAC did a good job on creating a "computer for dummies" when 98, ME, ect were the PC operating systems and brought them selves out of the dark a little more, but there is still a long way to go for software support to catch up befor they will be main stream.

My aunt has a Mac and personaly I don`t like it but that could be cuz I am used to what I use.

Steve

[Veng68]

I'm going to get the 27 inch iMac desk top and dual boot it with Windows 7......... best of both worlds

Cheers,
Vic

[lastlight]

I don't really follow the whole war between mac and pc anymore. I was on the other side until only a few years ago. If mac really does have 15% now they have really made some tremendous leaps (nearly doubled) since I last heard the numbers.

I love not running a virus scanner (re: memory hog) but if mac had been the mainstream system I honestly believe the windows users would be the safer ones not vice versa.

I had forgotten all about the noise issue tho. I'm just used to barely hearing my computer but yeah that actually is a big plus to running a mac vs your average pc.

[globaldesigns]

Originally Posted by lastlight

I don't really follow the whole war between mac and pc anymore. I was on the other side until only a few years ago. If mac really does have 15% now they have really made some tremendous leaps (nearly doubled) since I last heard the numbers.

I love not running a virus scanner (re: memory hog) but if mac had been the mainstream system I honestly believe the windows users would be the safer ones not vice versa.

I had forgotten all about the noise issue tho. I'm just used to barely hearing my computer but yeah that actually is a big plus to running a mac vs your average pc.

I do love the Mac commercials, I just howl!

Now that is GREAT marketing.