Has your Mac ever saved or made your day?

[billyboy]

For instance, the Sleep function recently saved my race day plans.

I put my PB to sleep just before I went training. All the time i was out on the road I had it fixed in my stupid mind that I had left home at 1.30. When I got in at 5, I was totally gutted, as 3 and a half hours put me about 1 hour off the pace in my schedule. With three weeks to go, there was no point carrying on, as trying to make up that sort of deficit in that short time is not possible.

But later on, waking my PB from sleep, thank you thank you, thankyou, the shut-down time showed first in the menu bar - 2.30.

Back on track and so the pain continues! And time to sort out the stop watch function on my bike computer.

[Tiauguinho]

My Mac makes my day, everyday!

Every minute I spend of my life, working on it, I realise that I've made a wise choice, for a trouble-free system. It makes me proud of owning, what I consider, a piece of techonology Art.

[janey]

maybe...but os x ruined my day more
i got a kp today...and i forgot to save my work...three damned hours of work wasted...

[vniow]

I keep everything essential backed up on my iBook and its saved my ass more than a few times when Windows would screw up beyond repair...http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=251202

[bwawn]

Originally posted by übergeek
maybe...but os x ruined my day more
i got a kp today...and i forgot to save my work...three damned hours of work wasted...

Just curious, but...

Three hours working and never once the thought of saving your document came to mind?!

[TMA]

Alarm clock :) Having your favourite iTunes playlist start your day is fantastic :)

[chewbaccapits]

Originally posted by übergeek
maybe...but os x ruined my day more
i got a kp today...and i forgot to save my work...three damned hours of work wasted...
Sorry, but, thats your fault for not saving...Come on, that has to be on that back of your mind, ALWAYS!!!

[Doctor Q]

The frequency with which you save files or take backups depends on how compulsive you are and how valuable your data is to you. But it also depends on the perceived threat. I used to save much more frequently when I used Mac OS 7, 8, or 9 regularly. Now, under Mac OS X, I save less often simply because the O.S. so rarely crashes. Applications still crash, however, so obviously we should all be hitting that Command-S key.

Of course, Murphy's Law says that the more important the data, the more likely a crash (such as übergeek's kernel panic) is.

[tazo]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
The frequency with which you save files or take backups depends on how compulsive you are and how valuable your data is to you. But it also depends on the perceived threat. I used to save much more frequently when I used Mac OS 7, 8, or 9 regularly. Now, under Mac OS X, I save less often simply because the O.S. so rarely crashes. Applications still crash, however, so obviously we should all be hitting that Command-S key.

Of course, Murphy's Law says that the more important the data, the more likely a crash (such as übergeek's kernel panic) is.

when i am writing a document, I save about every other minute. I am just so used to the pc world :P which crashes without fail. I still save on my mac, just not every other minute.

My mac has saved my day many a time, however one recently was special :P I was burning a CD of music for a friend, and it was my last CD-R; I had no more money to buy new ones. I give it to him, he tries it out at my house on my PC, it doesnt read it. I pop it into my mac and it works. He wanted me to go like beg my parents for money to go buy new cd-r's. :D

[eyelikeart]

my Macs make my day every day :D

production design, graphic design, photography, music, internet b.s....I'd be lost without them... ;)

[iGav]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
my Macs make my day every day :D

production design, graphic design, photography, music, internet b.s....I'd be lost without them... ;)

I agree with you there... i couldn't do what I do without my Mac... ;)

That said, in OS9 I've had Mac's crash on me right in the middle of presenting and pitching to clients.... and that's when the gift of the gab comes in... not that I'm implying that I'm a bullshi**er or anything.... :eek: :eek: ;) :p

[gotohamish]

Originally posted by Tiauguinho
My Mac makes my day, everyday!

Every minute I spend of my life, working on it, I realise that I've made a wise choice, for a trouble-free system. It makes me proud of owning, what I consider, a piece of techonology Art.

I know what you mean - the comfort and security you get from the hardware and OS is unrivalled.

As for my experiences, I'm ever thankful for my late father, not only for having the 1st consumer Macintosh 128k delivered in the UK, and for buying dozens of Macs since then, to him buying me my Powerbook G4 from which I managed to make enough money from at art College making website to fund my travels and my degree, but also for enabling me to do work at my leisure and level that enabled me to be more comfortable in my course, and graduate with the 1st Class Fine Art degree that i got last summer.

The skills I've learnt have enabled me to use a technology to be happy in my work - seemingly a rare thing in the big bad world.

[Eniregnat]

My Mac has made and saved my day so many times that I have lost track of how many times it has blessed me.

Of note: I had a chemistry class and the book was not available on tape. It came with a CD copy of the book. My Mac read me the entire book. It read my notes to me in lab, and helped me compose my papers with out the use of a another person to check my work. I would not of passed, let alone aced, the class with out my iBook. My iBook gave me a level of autonomy that I didn’t have before.

It is the best computer I have ever owned!

[Flickta]

My PB G4 helped me to pass two exams.

Story is too long, but the result was awsome!

[vollspacken]

... every single day since I have my tiBook!!!

vSpacken

[billyboy]

Thanks for sharing your eulogies.

I just had my day made again. Until an hour ago I had never gone to the trouble of finding out how to play .avi and other "strange" format movies, and my PC friend/mac hater has been taking great delight offering me disc after disc of movie, knowing he was going to be told lamely, "I dont thnk I can play it on my Mac."

Well, I just found MPlayerOSX and after a quick drag and drop I am watching a movie in one corner, a couple of browsers open, the soundtrack blasting away and not a fan in earshot.

I feel so content! Out of interest what can his PC do to give him a glowy feeling ie something that he can do that my wondermac cant, or better than the Mac?

[5thorseman]

Never really had my day saved by my mac, but it's definitely made it a few times. Using OS X makes me feel creative, so I decided to make a webite (mysite (http://weblog.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk)) which was really good fun, made my day. :)

[MacFan25]

my mac makes my day everyday, too!

safari, itunes, and ichat can really help make someone's day! ;) :D

[janey]

Originally posted by bwawn
Just curious, but...

Three hours working and never once the thought of saving your document came to mind?!
hey i was multitasking hehe
i'm really bad at it too...so i didn't save it *cries*
nevertheless, i finished my project *phew*

[sparkleytone]

now that my summer job forces me to use the deadly combination of windows and lotus EVERY DAY, coming back home to the iBook is a breath of cool, clean air. it just FEELS right. doing IT work definitely pays good money, but after so long with my Macs and nothing else i just felt so DIRTY using windows. the inconsistency in the UI is enough to drive me batty.

[ibookin']

Originally posted by sparkleytone
now that my summer job forces me to use the deadly combination of windows and lotus EVERY DAY, coming back home to the iBook is a breath of cool, clean air. it just FEELS right. doing IT work definitely pays good money, but after so long with my Macs and nothing else i just felt so DIRTY using windows. the inconsistency in the UI is enough to drive me batty.

Now you know my pain. :(

[moose]

My Win 2k box at work self destructed in about as dramatic a fashion as possible by deleting 3 days of work and frying the motherboard.

Thankfully I had recently saved some of my work to the server. I told the IT guy I was going to bring in my 3 year old G4 running OS X from home. He just laughed, and deliverd the standard retort: you won't be able to hook into the network to get your files, you won't see the printers, you won't be able to work on your Office files, you won't be able to access web mail, and on and on...

Next day I hook up the computer and within 20 minutes I am back up and running, my Mac happily humming along making the scarred black chassis of the PC sitting next to it look all the more skeletal and impotent. :D

[bidge]

Originally posted by moose
My Win 2k box at work self destructed in about as dramatic a fashion as possible by deleting 3 days of work and frying the motherboard.

Thankfully I had recently saved some of my work to the server. I told the IT guy I was going to bring in my 3 year old G4 running OS X from home. He just laughed, and deliverd the standard retort: you won't be able to hook into the network to get your files, you won't see the printers, you won't be able to work on your Office files, you won't be able to access web mail, and on and on...

Next day I hook up the computer and within 20 minutes I am back up and running, my Mac happily humming along making the scarred black chassis of the PC sitting next to it look all the more skeletal and impotent. :D


you are such are legend, I hope the IT guy has been put in his place.

[tazo]

Am I the only one who thinks of Jimmy Fallons character on SNL "your average company computer tech" when anyone mentions an IT story? I always laugh at them, it makes people look so stupid. Many people unfortunately have the erroneous mindset that macs are incapable of doing anything and that there are "pc-only" networks.

[5300cs]

It hasn't really saved my day, but it lets me do things that pc notebooks couldn't fathom.

Like with my wireless modem, checking my email anywhere, surfing the web at coffee shops (Macrumors.com.. very cool :cool: ) making presentations on Keynote on the go, writing, etc.

And as I said before.. chicks dig 'em! (if I had a dime everytime I heard "it's so cute!" while looking at my lap;))

[tazo]

Originally posted by 5300cs
It hasn't really saved my day, but it lets me do things that pc notebooks couldn't fathom.

Like with my wireless modem, checking my email anywhere, surfing the web at coffee shops (Macrumors.com.. very cool :cool: ) making presentations on Keynote on the go, writing, etc.

And as I said before.. chicks dig 'em! (if I had a dime everytime I heard "it's so cute!" while looking at my lap;))

what kind of comp do you have 5300CS? because if they called your ol' 5300 'cute' they have incredibly low standards. lol.

[5300cs]

Sorry! -- I'm always with my iBook on the train. Had a girl last week on Friday with big hooters tell me it was real cute:p

Side note: I saw an auction the other day for a brand new battery for the 5300cs and almost got it, but decided against it. I'd love to play Specter on the subway, but $90 was a little too expensive for me. I'm a fan of the 5300cs case and style, and it was the first classic machine I bought. The passive matrix screen drives me nuts after a while, but have never had a detonating-battery problem so far .. hope it never happens: usually use it on my lap:eek:

[tazo]

Originally posted by 5300cs
Sorry! -- I'm always with my iBook on the train. Had a girl last week on Friday with big hooters tell me it was real cute:p

Side note: I saw an auction the other day for a brand new battery for the 5300cs and almost got it, but decided against it. I'd love to play Specter on the subway, but $90 was a little too expensive for me. I'm a fan of the 5300cs case and style, and it was the first classic machine I bought. The passive matrix screen drives me nuts after a while, but have never had a detonating-battery problem so far .. hope it never happens: usually use it on my lap:eek:

thats what I thought, since the powerbook and laptops before it were not umm very cute.

[mactastic]

My TiBook makes my day, but hasn't saved it yet 'cuz its so damn reliable. However, I have saved several other peoples day with it in my classes. We do alot of presentations with computer projectors, powerpoint, flash, director, etc. For some reason the PC laptops have terrible trouble connecting to the external projector, but my TiBook had no problems. Oh and the guy who brought his presentation in on a usb flash disk, and the instructors laptop was running NT which was not compatible. Plus people's jaws hit the floor the first time I used keynote. Oh what fun it is, even though they all refer to it as the "fruit computer" I get the last laugh. Plus I just open the case and boom, wakes up and ready to go. Are they just ignorant or do windows laptops not just go to sleep if you colse them? I'm always waiting for people to boot up their laptops. Strange.

[5300cs]

My stupid VAIO does that. I close the lid and it takes like 10sec+ to sleep. Or if I flick the power switch, xp comes in and takes over "saving your settings", which takes forever.:o

stupid thing... my iBook goes to sleep & wakes in no time. wish I could do that.

external monitor support is flawless too. even had it not work once, hit "detect displays" and it found the monitor in no time. I have serious doubts that windows could do that with a reboot:D

[ilben77]

Originally posted by 5300cs
It hasn't really saved my day, but it lets me do things that pc notebooks couldn't fathom.

Like with my wireless modem, checking my email anywhere, surfing the web at coffee shops (Macrumors.com.. very cool :cool: ) making presentations on Keynote on the go, writing, etc.

And as I said before.. chicks dig 'em! (if I had a dime everytime I heard "it's so cute!" while looking at my lap;))

But did you also get the chicks?:D
Trying to impress girls with a computer....:confused:

[tazo]

Originally posted by 5300cs

external monitor support is flawless too. even had it not work once, hit "detect displays" and it found the monitor in no time. I have serious doubts that windows could do that with a reboot:D

don't be a zealot. I plugged a 17'' CRT into my dad's Compaq EVO, with the same graphics card as the ibook, and it worked without rebooting, just plugged it in, hooked it up, and it turned on and mirrored the LCD display.

[billyboy]

Originally posted by tazo
don't be a zealot. I plugged a 17'' CRT into my dad's Compaq EVO, with the same graphics card as the ibook, and it worked without rebooting, just plugged it in, hooked it up, and it turned on and mirrored the LCD display.

Yeah I have been following a thread elsewhere about the 1600x1200 Sony 15@ screens - they are showing the good old Powerbook a clean pair of heels in the pixels department, and you just have to admit, in the computer game the Mac just cant be and isnt streets ahead of PCs in everything. A Mac fan was getting quite upset (unnecessarily) in his losing battle to win a failed argument

But the format of the PB is more DVD friendly!!!!! and quite a few nights I have been the bright eyed boy setting up a film on a bad TV night, and my PC head mates have been heard to murmur approval.

[JEdiBeavis]

I saved Christmas!


oh, wait, that was someone else.

[mim]

A few times Mac have saved the day for me by doing thigs that the PC's couldn't. For a couple of competitions at work, as a last resort I've turned to our older macs to import EPS's, or format & print a quark document - and had them work flawlessly and quickly where the higher spec PC's have just fallen over.

If you've ever worked on a huge competition, the you know that everything happens at the last minute, so you can't afford for anything to go wrong (not the least because no-one's had any sleep :rolleyes: ).

So yeah - for me Macs have literally saved the day, and help win 100 million pound competitions :)

[billyboy]

Originally posted by mim
A few times Mac have saved the day for me by doing thigs that the PC's couldn't. For a couple of competitions at work, as a last resort I've turned to our older macs to import EPS's, or format & print a quark document - and had them work flawlessly and quickly where the higher spec PC's have just fallen over.



So yeah - for me Macs have literally saved the day, and help win 100 million pound competitions :)

If you have won such big competitions cant you afford a newer Mac? :)

[mim]

Originally posted by billyboy
If you have won such big competitions cant you afford a newer Mac? :)

It's an argument that I've tried on my bosses a number of time :p

We did actually get some nice shiny new Mirror Doors. But the office IT guy wants to become a "PC" only office. Needless to say there's a bit of resistence to this....

Sometimes I just hate it when people don't understand :rolleyes:

[billyboy]

Originally posted by mim
It's an argument that I've tried on my bosses a number of time :p

We did actually get some nice shiny new Mirror Doors. But the office IT guy wants to become a "PC" only office. Needless to say there's a bit of resistence to this....

Sometimes I just hate it when people don't understand :rolleyes:

******* the IT guy's day and make your boss' day. show him this http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4795

cheers

[Schiffi]

This is more of an iPod story, but since it is still an Apple product I will tell it anyhow.

One day I decided to make OS9 and OSX seperate partitions. First I made a copy of OS9 on my iPod (for no particular reason) and backed up my files. After using this 3rd party app, I found out that the partions were not readable by OS9. I booted OS9 from my iPod and tried to fix the problem. However I somehow made OSX unable to boot. I was left then to reformat my machine. Luckily iPod was there to restore all my old settings/files/apps. We then celebrated with ice cream.

[Bengt77]

It was with a bit of foul playing for school, though. I was working in AutoCAD (for a project; had to design a mini autoped) and had just saved all my data. I copied it to my ZIP and deleted the files from the computer (a Compaq P3). What the ******? The PC crashed! Hoped everything was okay and went to the plot service but it turned out my ZIP had become unreadable. And that with the deadline being that very day and me having just erased all my data from the PC. Stupid, of course.

So I blamed it on my 'perception' that I would never give in to normalities of the Windows world of saving my data every minute and keeping at least three backups in as much different places. I said (explained in the evaluation included in my paper) that I was used to using a Mac and just would not belief that that (saving and backing up all the time) was the way it should be. Even went so far as saying I didn't use a PC that often (not true; I maybe even use them more often than my iMac at home, but who gives) and didn't know they could crash that easily. (What was I doing? I was copying, for Christ's sake!)

Luckily the tutor had a Mac at home too, and could see my point (and humor, hopefully). So my Mac didn't have to do anything with all this, but in the end it did save my day, since I got a 7 for the whole project. And that with the technical drawings usually percieved (by all the tutors at my study) as the most important of any (design) project.

:D

Can't remember any time my Mac directly saved my day, though.

:rolleyes:

[5300cs]

Originally posted by ilben77
But did you also get the chicks?:D
Trying to impress girls with a computer....:confused:

I'm married, so I didn't "get" any of the chicks. And I don't actively go around with my iBook trying to score. I just use it on the train (Keynote or Illustrator) and some chicks notice. Lucky I guess :D

I'd never use a laptop in the train back home; I'm sure someone would try to swipe it. :mad: