Hi - this is my first post.
I'm an old pc dog. That is, I had a 286, a 386, a 486, a pentium, on and on - thru the years, culminating in an i7 Dell with Windows 7. Needless to say, I have a LOT of experience running a PC.
So I see the gorgeous MAC display that the graphic artists at work always prefer, and I've heard how a MAC can do ANYTHING a PC can do, only faster, safer, and better. And my Dell is functioning perfectly but I figure oh what the hell and go and buy a new 27" i7 iMac with all the upgrades. And it is a thing of beauty. An expensive thing of beauty, but a thing of beauty.
Now, the first thing I find, is that replacing all those PC apps that I've been using for years (Paint Shop Pro, MS Access, Word and Excel, etc) is either going to be impossible or will put me in the poor house (Adobe wants something like $1800 for their CS6 package - more than I paid for my first car and getting MS Access on the MAC is going to be a discouraging, futile exercise in frustration ). Then, there are the differences in operating the thing (I am getting the hang of it) but everything takes me sooooooooo long. Dragging the cursor from one corner of this enormous screen to the other is like driving from NY to CA. So I have my PC set up right next to my MAC because I don't have all night to get my work done.
I always heard/felt/understood that a PC is for programmers and a MAC is for artists. Will, I'm a little (or a lot) of both.
Yes, this MAC is a museum worthy piece of aesthetics, but but if I have to get some work done (or actually, get anything done) I go straight to my PC and then play with the MAC after I've accomplished what I needed to do - on the PC. I watched my 14 day window of opportunity to return the iMac dwindle to nothing so now return is out of the question.
On a desert island with only 1 computer? PC is the obvious choice.
Please reassure me that I haven't wasted a slew of money on nothing, and I will grow to love this MAC and feel comfortable in my decision to "come over to the dark side".
Thanks
I'm an old pc dog. That is, I had a 286, a 386, a 486, a pentium, on and on - thru the years, culminating in an i7 Dell with Windows 7. Needless to say, I have a LOT of experience running a PC.
So I see the gorgeous MAC display that the graphic artists at work always prefer, and I've heard how a MAC can do ANYTHING a PC can do, only faster, safer, and better. And my Dell is functioning perfectly but I figure oh what the hell and go and buy a new 27" i7 iMac with all the upgrades. And it is a thing of beauty. An expensive thing of beauty, but a thing of beauty.
Now, the first thing I find, is that replacing all those PC apps that I've been using for years (Paint Shop Pro, MS Access, Word and Excel, etc) is either going to be impossible or will put me in the poor house (Adobe wants something like $1800 for their CS6 package - more than I paid for my first car and getting MS Access on the MAC is going to be a discouraging, futile exercise in frustration ). Then, there are the differences in operating the thing (I am getting the hang of it) but everything takes me sooooooooo long. Dragging the cursor from one corner of this enormous screen to the other is like driving from NY to CA. So I have my PC set up right next to my MAC because I don't have all night to get my work done.
I always heard/felt/understood that a PC is for programmers and a MAC is for artists. Will, I'm a little (or a lot) of both.
Yes, this MAC is a museum worthy piece of aesthetics, but but if I have to get some work done (or actually, get anything done) I go straight to my PC and then play with the MAC after I've accomplished what I needed to do - on the PC. I watched my 14 day window of opportunity to return the iMac dwindle to nothing so now return is out of the question.
On a desert island with only 1 computer? PC is the obvious choice.
Please reassure me that I haven't wasted a slew of money on nothing, and I will grow to love this MAC and feel comfortable in my decision to "come over to the dark side".
Thanks
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