Apple has won me over

[Afini]

Well, I was die hard anti-mac for the longest time. I refused to even use one until earlier this year, but I have to say the OS is rather charming and after using my friends for a couple weeks out of curiousity, and frustration with my decision to pay and upgrade to windows VISTA only to have it irritate me to no end, I have decided to join the ranks of mac users.

Figured I'd say hi, because this site has been quite the tool so far, and I'm sure I will be coming here with lots of questions as I learn a new OS that i've never had the pleasure of exploring.

/Salute!

 

[Melrose]

Welcome! I was much the same several years ago - I couldn't understand why Mac users were so staunchly 'pro' Mac. Needles to say, I think many share our story.

The forum here is friendly, opinionated, knowledgeable, and grammatically correct.

Enjoi.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Welcome to the forum, and to the world of Mac. I imagine you'll enjoy the experience of using a Mac - it's generally a form of pleasure rather than an experience of frustration and that helps to create the cheery tone that some describe as smug.

For my part, I'm a switcher - though I was never a rabid anti-Mac person, and now that I'm the happy owner of a stunning MBP, I find that while elements (quite a few) of the Windows world annoy/frustrate me, I don't hate it, and indeed still have to use it in some parts of my work life.

Cheers

 

[iShater]

Welcome aboard!

There are great guides created on the site to help you with different aspects of Macs, and the search tool is very powerful as a lot of people have questions that every new user has.

enjoy!

 

[Afini]

I find that while elements (quite a few) of the Windows world annoy/frustrate me, I don't hate it, and indeed still have to use it in some parts of my work life.

Cheers

Hehe, yeah, I don't plan on getting rid of my former desktop anytime soon, and honestly I'll probably always have a windows platform around for when I need it. But its time to have a mac as well .

And thanks for the warm welcome everybody!

 

[Melrose]

Hehe, yeah, I don't plan on getting rid of my former desktop anytime soon, and honestly I'll probably always have a windows platform around for when I need it. But its time to have a mac as well .

And thanks for the warm welcome everybody!

Ha! I feel your pain, but there's hope even for that: I had a Dell laptop and Dell tower, both of which went the way of the Sega. I've got XP installed as a Virtual Machine so I can still do all my testing but don't need to waste space with junk I don't use from week to week... This way, even when I'm using Windows I'm still using Mac if you get my drift. I look cool regardless of the OS at hand.

 

[Afini]

Ha! I feel your pain, but there's hope even for that: I had a Dell laptop and Dell tower, both of which went the way of the Sega. I've got XP installed as a Virtual Machine so I can still do all my testing but don't need to waste space with junk I don't use from week to week... This way, even when I'm using Windows I'm still using Mac if you get my drift. I look cool regardless of the OS at hand.

I've pieced together all my own desktops since I got into computers, thats half the reason I'll always have a windows desktop, I like the hands on approach, but the Macs just look like too much fun for me to pass any longer .

I'm a pretty big gamer too, so I'll use windows for some of them too, though Blizzard is one of my favorite companies and they are really mac friendly.

 

[Galley]

Welcome to the family!

 

[saxman]

Welcome! I kept a Windows computer around for a while too, but used it less and less after a while

 

[doubleohseven]

Glad to hear that you made the sensible choice in computing.

Welcome to the club.

 

[0098386]

Cappn we got another.

But yea I was in the same boat too. Hated Macs for years (mostly for OS8 and 9). Played with OSX on an eMac and a few weeks later had ordered my first Mac (Powerbook!).