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Have you gone back after going Mac?

Have you gone back after going Mac?

  • No, are you insane?

    Votes: 261 73.9%

  • Yes, because I had to.

    Votes: 19 5.4%

  • Yes, because I wanted to.

    Votes: 57 16.1%

  • I've never owned a Windows computer.

    Votes: 16 4.5%
  • Total voters
    353
I don't know what I'll do, I got my Mac a couple of years ago using the very generous UK student discount. Now the prices have risen dramatically whilst PCs have not. My MacBook probably has one more year in it before it needs replacing, by then I'll be working and so no more discount! I honestly can't decide whether Macs are worth it at full price, £1000 is a lot. Especially as I share one Mac and one iPad with my gf and use the iPad much more. It's not about affording it, it's about that feeling of being ripped off I don't like. Really don't know what to do!
 
JustMapIt said:
Truth is, Windows 7 is a pretty good OS. Microsoft learned some hard and harsh lessons with Vista and did a good job of cleaning up its act. Our experience has been that application developers have been sloppy with the transition from XP to Windows 7, and in particular the move from 32 to 64-bit platforms. This has caused a lot of implementations of Windows 7 to look bad, when it's really the application's fault (hello AutoDesk, you reading this?!)
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*Sigh* Autodesk..... That's actually an issue with giant companies and software made from code bloated that's been pieced together over a great number of years. They get to a point where they aren't really innovative anymore. Smaller companies innovate and the big ones either buy them out or license what they need.

Microsoft did do a nice job with Windows 7. It's a huge improvement over Vista. If Apple was ever going to leverage their way into really corporate environments, Vista would have been the time to do this. If Apple really does kill the mac pro I may end up back on Windows (I've been on a mac for the past 10 years).

kockgunner said:
I've actually had more problems with my Mac than any PC. I'm not trying to flame, but I had my old 2008 MBP replaced with a 2010 unibody because of a string of issues the last of which was that it wouldn't turn on. Little did I know that even though the machines are 2 years apart, they suffer from the same widespread issue of graphics problems (search for forums about the screen going black when using the discrete card).

Despite all this, Macs still feel more comfortable and natural for me to use. That must speak volumes about Windows :D (or about me :rolleyes:).
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Long term issues like that really suck :(. I am not sure how it would've slipped through that long. That just sounds ridiculous.
 
OllyW said:
Will you be changing your name to iWorkerUK? ;)
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Yes, in retrospect it was a poor name choice of username, just never expected to be here this long!

I may have to borrow from Douglas Adams for my sig shortly - "the 'n'th year on MacRumors for the increasingly inaccurately named iStudentUK".
 
iStudentUK said:
I don't know what I'll do, I got my Mac a couple of years ago using the very generous UK student discount. Now the prices have risen dramatically whilst PCs have not. My MacBook probably has one more year in it before it needs replacing, by then I'll be working and so no more discount! I honestly can't decide whether Macs are worth it at full price, £1000 is a lot. Especially as I share one Mac and one iPad with my gf and use the iPad much more. It's not about affording it, it's about that feeling of being ripped off I don't like. Really don't know what to do!
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During my years 'in the wilderness' as a PC owner I had a very nice IBM X-series Thinkpad (which was every bit as well made as the PowerBook I bought on my return to Apple gear).

I've just been checking out their prices. Amazing that you can buy a nice little i3 laptop from Lenovo for < £400.

Perhaps not as well specced as the old MacBooks, or quite as light as the MBA - but good enough to get the job done.
 
One of the things that may actually help the sale of Macs is the move towards cloud services and apps. It won't happen tomorrow, but if Apple is smart about things and cleans up it's currently convoluted iCloud implementation it could go a long way towards making the OS choice irrelevant to many users.

My wife teaches 5th grade. For years she was tethered to Windows because of her need for MS Office and a number of education-specific apps like gradebook and lesson plan management systems. However, her county dept. of education made the decision to move to cloud-based services. They started two years ago with Google Mail, then moved to web-based gradebook and lesson plan systems. This year they will migrate to Google Docs for document preparation and content distribution and sharing. This means the OS of the laptop she uses at home is far, far less important than it was just last year. That's why she'll be getting a MacBook Pro for Christmas (shhhh - don't tell her!).

If I was the board of education's IT director I'd still opt for Windows platforms; I have to spend my IT dollars (which are mostly taxpayer dollars) wisely. Windows systems are good enough and that leaves me more cash to put into network infrastructure upgrades, classroom presentation system upgrades (this is a market Apple really needs to get into) and other stuff.

While I don't manage the school system's IT department I DO manage my home IT department :D. I appreciate the design and attention to detail that goes into the hardware and OS of Apple products and can afford to upgrade my home systems to Macs where appropriate.
 
I have both. The only reason I got a mac in the first place is because of work. But my home desktop is a PC. And I run bootcamp on my macbook pro. There are things I like and dislike about both so... I don't see myself ever not having a pc.
 
Yup.

I primarily use Windows on my desktop. My Macbook Pro only sees use when I need a portable computer.

I don't care enough to install Windows on it though, OS X works well enough.
 
The main thing I miss when I use Windows is inertial scrolling, feels like a creaky old beast. I hate to sound like a fanboy, but it's the more organic elements of OSX that make it more pleasant to use for me.

I don't mind Windows really, but I much prefer, and feel more comfortable using the Mac. But then that's probably equally true for someone who's more used to Windows.

Maybe I'll just quit yappin'.
 
cant say switching back to pc or not
i keep both system running

i keep my photography work with osx which more stable, but i keep my other works with windows

because msn, typing chinese, vnc not making me happy in OSX
 
both, i use my macbook pro for some work and my pc for other work. both do what i need them to without any problems.
 
I don't personally see a vast difference between Windows 7 and OSX, so I don't see it as the religious issue some do. My media server is still a Windows machine, accessed via VNC from the Mac and iPad.
 
I've been a long time PC users than about 3 years ago i purchased my first mac. 24" iMac from there i got the black macbook, then a 13" macbook Pro, then 11" Air, and an then a 27" iMac. I sold all of these down the line and pretty much upgraded. At one point about a yr ago i sold all my mac and bought a beast of an alienware gaming PC the $4000 kind.

As of recently i sold the alienware and am now typing on my brand new 13" MBP. I've learned my lesson...The hard and expensive way ;(
 
I use whatever gets the job done best. Sometimes it a Mac, sometimes it's Windows (or a Windows VM), and sometimes it's Linux.
 
Mac's can't touch windows in the HTPC realm.

No cable card.
No blu-ray.
No HD audio.
No custom cases...I need to hold at least 6-8tb. Mac Pro maxes at 4 hdd's. I would prefer a case with at least 6. 5-6 for storage and 1 for OS.
Horrible pricing for Mac Pro. (At $2500, it comes standard with 3gb of ram...and apple delusionaly charges an extra $225 for 3gb....oh geee, what a great deal!).

That's a massive deal killer.

Also, at least in the legal world...there are so many programs that are windows only.

Bootcamp works, but that is cheating...you're only using Mac Hardware then.

I use my Macbook everyday for school and casual use...probably always will. However, for my HTPC uses and work, windows forever since Job's said Apple would never adopt Blu-ray.

And yes, I have over 400 HD movies on my HTPC.
 
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Windows 7 isn't bad, but the Windows hardware experience is awful. It was the combo of well-integrated software and quality hardware that brought me to Apple. The simple experience of unboxing and plugging in the iMac was so cool compared to dealing with unwanted software on a new PC. Hope they keep it this way. Love it.
 
Last year I bought a Windows notebook - wanted to check out Win 7.

I hated the damn thing within half an hour and returned it.

Never will I make that mistake again!
 
yep, I'm using Windows 7 right now with a Microsoft Mouse plugged into a 17" MacBook Pro :D

There are times when Windows is just better than Mac, not many but there are times...
 
MacDawg said:
I bought my first Macintosh in 1987 and have never owned a PC since
I have to use a Windows computer at work and have for years
But my personal purchases have been all Apple since my first Mac SE
I don't see that changing
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Same here. I work for a huge bank so I have to use PC for work but I would never buy one for myself again.

I'm about to quit and work for a small company that uses Mac... :D:D... excited!!

I'm going to have to run parralles to be able to use peachtree accounting but thats about it.... maybe some cheap games.
 
I like Windows 7, for me, it seems no better nor worse than Lion, except where Lion decides to beach ball randomly :/
 
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