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I want to switch from PC to mac but these reviews are making me think twice.
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he can go along using his PC for the internet... us Mac users aren't the ones who spend hours installing AV stuff every week to prevent the constant threat of malicious programs screwing our system around.
Show-off? i buy a mac, press the power button, and within the hour i'm recording music, making movies... sorry that productivity is showing off...
There's something about the second guy especially that makes me think that he (I daresay it's a guy) gets black eyes and fat lips rather often.
You know those guys who always answer you with "Your Mum" or some other far cruder 'Mum joke'? Or just repeat anything you say in a silly voice? Sudden fantasies of an acquaintance between the guy's head and a baseball bat?
Anyone who talks that way is obviously a jerk.
I like how they make everything so confusing. Clearly they will stop at nothing to turn nothing into something that sounds serious!
Ciao!
You know those guys who always answer you with "Your Mum" or some other far cruder 'Mum joke'? Or just repeat anything you say in a silly voice? Sudden fantasies of an acquaintance between the guy's head and a baseball bat?
Anyone who talks that way is obviously a jerk.
I like how they make everything so confusing. Clearly they will stop at nothing to turn nothing into something that sounds serious!
Ciao!
10. Only way to get text from the dock icons is to put your mouse over it. Hard to find the one you want quickly. --------WTH? he lost me here hahahaha are you serious?
this one made me laugh my azz off, the guy just told us he is stupid.
5. Exiting from a folder and there's no highlight to tell you were you just were. --- Well you bloody well just left the folder? OMG lmao again.
omg im gald i've switched, otherwise i'll be thinking like this guy who made review.
this one made me laugh my azz off, the guy just told us he is stupid.
5. Exiting from a folder and there's no highlight to tell you were you just were. --- Well you bloody well just left the folder? OMG lmao again.
omg im gald i've switched, otherwise i'll be thinking like this guy who made review.
Well, I am planning on switching to Mac, like you... i've been on pc since x286; since then I've been using a computer almost everyday.
And this is the best reason I can say for switching... I know PCs, I know crappy Windows, I know what you get for your money: crashes, more crashes, even more crashes, viruses, spyware, a lot more crashes and... Bill Gates being the richest man in the world, just that.
I've tried Macs sometimes and I decided to start making things properly and have fun.
And Vista promises being even worst... did you know that several days before its deployment they found a "little" bug that made the computer crashing massively and needed to be reinstalled again from scratch? That's Windows and Microsoft, a company of lammers.
BTW, I love my IBM T42, the only pc machine that I find decent and reliable.
Cheers,
And this is the best reason I can say for switching... I know PCs, I know crappy Windows, I know what you get for your money: crashes, more crashes, even more crashes, viruses, spyware, a lot more crashes and... Bill Gates being the richest man in the world, just that.
I've tried Macs sometimes and I decided to start making things properly and have fun.
And Vista promises being even worst... did you know that several days before its deployment they found a "little" bug that made the computer crashing massively and needed to be reinstalled again from scratch? That's Windows and Microsoft, a company of lammers.
BTW, I love my IBM T42, the only pc machine that I find decent and reliable.
Cheers,
There's always "Recent Folders" in the "Go" menu...
And anyway, I don't recall anything like that in Windows...
...But I may be wrong.
Going for a mac now is quite possibly the safest buy you can make; if you absolutely hate it, you can run XP on it, no problem. When I first got a Mac (a trusty 800MHz Powerbook), I still had a windows desktop for a safety net (it was familiar, and I liked Half-Life/Team Fortress). But the more I used a Mac, the more it seemed to click, until it one day seemed so much more intuitive and stable than my desktop (which I then sold).
I think the biggest problem these complainers have is that they aren't open to trying something new, and as soon as they find one fault with a system, they are ready with a pad and paper to keep track of it (and most of those complaints are so mundane!). OS X isn't perfect; my mail program still won't recognize that I've 'read' messages in my IMAP account at times, giving me an annoying task of going over the 'unread' messages again. But does that mean I'm going to can the mail program and go to outlook or checking my mail manually? No. The iLife integration is awesome, and I'm really much faster on a mac than a PC now that I've gotten the hang of all the shortcuts.
Give it a shot and grab a MB/MBP if you're looking for a portable. Keep an open mind and try to look at the experience as something new, not simply as a windows comparison. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
I think the biggest problem these complainers have is that they aren't open to trying something new, and as soon as they find one fault with a system, they are ready with a pad and paper to keep track of it (and most of those complaints are so mundane!). OS X isn't perfect; my mail program still won't recognize that I've 'read' messages in my IMAP account at times, giving me an annoying task of going over the 'unread' messages again. But does that mean I'm going to can the mail program and go to outlook or checking my mail manually? No. The iLife integration is awesome, and I'm really much faster on a mac than a PC now that I've gotten the hang of all the shortcuts.
Give it a shot and grab a MB/MBP if you're looking for a portable. Keep an open mind and try to look at the experience as something new, not simply as a windows comparison. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
I didn't read all the replies. I did read those reviews.
Their problems seemed to fall in 3 categories:
1. User error.
2. Hardware problems that can/will be fixed under warrenty.
3. Software error/misuse. Need to come to MacRumors for help!
Don't know what else you can ask for.
Their problems seemed to fall in 3 categories:
1. User error.
2. Hardware problems that can/will be fixed under warrenty.
3. Software error/misuse. Need to come to MacRumors for help!
Don't know what else you can ask for.
Honestly, Proto Media's response made me embarrassed to be a Mac user. It's prototypical fanboy talk like that that makes the rest of the world think Mac users are completely moronic. You "used a PC once for 4 hours, and it crashed more times than all other macs combined in the last 15 years?" That is either the most virus/spyware/broken PC I have ever heard of, or you are completely full of crap. Give me a break, I've used a PC for years, and could count the number of crashes on one hand. Please Next Tuesday, listen to more rationale reasoning other than Proto Media's when you hopefully decide to switch
P.S. His Honda Civic, Child-Adult, etc. analogies are mind-numbingly asinine as well
I got my first Mac last year. Never had to reinstall the OS, it never slowed down, it handled the internet to 90%. Plus many other things (98%).
And that's all out of the freakin' box.
After Flip4Mac and two Divx and Xvid (i think) components and VLC-player it worked 100% for me.
If you don't like it, don't worry. Just stick to Windows, but I can certainly say, I don't want to touch a Windows machine anytime soon and I definitely don't want to hear about any Windows related problems. There is an alternative out there, stop complaining.
And that's all out of the freakin' box.
After Flip4Mac and two Divx and Xvid (i think) components and VLC-player it worked 100% for me.
If you don't like it, don't worry. Just stick to Windows, but I can certainly say, I don't want to touch a Windows machine anytime soon and I definitely don't want to hear about any Windows related problems. There is an alternative out there, stop complaining.
I don't see how that statement is more rational than his statement. I think you're both liars.
Ok, ive read hundreds upon hundreds of posts. Thanks everyone for your input. Ive decided to leave the PC world and get a Mac. Im going to buy a MBP 15" c2d 2.33 2 gigram 160 hd with glossy screen. Im sure when i get it, ill be back here for answers to switching questions which im sure everyone will help me on. This is an awesome forum and so helpful. Its like i have 10000 friends at my fingertips. Thanks everyone!
You won't regret it! Some of the concerns listed in the first review are valid, mainly because Mac users are a minority and software isn't always made right just for us. However, I never regretted switching. There are workarounds for almost any problem, the eye-candy is excellent, and it's just so much fun to use a computer again!
The biggest thing that I loved about switching from Windows was not having to deal with loads of spyware building up just from surfing the web (and no, I don't d/l tons of porn either). Running Ad-aware constantly was a huge waste of time.
The sleep function in Macbook/MBPs works brilliantly, and you will love MacSaber
The biggest thing that I loved about switching from Windows was not having to deal with loads of spyware building up just from surfing the web (and no, I don't d/l tons of porn either). Running Ad-aware constantly was a huge waste of time.
The sleep function in Macbook/MBPs works brilliantly, and you will love MacSaber
Just remember that for every negative post/experience you read about,there are thousands of others that are satisfied.It's human nature to complain and what better arena than the net?
The reality is that most of these people who write Mac vs PC reviews like this haven't really used them in the first place.
I have seen so many PC people start with the anti-Mac rant without any knowledge of Macs and are just taking it from a PC point of view.
The usual complaint I hear from PC users about Macs are to do with the old "you can't get that on a Mac" without realising the simple fact that it's a Mac, a total package of hardware, software and a great OS and it does things different to Windows.
The ironic thing about most of the complaints is that they love PC yet hate Mac but the core of the critisims were directly related to Microsoft products for the Mac. However none of the complaints said anything reasonable about Mac OS because they couldn;t find anything.
I've have used Mac, PC and Linux and I have converted many PC people to Mac and the people who genuinely hate Mac are the people who never get out of the PC world and give Apple a try.
And yes I am still laughing about that "Systems Administrator's" response, very mature.....
I have seen so many PC people start with the anti-Mac rant without any knowledge of Macs and are just taking it from a PC point of view.
The usual complaint I hear from PC users about Macs are to do with the old "you can't get that on a Mac" without realising the simple fact that it's a Mac, a total package of hardware, software and a great OS and it does things different to Windows.
The ironic thing about most of the complaints is that they love PC yet hate Mac but the core of the critisims were directly related to Microsoft products for the Mac. However none of the complaints said anything reasonable about Mac OS because they couldn;t find anything.
I've have used Mac, PC and Linux and I have converted many PC people to Mac and the people who genuinely hate Mac are the people who never get out of the PC world and give Apple a try.
And yes I am still laughing about that "Systems Administrator's" response, very mature.....
ROFL
Enjoy your new Mac, Next Tuesday. The 'reviews' pack more than a grain of truth, but the points are overblown. It's a refreshing change. Just make sure you get the Applecare and I hope you live near an Apple Store.
I was going to say the same thing but the computer-car analogies have also been discussed to death on these boards! (I wish I had a Civic.)
To get back on topic...
As others have stated, things on the mac aren't screwed up, they're just different. I'll try to sum it up with a little anecdote about my early mac days. I was trying to figure out how to do something (can't remember what) and was getting frustrated with both myself and the machine. Then I thought, Okay...if I were the designer, how would I make it do this thing. Sure enough, it worked. Calling it intuitive is an understatement.
-Squire
Well...it works flawlessly on my Rev D PB...and so far also works well on my new MBP. Have you tried the sleep function on Windows laptops? Slow and clunky.
Yeah, I concur. I'm gonna go mail back my Netflix rentals so I can feel purposeful again.
The sleep or hibernation function on a Windows machine, in my experience, is useless. Under sleep my batery was always drained and recovery from hibernation always took as long as starting up. I would just shut down, which, again IMO, was needed every couple days anyway.
I have had my MBP for 8 days, its uptime is 7 days. I sleep at night, takes seconds to wake form sleep with hardly any battery drain.
It is an excellent feature and mine works flawlessly.
Not in the least. I buy like for like, and don't compare my Mac with some ghetto machine that I was overjoyed to be upgrading from to anything. But if it works for you, great. All I can say is that it hasn't worked for my MBP or my Macbooks anywhere as well as it works in my current Windows laptops. I have had some lemons though, but that was a while back.