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What convinced you to Apple?

Interesting question!

First, I used a Mac for some weeks when I was at some relatives home for vacation. That was my first contact with Mac OS X. I've owned an iPod before, which I already learnd to love.

Then there were the Leopard Previews which I found very interesting. Though I think Exposé is still my favorite function (I haven't used Spaces, I don't think I really need that) and I like the widgets. Time Machine is real fancy an just looks amazing, though I am using Carbon Copy Cloner.

The iLife 08 presentation was also really sweet. It's nice that it's bundled with every new purchased Mac. Though I should use iPhoto and iDVD more than I do at the moment. I made a cool DVD, with pictures, videos and music and I really enjoyed making it. Next thing will be a Photobook I think.

Everything together told me that I really wanted a Mac. And at the moment I couldn't resist anymore and needed a new computer, I just ordered one of the newly released MacBooks in early March.
 
After I bought my iPhone I was so impressed I started lurking :p around the Apple store in Rancho Cucamonga (I was out there on business for quite a while). As soon as I realized I could run Windows in BC for games and my professional apps (that aren't ported to the Mac) I was sold.
I ordered a MP as soon as the new version (with the high end video card) was announced and while I was waiting for it I watched Steves keynote speech where announced the MBA. I ordered one the next day.
Now I'm totally sold on Apple and hate it when I have to boot up to Windows as it's soooooo slooowwww.
 
The Unix core was what finally did it for me (I'm a switcher from linux). I just didn't have time to maintain my linux installation so I thought I'd go for OS X... couldn't be happier! :D
 
By comparison to most people here I'm totally new. My first new machine in 5 years; I'm going away for 3 months and taking my XP desktop is impractical, so looking at laptops it was clear that Apple knew where they were going with their Macbooks compared to the competition.

OS X was the biggest factor. Time Machine was the killer app for me in Leopard and no matter how many websites tried to convince me that Volume Shadow Copy in Vista could do the same thing it a) has the worst name ever and b) doesn't do it with the same style.

Plus I could try OS X and a Macbook in store, which can't be said for many online only Windows laptop manufacturers.

I basically saw which way the wind was blowing and went with Apple, but that doesn't ever stop me from going back if Microsoft got their act together when this Macbook has aged enough. Whoever has the better product gets my purchase. Simple, and the way it should be.
 
I was working in a ComputerLand store selling crappy IBM clones in the late 80s. We had this 400 lb. geek working there who was a computer genius. Would teach you anything you wanted to know but let no one near the Mac floor model. I would watch him and was intrigued.

Flash forward a few months and Apple announces a contest to win prizes which included Apple //gs' and Mac SEs. I sold a crapload of Apple //gs systems that xmas season and earned enough points to get a Mac SE. I was the top Apple salesperson in the company for quite some time after that. :DCertainly didn't hurt that Avis was my biggest customer and once ordered 700 Macs for their reservation center in Tulsa. 700 Macs, 700 monitors, 700 keyboards (ah, those were the days) and 300 LaserWriters and 1,050 AppleTalk adapters. Apple sent me on a trip after that deal. I had the local Apple reps heavily involved.

Never owned anything other than a Mac since except for the work issued laptops.
 
Had Hell on Earth with my PC from about July/August '07 for approximately six months. It was Christmas/New Years when I'd decided to ditch XP Pro and move to Vista... then I did some in-depth research and found people were having a lot of problems with it. Also, my-then spec PC would've struggled with Vista and a guy on a forum I was a member of said "Why not go Mac?" and I struggled to come up with an answer :D

I said things like "Because I need programs that can do this... and this... and this... and that..." and he said "Try THIS, THIS, THAT and THIS".

I said things like "But can you do this? And that?" and he said "Yes."

More importantly he gave me links to some switchers sites with FAQ's and general Mac info. I went to the Trafford Centre, stood my chubby arse in front of an iMac for about an hour and a half and was sold there and then.

Saved up for an iMac, bought it at the end of March '08 and have never looked back. My only regret is not making the switch sooner.
 
OS X all the way, since 10.0 Beta!

Don't talk me about OS 9 and lower, I hate them. But the Unix underlayer of OS X was enough for me to switch at the time from the Linux world. No more frustating time just to get something simple done, no more! But I still have a Linux around just in case :cool:

The few last distro of Linux are cool, I still love Debian and Gentoo. Ok, gentoo is a real pain some time but it was funny and work very well.
 
Windows is garbage and Linux is too much work. I dumped Windows in 1997 in favor of Linux. And in 2007 I dumped Linux in favor of OS X.
 
To many blue screens of death for me. now its a black macbook. old enough to see the times where black costed the same as white
 
Using Jaguar on an iMac G4 circa 2002 for an html class in high school. Haven't looked back since.
 
somewhere between the viruses, the up keep, and so on....

I said No more to the PC market and bought a PowerMac G4 and LOVED it.

Followed now by my macbook pro and now i'm happy.
 
Just walked into a Bestbuy

and happen to bump into an Apple Imac, used it and bought it on the spot...have been a fanboy ever since!!!:D
 
When my friend got one of these when they came out, I got a chubby.

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sukanas said:
mine was when right before the new aluminum iMacs came out
but what was the most interesting part was i really got into macs when i saw the keynote on iLife08...

not even leopard or iphone was the thing that convinced me... when i first saw ilife08, i thought it was amazing. or maybe steve jobs was just charasmatic in presenting his keynotes...
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I have used Macs my entire life. I was convinced long back that Apple was the right choice when buying a computer. ;)
 
A small perfect storm for me:

My old Dell laptop is dying on me, so I needed a new laptop. Buying a Windows one meant either running Windows 2000 -- 8 years old, or XP -- 5 years old. Bah! Buying a new laptop to run old software? Does not make sense to me.

At the same time, the MacBooks got updated to Santa Rosa and X3100. Along with a sharp decrease in RAM prices. Oh, and Leopard just came out!

So, looking at price/performance/features, and being able to use Mac OS X, I finally switched and picked up a MacBook. Best thing I ever bought! :)
 
The iPhone convinced me. I owned a G3 PowerBook with OS X 10.1, I think, but I loaned it to a friend most of the time as he was a Mac user and needed a portable.

I also bought a Core Duo MacBook with 10.4, but again, didn't really use it on a regular basis.

Once I bought the iPhone, I was hooked and bought the Al iMac 24" the day it came out and have never looked back - especially once Leopard shipped. I now have a MBP, will be buying a Mac Pro when it moves to Nehalem, use an Airport Extreme (and Express for travel) and will be buying an :apple:tv shortly.
 
When I was 9, parents bought me my first computer - iMac G3 back in 1998 :)

Thanks to my dad, who has been a Mac user since God knows when, I never had (and never will have) a PC in my life.
 
eXan said:
When I was 9, parents bought me my first computer - iMac G3 back in 1998 :)

Thanks to my dad, who has been a Mac user since God knows when, I never had (and never will have) a PC in my life.
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I have a question for you...
Are Macs common in Russia or are you the only person with a Mac in your town?
 
It seems like the iPhone was a gateway for a few people.

I used to be a dyed-in-the-wool PC fan, having built my 3 previous machines (6 if you count family as well). That included a few knock-down-drag-out arguments with a pro-Mac friend about Mac vs. PC. The first two machines I built weren't QUITE fast enough to accomplish the tasks I was using them for (Digital Audio Workstation, mostly). Being able to tweak the PC up made the difference between just barely completing the task, and not quite completing the task.

When I built the 3rd machine, CPU, memory, and hard disk development had sufficiently outstripped my usage patterns. I could run all the virtual instruments, effects, etc. on that 2.8GHz P4 that I wanted. It just did the job. Even if a Mac would have been a viable alternative, I would never have needed to upgrade.

Then my PocketPC phone started to die, my contract was up, and for personal reasons AT&T was an economical carrier choice. I tried the iPhone and decided I could live with it and the price was decent (after the drop).

I was impressed how all the features just worked. It didn't do everything my PPC device could, but being able to navigate the media player was huge to me. Where tweaking a PC in the old days was key to maximizing performance, tweaking a PPC phone was necessary just to get it to work. The iPhone was like that old P4 - it did everything I needed. No add-ons, no tweaks, just turn it on and go.

Not long after that, the Northbridge cooler on my PC started to die, and I found a used Mini I could afford and jumped on it. I just wanted to see if I could deal with the environment in a relatively risk-free manner.

Now I just bought a 2x2.66GHz Pro and am selling the Mini. At this point a computer to me is an appliance, and OS X is a better appliance for what I want to do than the Microsoft side of the world.

So here I am.
 
Its funny to think back how things worked out....

When we first started getting computers in school we have BBC Micros then BBC Archithingies - we also had 1 mac! For people like me we wanted Amigas - i had the 500 then the 1200.

After the Amiga's demise I went PC for a few years - never liked it, but I dont think apple were really 'back' by then - then a mate showed me his iBook and I started to get into the apple stuff. Eventually it came to replace the dell laptop and I went for the last iMac G5.

My only regret is not waiting a coupld of months for the release of the intel! Seemed a good time to buy as it was a 'new' model - but if I knew then what I know now......
 
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