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Who has considered switching to windows?
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I've used a Mac as my personal computer since 2003 and I love Mac OS. However, when it comes to getting work done, I must admit that I get more done in front of a Windows machine. I am not quite sure why this is and it still doesn't make me want to switch back to Windows. However, I wouldn't complain if I get a work issued Windows machine in addition to my Mac.
On desktops? Yes. A thousand times yes.
Laptop? I don't think so, unless I'm forced to. I just feel very comfortable using Mac OS on a Laptop.
Laptop? I don't think so, unless I'm forced to. I just feel very comfortable using Mac OS on a Laptop.
I use a Mac at home and Windows (XP!) at work, because at work I have no choice. However, due to recent changes in my job, I may be finally getting a mac at work! Yay! Actually, more than Windows itself I hate having to use MS Office. Even Mac users (at least at work) can't get away from it.
On the other hand, for my new laptop, I intend to run Linux. I can do everything I need to in Linux, and don't feel the need to pay the Apple premium. I'm not happy about the no-upgrade closed-box policy Apple is developing. For my future desktop needs, I don't know--I'll worry about that when my current iMac dies.
On the other hand, for my new laptop, I intend to run Linux. I can do everything I need to in Linux, and don't feel the need to pay the Apple premium. I'm not happy about the no-upgrade closed-box policy Apple is developing. For my future desktop needs, I don't know--I'll worry about that when my current iMac dies.
Use Linux, Windows at work.
Use Macs for most of my personal stuff at home.
Use a very high end gaming PC for my personal gaming running Windows.
Windows with good hardware still provides the best gaming by a very huge margin.
Use Macs for most of my personal stuff at home.
Use a very high end gaming PC for my personal gaming running Windows.
Windows with good hardware still provides the best gaming by a very huge margin.
I have been using Window OSs since 3.11 came out, so I know Microsoft OSs inside out and am much more efficient using them than with MACs. I use Windows 7 & 8 at work. But it's all Mac at home and don't think I would switch back.
I am a Microsoft specialist, working in the industry since 1992. I went Mac in 2006, when Vista came out and since then I never looked back. I use my Mac mainly privately and for work I use Windows, but still I try to work as much as I can on my Mac, because it offers a much better experience than Windows. Sometimes, when I have to use Windows (mainly for Visio), I just use VMWare Fusion instead of turning on my windows laptop. OS X is so much better in everything and I love it.
At times I miss some facets of Windows (XP and Win 7) in classic mode.
From my POV -
Apple holds the OS hostage (with its hardware)
and
Windows OS holds the hardware hostage (PCs so to speak)
When Vista came out, that was my first blind foray into the Mac world. I have since been a Mac user at home. I do have virtual Windows for 5 applications that have no real counterpart in Mac.
Perhaps one day Linux will get even closer to being a real desktop OS and get enough commercial app makers to help expand its popularity. Until then, I'll remain in the Mac camp with all my under my breath cursing for some of the decisions Apple makes for us (telling us what we want).
From my POV -
Apple holds the OS hostage (with its hardware)
and
Windows OS holds the hardware hostage (PCs so to speak)
When Vista came out, that was my first blind foray into the Mac world. I have since been a Mac user at home. I do have virtual Windows for 5 applications that have no real counterpart in Mac.
Perhaps one day Linux will get even closer to being a real desktop OS and get enough commercial app makers to help expand its popularity. Until then, I'll remain in the Mac camp with all my under my breath cursing for some of the decisions Apple makes for us (telling us what we want).
I use Windows at work
I cannot see using it at home. I still find Mac OS much easier to use and more intuitive. I am used to using Word, but beyond that, not a Windows/Office fan.
So, no, I'll stick with Macs for home/personal use as long as Apple makes them.
I cannot see using it at home. I still find Mac OS much easier to use and more intuitive. I am used to using Word, but beyond that, not a Windows/Office fan.
So, no, I'll stick with Macs for home/personal use as long as Apple makes them.
God no. I've been trying to get rid of a virus on my dad's Windows 7 laptop for about 3 hours this morning. I don't miss that in the slightest. I also don't miss how cluttered everything seemed to be on Windows.
I do have Windows 7 installed via bootcamp but I only use that to play some games.
I do have Windows 7 installed via bootcamp but I only use that to play some games.
I'm a certified geek with multiple devices, computers, and OS's. I don't even turn my Mac Pro on much anymore
. Love my MacBook Airs (2010 11" and 2013 13") but got a Surface Pro to force me to play with Windows 8. That led me to putting it on my desktop with multiple monitors.For me, on a desktop it doesn't get much better than Windows 8 running Desktop on one screen and Metro on another.
For a laptop still prefer the Air to the Surface Pro ..... but when on the road I generally take Android (Sony Xperia Z or Nexus 7 2). My iPad is turned on about as often as the Pro.
Good heavens no!
I have removed all the windows from my house and it will remain that way.
I have to use Windows XP at work daily and I always think how much easier this or that would be if I was able to do that same task on a Mac.
I have removed all the windows from my house and it will remain that way.
I have to use Windows XP at work daily and I always think how much easier this or that would be if I was able to do that same task on a Mac.
Once upon a time there was no 'Windows' as MS was still using a 'command line' system. Apple introduced the Macintosh with a 'Graphic User Interface' (GUI) and though expensive I bought my first Mac in 1987. Loved it! The PC crowd back then openly mocked and laughed at Macs and their users. Called Mac a 'toy' and bragged about their 'muscle machines'. Been using Macs over the decades though I did put a copy of Windows 7 Pro on my current MacBook Pro which I use via 'Parallels'. Just keep it so I can run Internet Explorer on occasion. In summary, by using and enjoying Macs I avoided a life of tech issues and virus problems. I remain a fairly 'non tech' computer user. 'It just works'.
So....no, I would never 'go back' as I 'never really was' a PC (Windows) fan.
So....no, I would never 'go back' as I 'never really was' a PC (Windows) fan.
Yep, I started on Fortran, Cobol, Basic, and graduated to CPM and TRS-80
. I've never had a virus problem and the only tech issues have been with the Mac Pro, go figure. Of course with Microsoft OS's drivers, hardware has always been so cheap I swap parts and build from motherboard up with ease. Not so with the Pro that has had 2 CPU failures and 1 video card. Still, I go back and forth like changing underwear
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Good catch. Not everyone using Mac switched from Windows. I haven't, unless you count me using my dads PC growing up. My first computer purchase was an iMac in 1999 and been Mac ever since. I personally never bought Windows before. Considering briefly using Vista was the worst computer experience of my life I doubt I ever will, even if
stopped making Macs, I would look for other alternatives.
I am using windows for gaming and I really like windows 7. I am using my macbook pro for surfing the net. The real fun though, is Linux.
I have just re-read this thread, as I hadn't looked at it in a number of months, and two things occurred to me.
My original remarks still stand, in that I'm in the position of many here who use -or have to use - Windows at work, but Macs for personal use (although most of what I write and research is done on my MBA and transferred, subsequently, to the office Lenovo).
The first point is that many of the organisations, companies, governments, international or supranational bodies that we work for - the very ones which use Windows on a daily basis - do not update their office computers to anything like the same extent as we domestic users do. Most of the computers I have used which have been provided by some of the organisations I have worked for have been a lot older than any of my Macs; that is because my Macs are never older than three years old. This means sometimes quite striking performance differences; my current MBA is an i7, whereas the office machine seems to lag behind this by several generations, not merely one or two.
Moreover, precisely because these are ageing office machines, and rarely 'owned' by anyone in particular, they are not treated with anything like the tender babying care some of us effortlessly bestow on our Macs; instead, the care they receive is marked by necessity and they tend to be on the receiving end of sometimes heedless and rough handling.
Unlike some of the posters here, I have never loathed Windows per se - I just much preferred Apple once I switched. In fact, I quite liked XP, (detested Vista), and, more recently, found Windows 7 a perfectly useful, completely functional, and even fairly friendly, system. Granted, not OSX, but not bad at all. I had neither complaints nor problems with it.
However, the main reason I returned to this thread is to observe that I have rarely come across anything as cumbersome, tediously labyrinthine, needlessly complicated and stupendously frustrating as Windows 8, a point which seems to have been made by some of those who have posted here earlier. Indeed, most unfortunately, my current employers are in the process of switching our entire office over to Windows 8, and I must say that it is without doubt quite the most horrible system I have ever worked with.
My original remarks still stand, in that I'm in the position of many here who use -or have to use - Windows at work, but Macs for personal use (although most of what I write and research is done on my MBA and transferred, subsequently, to the office Lenovo).
The first point is that many of the organisations, companies, governments, international or supranational bodies that we work for - the very ones which use Windows on a daily basis - do not update their office computers to anything like the same extent as we domestic users do. Most of the computers I have used which have been provided by some of the organisations I have worked for have been a lot older than any of my Macs; that is because my Macs are never older than three years old. This means sometimes quite striking performance differences; my current MBA is an i7, whereas the office machine seems to lag behind this by several generations, not merely one or two.
Moreover, precisely because these are ageing office machines, and rarely 'owned' by anyone in particular, they are not treated with anything like the tender babying care some of us effortlessly bestow on our Macs; instead, the care they receive is marked by necessity and they tend to be on the receiving end of sometimes heedless and rough handling.
Unlike some of the posters here, I have never loathed Windows per se - I just much preferred Apple once I switched. In fact, I quite liked XP, (detested Vista), and, more recently, found Windows 7 a perfectly useful, completely functional, and even fairly friendly, system. Granted, not OSX, but not bad at all. I had neither complaints nor problems with it.
However, the main reason I returned to this thread is to observe that I have rarely come across anything as cumbersome, tediously labyrinthine, needlessly complicated and stupendously frustrating as Windows 8, a point which seems to have been made by some of those who have posted here earlier. Indeed, most unfortunately, my current employers are in the process of switching our entire office over to Windows 8, and I must say that it is without doubt quite the most horrible system I have ever worked with.
The Switch
I am actually in the transicion from Windows (after 17 years) to the MacBook Pro (late 2013).
I am forcing myself to use OS X to learn it as fast as possible, being an IT guy I felt quite frustated with the fact of not finding simple things that I would easily find or not even think on how to do on Windows. So sometimes I have an internal fight with myself to really not going back to my Windows PC.
Do help with this transicion I moved out of my desk the Windows Desktop and placed it as the replacement of my living room mediacenter. That way I try to keep the temptation out of easy reach and I am forced to use my MacBook Pro.
Because of what I do for work I cant get completely out of the Windows ecosystem, I am using a BootCamp partition with Windows and I am using the same partition with Parallels so I can satisfy my Windows needs. I must say I have never booted back to Windows (bootcamp) but I did in several times runned Windows Apps through Parallels, I love the coherence mode
Its been some weeks since I receive my MacBook Pro and I didnt honestly had a lot of time playing with it yet, but I am getting there, I just have to keep on being patient and will update my thoughts in my blog ITCentralPoint.com.
I am actually in the transicion from Windows (after 17 years) to the MacBook Pro (late 2013).
I am forcing myself to use OS X to learn it as fast as possible, being an IT guy I felt quite frustated with the fact of not finding simple things that I would easily find or not even think on how to do on Windows. So sometimes I have an internal fight with myself to really not going back to my Windows PC.
Do help with this transicion I moved out of my desk the Windows Desktop and placed it as the replacement of my living room mediacenter. That way I try to keep the temptation out of easy reach and I am forced to use my MacBook Pro.
Because of what I do for work I cant get completely out of the Windows ecosystem, I am using a BootCamp partition with Windows and I am using the same partition with Parallels so I can satisfy my Windows needs. I must say I have never booted back to Windows (bootcamp) but I did in several times runned Windows Apps through Parallels, I love the coherence mode
Its been some weeks since I receive my MacBook Pro and I didnt honestly had a lot of time playing with it yet, but I am getting there, I just have to keep on being patient and will update my thoughts in my blog ITCentralPoint.com.
It's an argument that really annoys me when people say 'if Windows is complicated, you lack the knowledge to use it'. If you think you know Windows, you don't. The more you learn, the less you know. If you say you're competent with Windows, I can guarantee you're not.
I personally recommend doing both on a mac.
That way you still have OSX.
But still have your massive library of programs and games on windows.
That way you still have OSX.
But still have your massive library of programs and games on windows.
I am actually in the transicion from Windows (after 17 years) to the MacBook Pro (late 2013).
I am forcing myself to use OS X to learn it as fast as possible, being an IT guy I felt quite frustated with the fact of not finding simple things that I would easily find or not even think on how to do on Windows. So sometimes I have an internal fight with myself to really not going back to my Windows PC.
Do help with this transicion I moved out of my desk the Windows Desktop and placed it as the replacement of my living room mediacenter. That way I try to keep the temptation out of easy reach and I am forced to use my MacBook Pro.
Because of what I do for work I cant get completely out of the Windows ecosystem, I am using a BootCamp partition with Windows and I am using the same partition with Parallels so I can satisfy my Windows needs. I must say I have never booted back to Windows (bootcamp) but I did in several times runned Windows Apps through Parallels, I love the coherence mode
Its been some weeks since I receive my MacBook Pro and I didnt honestly had a lot of time playing with it yet, but I am getting there, I just have to keep on being patient and will update my thoughts in my blog ITCentralPoint.com.
The transition isn't that important man just use Windows