All of this talk about WinXP and Vista reminds me of the old Mac vs. PC
days. In the past, I would never consider a Mac, with the kids they
wanted too many programs that were not available with a Mac. Mac was a
dinosaur that was slowly gasping it last breath. Programmers were not
developing new software to run on a Mac. Today, that has all changed.
Mac is coming back strong. All I need is an browser, newsreader, an
Office Suite that can be read on Win or Mac, Quicken and Photoshop /
Lightroom and a few other programs all which are available for either
OS. Since the kids will have moved out of the house or be away at
college by the time I buy another one, I will seriously consider Mac
when it is time to replace my current computer. It seems when you
compare apples to apples (pun intended) the Mac is looking better every
day.

Has anyone else thought about jumping ship and going to the dark side?

Has anyone else thought about jumping ship and going to the dark side?

Using a mac is not the "dark side" it's just different. If you're not used to
it; stick with a pc -- especially if you travel -- you'll be bound to find more
spots that support a pc over mac, and parts are always cheaper.

I would suggest a cheap laptop with xp and OpenOffice.

Josh Assing wrote:
Has anyone else thought about jumping ship and going to the dark side?

Using a mac is not the "dark side" it's just different. If you're not used to
it; stick with a pc -- especially if you travel -- you'll be bound to find more
spots that support a pc over mac, and parts are always cheaper.

I would suggest a cheap laptop with xp and OpenOffice.

I don't think the learning curve of a Win XP user will be very different
between Vista and Mac. I have never had trouble negotiating a Mac even
though it is a little different.

"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
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Josh Assing wrote:
Has anyone else thought about jumping ship and going to the dark side?

Using a mac is not the "dark side" it's just different. If you're not
used to
it; stick with a pc -- especially if you travel -- you'll be bound to
find more
spots that support a pc over mac, and parts are always cheaper.

I would suggest a cheap laptop with xp and OpenOffice.

I don't think the learning curve of a Win XP user will be very different
between Vista and Mac. I have never had trouble negotiating a Mac even
though it is a little different.

That is insightful. In fact, the Mac is easier to transition to than Vista
in my opinion.

Cancel Allow --- Reload.

Josh Assing wrote:
Has anyone else thought about jumping ship and going to the dark side?

Using a mac is not the "dark side" it's just different. If you're not used to
it; stick with a pc -- especially if you travel -- you'll be bound to find more
spots that support a pc over mac, and parts are always cheaper.

I would suggest a cheap laptop with xp and OpenOffice.

ps - after downloading a evaluating Office 2007, OpenOffice is looking
very good. I gave my old computer to some kids down the street, and
transfered my Office 2003 to my new machine, I installed OpenOffice on
the computer before giving it to them. I thought it looked good they
have no problems using the software and submitting files to their
teachers.

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:01:08 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Has anyone else thought about jumping ship and going to the dark side?

Yes - me.

I have a lot of friends who are in photography/grapics arts/industrial
film and they all use high end Macs. A lot of the better blogs I read
are done on Macs.

I know in my own experience, PCs just don't seem to produce the same
results as work I've done on Macs with the same picture. I have a
high end PC with all the bells and whistles for graphics work and it
never comes out the same as it does on a Mac. This machine I'm using
now has the fancy pants screen calibrator for color and it almost
never looks right when I'm finished processing an image in CS3.

I'm seriouslyhinking of converting everything over to Mac. The only
thing that's stopping me from doing it is that I've been with PCs for
a long time, I'm used to using Windoze and frankly, the engineering
mindset and user interface with Macs is just plain bizzare - Mac users
have a whole different way of looking at the world and I'm not sure I
can learn a new language. :)

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
All of this talk about WinXP and Vista reminds me of the old Mac vs. PC
days. In the past, I would never consider a Mac, with the kids they
wanted too many programs that were not available with a Mac. Mac was a
dinosaur that was slowly gasping it last breath. Programmers were not
developing new software to run on a Mac. Today, that has all changed.
Mac is coming back strong. All I need is an browser, newsreader, an
Office Suite that can be read on Win or Mac, Quicken and Photoshop /
Lightroom and a few other programs all which are available for either
OS. Since the kids will have moved out of the house or be away at
college by the time I buy another one, I will seriously consider Mac
when it is time to replace my current computer. It seems when you
compare apples to apples (pun intended) the Mac is looking better every
day.

Has anyone else thought about jumping ship and going to the dark side?

The only reason the Mac is flourishing is because of Steven Jobs. Once
he goes to prison for securities fraud the bean counters will take over
again and run the company into the ground, again.

On Oct 30, 6:01 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:
All of this talk about WinXP and Vista reminds me of the old Mac vs. PC
days. In the past, I would never consider a Mac, with the kids they
wanted too many programs that were not available with a Mac. Mac was a
dinosaur that was slowly gasping it last breath. Programmers were not
developing new software to run on a Mac. Today, that has all changed.
Mac is coming back strong. All I need is an browser, newsreader, an
Office Suite that can be read on Win or Mac, Quicken and Photoshop /
Lightroom and a few other programs all which are available for either
OS. Since the kids will have moved out of the house or be away at
college by the time I buy another one, I will seriously consider Mac
when it is time to replace my current computer. It seems when you
compare apples to apples (pun intended) the Mac is looking better every
day.

Has anyone else thought about jumping ship and going to the dark side?

Pfffffftttt!!!

In article ,
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote:

Has anyone else thought about jumping ship and going to the dark side?

I have used both Windows and Macs for many years.
If I have to buy a computer from my money, it is going to be a Mac.
Nowadays you can even run Windows on them, if you must: Bootcamp,
Parallels and others make it possible.
The laptops outperform typical PC's anyway, even when running Windows
(natively).
http://www.apple.com/getamac/windows.html
Of those I have seen switching to a Mac, it took them usually some two
weeks to learn the new habits, but none of them ever looked back.

Marc

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On Oct 30, 2:09 pm, Marc Heusser
d wrote:
In article ,
"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote:

Has anyone else thought about jumping ship and going to the dark side?

I have used both Windows and Macs for many years.
If I have to buy a computer from my money, it is going to be a Mac.
Nowadays you can even run Windows on them, if you must: Bootcamp,
Parallels and others make it possible.
The laptops outperform typical PC's anyway, even when running Windows
(natively).http://www.apple.com/getamac/windows.html
Of those I have seen switching to a Mac, it took them usually some two
weeks to learn the new habits, but none of them ever looked back.

Marc

--
remove bye and from mercial to get valid e-mail
http://www.heusser.com

I still think that at least for now, PC is still the machine of
commerce. I don't know of anyone who runs internet business
applications and/or networking on MAC. A couple of our clients use
them on their end but they are mostly single users/very small business/
single location. And as for running Bootcamp to run your home apps
and such, I guess it's like eating Bluefish. It' good
"IF"...!!! If you have to say "if" or "can" well, you get it I
think Just easier to use the PC in my opinion. My point of view is
from the perspective of a small IHP... Unix, Linux, Apache. Home
systems are XP and I run Vista just to stay informed for customer
support reasons. Our backups are also Linux boxes.

Oh yeah, we run mods that allow us to handle ASP in case anybody is
foolish.. oh, oh... I better stop now