Mac vs PC
 

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?

Mac vs PC
 

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.

Mac vs PC
 

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.

Mac vs PC
 

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.

Mac vs PC
 

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. :)

Mac vs PC
 

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.

Mac vs PC
 

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!!!

Mac vs PC
 

"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
. ..
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.

Mac vs PC
 

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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Mac vs PC
 

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:37:00 -0400, " JimH" ask wrote:


"Marc Heusser" d wrote in
message ...
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

Apple computers consistently rank at the top of Consumer Report rating for
both performance and reliability. They are far from cheap though.

The Dell Inspiron laptop I purchased for my son ranked 2nd in performance
and their latest tests of laptops and Dell ranked either 2nd or 3rd for
reliability.


Sounds like your son is getting a super gift! ;-)