Thinking about a Mac?

I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but macs are great for graphics programs.

I'm slowly making my way through this thread lol.

My opinion of Vista. Well I love looking at it but I cant stand using it

Warning, my Toshiba ran perfectly for 3 years until oh.... January when it completely went out. I was so careful with that computer. It was almost impossible to even recover a thing off that hard drive by the time it died...

PCs? Freeze? Gah. Polar. Especially if I was working on a legal paper and had two or three windows of legal research open and a couple of frames of WordPerfect, although I've had them freeze with only one task going more often than I care to swear about.

The worst was the Dell system that had been newly put in Dave's office. We could all count on our stations freezing at least two or three times a day - each, and I'd have to go reboot the server at least three times a week. Every time the Dell techs would come out it would get worse. And the only stations that had internet access were the ones I used for research and the one his wife used for chat

And Windows should have named their latest OS WTF instead of Vista.

Oookay lets see if I can answer GO's quesiton here.

I grew up on PC's. I grew up knowing the basics on how to use them and do things on them. Just because I can sit down at one and make it work instantly is because of my prior experience, not any form of intuition. HOWEVER, to learn how to do something new on a PC was (and still is) painstaking. I'm not a computer person, just your average joe who uses one for school/work/getting online/basic photoshop stuff and music/movies.

I got my mac and was terrified that because I'm NOT a computer person it would be really hard to learn how to use it. I'd been using PC's all my life, and knew how hard it is to learn new things on that, I expected the worst. Within a few hours I was flying on the Mac. I don't have to fuss with anything. Now I sit down at a PC and expect it to work like a Mac, because it's like whoever designed Mac's thought the way I do. THAT'S intuitive. I can get things done without fussing around with menu's or what have you.

Things I can do on a mac that I couldn't do (or couldn't do as well) on a PC?
Well, the corners function has saved my life! So much faster to find which window I need/get to the desktop without minimizing everything.
The definition for intuitive I posted earlier? Highlighted the word, selected "find in dictionary". I STILL don't know if you can do this on a PC, as it's so cumbersome to use I never would have thought to try. With my mac, I needed a definition and had it without really thinking of how. That was my first time using that function. I thought of it, found and used it in like 5 seconds.
The search function. I don't have a program I need on my dock? Type it into search and I have it running with a single click. I can find files this way too. And it doesn't take the time to scan the whole system, it comes up instantly.
Airport! I love not having to fumble with stuff to get online. Airport detects an open wireless network and I'm on.
This is just what I could think of in a minute, there are a LOT more or I wouldn't feel the way I do, so strongly

I think I may have, and if I didn't, I second this. The interface makes working with several programs and several projects a lot more seamless.

Primarily the reason I got one. I need graphics programs but I don't play pc games. Unless I suddenly got into computer gaming (can't see this happening, I'm a console person) I'd probably opt for a mac.

Made the choice very simple, lol.

Windows will automatically put me on my wireless network that I've told it I want to go on (luckily it won't just automatically put me on any random wireless network it finds. I'd hate that). If I've been on the network before and it picks it up, then it'll automatically connect me.

If it detects networks I've not yet been on before, then it pops up a little bubble that says "new wireless networks found" and I click that and it brings up the wireless screen to select a network.

Seems pretty intuitive to me.

Hmmm...I have to say yes, recently I have had it freeze up. I have a program called Samurize (which doesn't work on a Mac) which gives me feed back on my system's status: temperature, free memory, song that is playing currently, to-do lists displayed on my desktop, whatever I want. I put in an option to include time that my computer has been up.

Well once I kept the thing up for 42 days without a reboot. And yah things got cluttered into the memory and it did freeze when it was trying to load one of my games. Wouldn't have normally, but because I never cleared the RAM and my free RAM had been worn down slowly, it eventually got too low and the game didnt' like that. Froze my computer and I had to do a hard reboot.

But that's the last time I've ever had my computer freeze on me. And it surprised the hell out of me to be honest. Hadn't had that happen in a long time.


By the by yes I can click a word and have it open a dictionary for me. Just double-click it, move over the little icon that comes up, and it opens in a little box there on my screen. Don't even have to change screens and soon as I'm done with the box just click off of it and it closes.


This keeps throwing me. What menus are ya'll fussing with all the time? Is the start menu really that complex? It only has a couple of options on it.


Anyhow I'll be at the library studying for a couple of hours. Look forward to more people's reasons why they feel the Mac is more intuitive other than 'it just works'.

Edit: Or I thought I was going to the library. Mother nature turned vicious recently it appears.

I was completely lost when I first started to do work on my PC, too. And then when I made the change to Mac, it took me a day to get used to it. It's all laid out nice and neat and is very easy to operate. Having owned both now, there will NEVER be another PC in this house. Talk about a waste of money.

No, because I personally have used BOTH for years before and I KNOW Mac to be superior. In my opinion, people who say they "tried" it for 10 minutes and couldn't figure out how to copy and paste (by the way, still LOLing at that.. too funny ) have no experience to back the claim that Macs are not intuitive. Sounds like user issues to me. People who used them back in high school, for little things here and there (and who knows how long ago high school may have been) and have never actually given a Mac a chance have no experience to back the claim that Macs are not intuitive.

The only valid response from the PC side has been Eddie, who HAS worked in both and still prefers PC's. Great, good for him. To be honest, I am glad that he has been successful in his workings with PC's.. I, on the other hand, have not.

I am also more willing to take a professionals opinion, DemitriousK (regardless of him being my husband) over that of a college student who can't figure out copy/paste features because this specific professional has done extensive work in both PC's and Macs- for both work and fun- and knows what he is talking about.

Now, I think I'm done. This thread is starting to not be funny any more and I want to remember this thread and laugh.

wait, who's your husband?

eddie?

No, DemitriousK.

I saw ^that and thought you were telling him to 'leave it' ROFL!! I had to back up a page to find out what was going on! :lol-sign:

:rofl1: Silly me!

Wait.... BP don't run away yet... LOL I need to ask a question, I went to Future Shop this afternoon and played with the Mac they had there, it was different but I am confident I can adapt quite well.... I was wondering about going desktop this time, rather than laptop?? I am torn any advice there? I love my laptop but the Mac on display was like a tower and a monitor all in one, VERY cool!!! and it had a 24" screen!!!! I was very impressed by the "clean" look of having just the monitor, keyboard and mouse ( neat mouse btw...) My only concern is what if something goes wrong with the monitor, it feels like the whole unit would be useless, can't just replace the monitor?? This is the machine I was looking at:http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?sku_id=0665000FS10100519&catid=23017&logon=&langid=EN

Well, telling him no is rather abstract for him, so I have to use core phrases, such as "Leave it, Mit" or "wrong, Mit".






ohhh, I'm sooo in trouble. Coop, I come stay with you tonight?




I think that is strictly a matter of preference. I have a laptop, hubby has a laptop he uses as a laptop and then a Macbook Pro that he leaves on his desk and has a gigantic monitor for. I like to be able to take my laptop wherever I go, so I have a MacBook. But, for my desk, I have a keyboard and mouse attachment to use when I will be spending a lot of time writing (like, a thesis, for example ). I also have one of those stands that you can put the laptop on, so it's like I'm using a desktop, but I'm really now. Uhm, did any of this make sense to you? lol I can take a picture if that helps....

what happens if the screen on your macbook goes? Same idea.

It does make sense…. I think I'd miss my freedom with the laptop, no manner how cool the desktop is.... I also like being able to take the computer with me to show clients possible options for the vinyl end of the business and to show potential clients work we have already done for others. I really think I will look at the MacBooks, I have always found the laptop a pain for doing any amount of typing, I bought this sort of "lap" desk but I gave up on it... I will have to look for a stand, that sounds more like what I want, I would like something that, for lack of a better way to describe it, is kind of like those hospital tables that roll up to the bed that I could "roll" up to my chair and type on more comfortably... If that makes sense? LOL

Yep, makes sense. Sometimes I want my laptop to be a lap top and there are times when I need it to be a desk top. I like the freedom of having one, too. I can't drag a desktop everywhere with me.

No that’s not what I was thinking, I was thinking more along the lines of in the past being able to replace a blown monitor or cooked tower and not having to replace both at once, I did not see any Macs that were "towers and monitors" independent of each other? I am green to this though, maybe they just had none at that store.....

I should add,not that it really matters I suppose, but it will explain why I ask about the Desktop and MacBook we run 3 computers, one desktop at the office, NEVER online, one here that my son uses for himself and to do vinyl work on and mine for a bit of everything, If I am happy with this one I hope to switch them all over eventually!!

Come on over! We'll pick on Kevin until HE throws us out too! It'll be fun! :rofl1: