Reply With QuoteFrom the point of view of the rest of us, this is a definite upside.Originally Posted by Bunny
Your experience is interesting and is the exact opposite of mine. I am using my own MacBook Air right now, whilst my company Windows Laptop is being fixed again (and again). My Mac just connects wirelessly straight away, never a problem. The laptop on the other hand can be an absolute nightmare. If some deep nested parameter gets changed (and that seems to occur all by itself) then I am seriously screwed.
Macs are more expensive but I reckon I could have bought a Mac outright on the cost of the IT support I have had in just the last week.
Everyone's experiences are different I guess.
Just as an afterthought. Because my Mac connects wirelessly so easily, I am finding I am spending too much time on this Forum instead of getting on with the job. That is a bit of a downside.
Last edited by Graham Lappin; 27th October 2009 at 04:01 PM. Reason: An afterthought
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From the point of view of the rest of us, this is a definite upside.
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I guess that's something I don't have to worry about.
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I made the switch to Macs about a year or so ago. Got hacked off with the MS assumptions that I should be damned lucky they were letting me use my own hardware at all, and don't go thinking just because you bought it that you own this OS young man. We own you.
Went through a significant Linux phase. I still love it but I just don't have the time to mess around and can't help tinkering if tinkering is needful...
Unless you need an industry standard CAD package there's no problems at all with software availability or compatibility. And even then you could just run boot camp or virtualisation software (Virtual box is free and powerful).
Zero connection problems. Macs seem to assume that you're a fairly sensible and honest person so talk to one another seamlessly and fast. My memories of trying to network Windows at home are...not good ones.
Cost I think is a very misunderstood aspect of Macs. Yes they cost a fair bit, but then you're in one stroke obviating the whole messing around with new drivers for video card, sound card, motherboard etc etc etc issue. One button updates your Mac. The hardware is high quality and usually lasts for ever (still streaming music and watching DVD's on a ten year old G3 iMac i bought for £36). The real saving comes when it's time to upgrade - Macs hold their value better than a low mileage serviced VW Golf that's only been used on sunny Sundays. For example - just bought a Mac Mini to stream music, films, iPlayer etc to my telly. Early 2006 model, cost approx £450 new, I paid £275. Depreciation of £58/year. Buy a new windows computer from PC World and watch its value take a swan dive as you drive out of the car park...
Just saying...
And yes, the only -ve is that using a Mac turns you into an insufferably smug git, or as the Americans so evocatively put it, a douchebag
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You PC lovers should listen to AudioTherapist.
Not a negative in my view.
Audio THERAPIST .... not sure I like the sound of "Therapist" but hey, a Mac lover can't be all bad.
mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so
Louis Pasteur
I'm a Tinnitus specialist, the erstwhile name for my profession was Hearing Therapist which I agree is still pretty crappy. It's slowly moving to Rehabilitative Audiologist but try saying that after three pints...Audio THERAPIST .... not sure I like the sound of "Therapist" but hey, a Mac lover can't be all bad.
Being a smug git's never a good thing. It's just hard to resist when you're using a pain free Mac that comes with a ton of professional grade software you'd have to pay through the nose for on a Windows PC
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Apologies if I pre-judged.
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Pardon?
Oh this is going to be such a shamefully wimpy response!
I struggle every day to fight the PC council data storage and work system, ironically named 'Framework'! I have never experienced the green fields of Mac, though I've heard of their lush grass and warm sun. Hubby, who is the in house computer specialist and works with industry standard CAD, is a PC person, not because he especially likes it but because he knows it. In our house division of labour goes like this - if it has eyes and breathes it's my job, if it has buttons and wires it's his, therefore I too am PC as all this 'stuff' that has me here typing comes magically from inside his sleeves and rarely costs us as he is given old computers which he revamps.
So while I hear rumours of utopia my comp crashes unless I use Google chrome, my soundcard is knackered again and this old heap limps along until more freebies fly our way - I'm too damn tight to get impatient and suggest actual purchases!
I can't believe anybody uses anything other than Google Chrome these days.
Still on Firefox ... sell me Chrome ...
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You've changed your dog's picture ... he's really very cute!
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He's got his Halloween eyes on....
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