Hi all
I bought my Macbook Pro in 2012 because I love what Apple has done to
the iOS platform and thought why not. I'm slowly but surely switching
full time so am ready for when my Windows 7 64 bit laptop dies. I
certainly think it was worth every penny, and thanks to this and other
lists as well as my own tutoring I can do most things on the Mac now,
from basic web navigation to installing and using third party apps both
from the web and the App Store.
Regards Chris
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof!
On 06/04/2014 03:34, Kevin Shaw wrote:
Hi,
* Hi Scott.
As I have said, I am thinking about switching to the Mac and have been trying
to gather more information about it. To that end, I have been asking specific
questions. I will continue to do that but I would like some general feedback
from people who have made the switch from Windows to the Mac. Why did you
switch In the first place?
* I didn't switch at first. I got a Macbook Pro in 2009 because I was going back to school and wanted a laptop that would take notes and that I didn't have to install JAWS on. In terms of cost savings, I looked at the costs vs. benefits of buying a Windows machine, a Windows license, Office, JAWS, plus the time required to reinstall and configure the system the correct way--including all of the anti-malware apps, disk configuration and all of the other tweako things you do with a Windows machine. When I got my Mac, I turned it on and was surfing the web and checking my email in 10 minutes flat. I've never had to defrag, do disk clean up, tweak an app, nor have I had a single virus or case of malware. For me, the benefit outweighed the cost. I kept a PC running to use Office until its power supply nearly caught fire in my house. I completed my Master's degree by learning to mark up documents in Pages with formatting, table of contents, pagination and sectioning. As an entrepreneur
who needs complex spreadsheets, Numbers has worked like a champ. The holy grail
of Mac accessibility is MS Office, but I think that is far in the distant
future.
Having switched, do you feel that it was the right choice for you?
* Yes. I've saved lots of time and frustration by making the Mac my sole
computer. I will probably get a PC for my office to work in Excel much faster
than in Numbers, but all in all, I'm happy with the Mac as a platform.
Do any of you regret having switched or have you even gone back to the PC?
* No regrets for what I need to do. I've used PCs for work since
switching and I still do all of the tweako things to get it to work right, but
I doubt I'd make a PC my main machine. I have the Windows 7 DVD sitting in my
desk, as I thought I'd be using BootCamp, but it's been a glorified paperweight
ever since I got it.
I've used my Mac to administer websites in WordPress, run MOnte Carlo
simulations in Numbers, convert high-res video and audio, record bands and much
more without any complaints, system hangs, kernel panics or critical software
failures. Both platforms have their advantages and disadvantages and having a
machine that's accessible out of the box for 97% of the most common tasks you
need to do on a computer is a huge bonus.
Cheers,
Kevin
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