I'm lovin it (confessions of a switcher)
So, its been 6 months since making the switch and I'm lovin it (cue the music). I can't believe it took me this long to switch. As long as Steve Jobs is running Apple, I ain't going back. By the way, I picked up a 17inch iMac, with 768 RAM and Bluetooth. I'm also gonna pick up a iPod mini when it arrive here in Canada in July - can't wait. I will now go forward and preach the benefits of Apple. I've already switched one person at work and have two others considering making the switch. Apple rocks. Apple 4 Life.
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I the difference between Wintel and Macs on the surface doesn't look big. You always hear the infamous "What can I do on a Mac that I can't do on a PC" but these people fail to see what's important. The "ease" of doing something. My PCs just feel soulless. I'm so ready to grab a new G5 based Mac. I'm just waiting and saving.
I'm sure, these days, probably not much. But it's definitely the journey. I don't think it's any accident that Microsoft and others have seemed to jump on the whole digital music/photo/video "hub-wagon", when Apple - and Apple alone - has shown, for nearly four years, that it is indeed possible for regular people and non-professionals to work with this stuff.
And to this day, I don't think there's a consumer-oriented solution on the PC sides that's as easy-to-use and headache-free as iLife '04 and .Mac. So many people just want to post photos of their family reunion or new grandson online, but after spending some time with friends and family members using PCs, it's never easy. Different, third-party apps - most half-ass and quite cheesy - and they just seem to take you a long way 'round the bend to do most everything.
The best advertisement for the Mac is to have a relative or buddy give you their digital camera as you're standing there with your Mac: plug it in, download to iPhoto, crop, group, build a homepage, add captions, upload and notify.
I can literally do in about 3 minutes (my new PowerBook gallery, for example) what I've NEVER been able to see my Mom do with a really nice, tricked-out HP, 19" flat screen, etc. That's why I get so up in arms over Spec Whores and hardware junkies, because, frankly, you can have the most cutting-edge, powerful set-up in the world, but if all you can manage to truly do with it is surf a bit and enter your withdrawals into Quicken, then what's the point? If you're still shooting boring, unedited video and still e-mailing uncropped 28" JPEGS to everyone (and wondering why they're pissed at you), then your computer is using you and not the other way around.
Hell yes, I'm biased. Proudly so. But for a very good reason. I truly believe Apple "gets it", and when they put something out, you can practically smell the time, care and "sweating the details" put into it.
I never thought I'd own a digital camera. I never thought I'd put every piece of music I own on my computer and chuck the disks. I never thought I'd look anywhere but the newspaper for movie starting times.
Congrats, Tree. Enjoy it...you're SUPPOSED to!
Originally posted by tree
I will now go forward and preach the benefits of Apple.
Be careful, too much preaching and you make people hate Apple for life instead of loving it. Just like my PC friends and relatives do to me every day Just show it to people and let them make their own judgement
although i did volunteer my powerbook to be the Powerpoint presentation computer for one of my classes the other day. when it loaded and ran everyone's powerpoint just fine, they were all, "i didn't know macs were so much like normal computers." i said, "macs are normal computers, just prettier." that is about as preachy as i get. i don't mind razzing the mac stereotypes either (ie that macs are only for looks). keep the marketshare high enough to maintain software development and i'm happy.
Originally posted by quagmire
They will listen to a pc magaazine that the Macs freeze alot and windows doesn't.
Try this PC magazine
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/...15,pg,4,00.asp
Originally posted by Neruda
Try this PC magazine
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/...15,pg,4,00.asp
Note to self: See how even PC magazines steals from apple.
must admit, i love it! she has got the iMac now and i have the whole pc back to myself.
but, the next one will be a Mac and not a pc anymore.
Have to admit, it does take alil to not approach OS X as XP.
now the next things we need is a lil more ram and and a wacom hehe
Originally posted by sparhawk
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Have to admit, it does take alil to not approach OS X as XP.
Yeah i can tell you storys concerning that issue
I always state to someone new to the mac: hey darling do not treat that thing like windows. (or should i have said "do not threaten that thing with windows)
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