I got a recording engineer that used to work for me to switch. My studio ran on a couple protools rigs, he was running Cool Edit Pro (laff) at his home on his PC. 1 month later he had a G4 with his very own scaled down protools rig. After that, he got his girlfriend to buy an imac for her next year of college. Domino effect i guess.
I also got a friend i knew in college a few years ago to switch to mac for photoshopping (he was already contemplating it, hes in visual arts). Biggest switch though, was my own father switching me.
I dont even remember what kind of hardware it was, but it had winblows 95 and i thought it was the greatest thing ever, of course until my dad brought home a performa 6400/200. Blown away. Thats when i started to get into digital music production. I had old MOTU systems and protools before it was even called protools, you remember THAT? All happy endings .
Why would I tell people to buy overpriced, underpowered pieces of crap ?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Simple, time is money. Both of the people that I help switch were sick and tired of crashes, crap not working, trying to figure things out, phone support. Neither one cared about Mhz, actually one of them didn't even know what that meant. They both just wanted it to work. A Mac is the most self-efficient computer than any other.
This coming October, I will have helped a 3rd person switch! Get this, he used to be a NT administrator (now sells real estate) and hasn't been in the computer scene for years. He wants me to help him next month and go to the Atlanta store to pick up a new MAC! We've had conversations about Mac/NT/Unix for months and he fell out, when I told him Macs are Unix now.
Okay, that's 3 people I have personally helped in switching. 2 this month, 1 next month. None of them have ever owned a Mac before!
Maybe Apple should have ads for the people who have helped people switch!
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I have personally firebombed 15 PC World stores. That sort of counts, doesn't it?
I also got a friend i knew in college a few years ago to switch to mac for photoshopping (he was already contemplating it, hes in visual arts). Biggest switch though, was my own father switching me.
I dont even remember what kind of hardware it was, but it had winblows 95 and i thought it was the greatest thing ever, of course until my dad brought home a performa 6400/200. Blown away. Thats when i started to get into digital music production. I had old MOTU systems and protools before it was even called protools, you remember THAT? All happy endings
Why would I tell people to buy overpriced, underpowered pieces of crap ?
<strong>ZERO!
Why would I tell people to buy overpriced, underpowered pieces of crap ?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Simple, time is money. Both of the people that I help switch were sick and tired of crashes, crap not working, trying to figure things out, phone support. Neither one cared about Mhz, actually one of them didn't even know what that meant. They both just wanted it to work. A Mac is the most self-efficient computer than any other.
<strong>ZERO!
Why would I tell people to buy overpriced, underpowered pieces of crap ?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Underpowered? Yes.
Overpriced? Maybe.
Piece of Crap? No.
I format them .. and show them my ibook..
And tell i won't format again..
And they wont get so much in trouble with a mac...
So maybe 3 to 4 .. the next computer they will buy will be a mac
I've also convinced a few people to switch to OS X.
This coming October, I will have helped a 3rd person switch! Get this, he used to be a NT administrator (now sells real estate) and hasn't been in the computer scene for years. He wants me to help him next month and go to the Atlanta store to pick up a new MAC! We've had conversations about Mac/NT/Unix for months and he fell out, when I told him Macs are Unix now.
Okay, that's 3 people I have personally helped in switching. 2 this month, 1 next month. None of them have ever owned a Mac before!