01-24-2005, 11:22 AM

As a recent convert and lurker, I would like to say hello and thank the people in this forum for all the great info that helped in the decision process.

After many years as a PC user I finally pulled the string on a 17” 1.8 Ghz iMac. I had no experience with Macs except for some time I spent on an Apple Lisa circa 1985. But I don’t really think that counts, it was so long ago. I must say that this thing is intuitive, plenty powerful for my needs and quite attractive. I love being back on UNIX (although I forgot a lot).

I have already enjoyed several days of use without having to install “upgrades”, run Spybot: Search and Destroy and upgrade my anti-virus. It appears to be true what people say about Macs. They just work.

My son is not happy with me though. Being a computer science major and gamer, he is PC entrenched. I have received much abuse. Ironically, he was home for the weekend and seriously missing his PC at school to play WoW. So finally he broke down and loaded it on the iMac. I still kept getting abuse from him. So after playing the game for a while I asked him how it ran. All I ever got out of him was he hated the mouse. That’s it, the mouse. I just think he had to find something…

Anyway, I did find one flaw. The iMac is so small it renders the packing box unusable for storage.

I am sure that I will have questions to ask and hopefully as I learn, I’ll be able to answer some questions as well. Thanks again.

01-24-2005, 11:51 AM

congrats on the switch and new imac.:mac:

01-24-2005, 01:21 PM

Grats

Get a Microsoft mouse for it, that should shut him up

01-24-2005, 01:26 PM

Congrats! If the mouse thing ever starts to bug you get the mouse we've been talking about int this thread: apple two button mouse??

It's a two button mouse with a scroll wheel and can be had in either USB or BT. Best part... it perfectly matches the original.

-Chris

01-24-2005, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by Gryphonz

My son is not happy with me though. Being a computer science major and gamer, he is PC entrenched. I have received much abuse.

First congrats on your new system of choice.

If you son is only using PCs in his major, then he has a problem. Most computer majors will run into different flavors of operating systems. M$ windows being just one of them.

01-24-2005, 04:52 PM

I have to agree about the mouse, especially when you are used to 2 button mice with scroll wheels-- it feels like you've had one of your fingers cut off when you try to use a single button mouse. You'd think that Apple would have produced a two button mouse by now. Anyways, as a computer science major I'd think he'd love that the system is based on Unix, but maybe he didn't have time to get into the guts of the OS.

01-24-2005, 05:01 PM

I have a hp desktop (2years old) that came with an optical serial mouse, already had a microsoft optical us b 2 mouse, just plugged it in to my powerbook no drivers works great until I can get a bt mouse that I want.

01-26-2005, 08:22 AM

Thanks for the welcome...

As far a the mouse goes, I am getting used to the one button and actually liking it.