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- Nick

Slydude said:

Welcome Woz and Joel K. You should find a lot of useful info and helpful folks here.

@Woz. Are you sure there's no relation? Oh well, guess that means no Apple swag for the moderation team.

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I'm positive. Back in the day, I would get asked that question every time I visited a Radio Shack. I'm showing my age, aren't I?

Woz said:

I'm positive. Back in the day, I would get asked that question every time I visited a Radio Shack. I'm showing my age, aren't I?

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Hi Woz - welcome to the forum! I used to love visiting Radio Shack for many reasons, but their decline is sad (one of many graphs that could be found shown below) - but please participate in the forum - plenty of great people here and feel free to post - there are no stupid questions, just those that are not asked - Dave
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Hi all! I'm a retired IT consultant doing some web sites to keep my mind in computers. I enjoy photography birds and travel. I've been a long time use of Macs and iPhoto. I'm hoping to learn a lot about both in this forum. I hope I'm in the right thread to introduce myself.

Welcome Richinwalla.

Yes…this is the right place.

- Nick

Hi. I'm Jill from the UK.

Hubby just got me a second-hand iMac 27-inch. I've been using a PC for a few decades now, but am quickly coming to grips with the differences! I've always been into graphics and the difference between PC and Mac is, well, WOW! Sadly, I only just found out that CorelDraw don't do a Mac version I really don't want to put Windows on my Mac so will simply use our PC laptop for that and a couple of other programs that don't do Mac.

Thanks for this forum - it's great!

Hi Jill

A warm welcome to the Forums.

Whilst I'm not into Corel Draw, the following links provide what others consider possible Mac alternatives:

http://alternativeto.net/software/corel-draw/?platform=mac
https://blog.udemy.com/illustrator-alternative/
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4244674?tstart=0
http://formac.informer.com/coreldraw-graphics-suite

Obviously, there is some overlap between the sites, but there might be something there that is worth a look.

I'm also from the UK. Enjoy your Mac.

Ian

Thanks Ian! I'll certainly check those out!

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Hey everyone, I am Jared from the US (eastern NC).

I am a software engineering graduate student, father of 2 (soon to be 3) and I am finishing up my enlistment in the Air Force. I was a die-hard Windows and Linux (Ubuntu and Mint) PC user for my 25 years on this planet and last summer my wife really wanted the new MacBook so I got her one as an anniversary present. Well I used it a few times and couldn't help really liking it so I finally bit the bullet and bought a 13" MacBook Pro with retina display. So far I love it and I don't think I will be going to Windows anytime soon, especially after the frankensystem that was Win8.

Regards,

Jared

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Hey everyone, I am Jared from the US (eastern NC).

I am a software engineering graduate student, father of 2 (soon to be 3) and I am finishing up my enlistment in the Air Force. I was a die-hard Windows and Linux (Ubuntu and Mint) PC user for my 25 years on this planet and last summer my wife really wanted the new MacBook so I got her one as an anniversary present. Well I used it a few times and couldn't help really liking it so I finally bit the bullet and bought a 13" MacBook Pro with retina display. So far I love it and I don't think I will be going to Windows anytime soon, especially after the frankensystem that was Win8.

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Hi Jared - welcome to the forum! I'm in Piedmont, NC (Winston Salem), now retired from an academic position at the Wake Forest Medical School - started out on an Apple II+ in 1980, then our department switched to PCs which I was on for over 3 decades - now in retirement, wife & I are now an ALL-Apple family (iPads, iPhone, iMac, & MBPro, the latter for me + an Apple Extreme Router) - hope that you enjoy - Dave

Intro Post

Hi All,

I just moved to Denver from Los Angeles and am now working remotely for the first time using my mid-2014 Macbook Pro. I've owned iPhones/iPads since '09 or so, but I'd been using PCs since the 386 and was resistant to migrating over to Mac. I'm so glad I finally made the change. The last year has been fantastic.

Welcome milehigh. Your story/background sounds very similar to many of our members.

- Nick

Hey all!
First time mac user here. Finally bit the bullet and got myself a Macbook! Hows it all going?
Your friendly neighbourhood calju.

Welcome caiju!

Hope you are enjoying your new Macbook and welcome to the forum!

Lisa

Another Newbie

Hello to all, my name is Kenny a transplant from Buffalo, NY now living in Florida. Have been wanting to come to the dark side for a while and finally made the plunge with a air 2 for wife but she's having me learn everything to teach her. Have been on computers from the DOS days in the 70's. I guess really money is what has kept me in Win all these years.

Kenny

What part of Florida, Kenny? I lived all over that state for many years before emigrating to Canada.

Chas_m, I'm on the gulf side around Crystal River. It's about 80 miles north of Tampa. My wife has family in Ontario which we've spent a lot of time there when we lived up north. She also has family on Vancouver Island too.

Kenny

kennyleri said:

Have been wanting to come to the dark side...

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Welcome Kenny. We (Apple/Macintosh) are not the dark side!

- Nick

Hey Nick, was all in jest!

Kenny

kennyleri said:

Hey Nick, was all in jest!

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You should use a "smiley" when jesting.

By the way. At one time I used to live in Westfield, NY (just down Route 90 a bit from Buffalo).

- Nick