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If one comes to these forums and doesn't take into consideration that the majority of messages being posted are people with problems they would soon get the idea that the Mac is a pile of junk. By far the majority of Mac users do not have these problems so they don't write any messages and you tend to think they don't exist and the Mac is junk.
Messages like the one "switched to Mac and going back" tend to give a very bad picture of the Mac computer, and while many people have problems, by far more don't. You see the same thing, and many times the same people writting the same complaints on any pc forum. The majority of the pc magazines i see are filled with articles on how to fix what is wrong with windows and the pc in general. They don't spend their time telling you how to best use your pc, rather how to fix it.
Just for a little of balance, let me tell you about my experience in switching from the pc world to the Mac world. I have used computers of one flavor or another for well over 20 years. I lived in the San Jose area back in the early days of Apple and Atari, and a few others... right smack in the middle of the so called silicone Valley. I didn't start out with apple, but i almost did.
After over ten years of pc computers and winders i finally had enough of the crashes. "General fault" was a personal friend back in the winders 3.1 days and the ol "blue screen of death" was well known in my house all the way up through winders Nt. Winders 2K was a welcome relief and things started working a bit better for me then and along came Winders Xp, which is the best by far of the Winders line, but far to often i found myself rebooting because a bad program had frozen my system, or Xp itself had just decided it was time to reboot. Between the operating system problems and the constant virus programs and hackers taking advantage of the flaws of anything winders I finally had enough.
Last year the day after Thanksgiving I went down to my local Comp Usa store and purchased myself a PowerMac G5 2.0. I brought it home and was imediatly impressed even with the box it came in. Packing was wonderful i had never seen anything like it. My God the cardboard is thicker than my desk...
Being used to a lot of flash from Pc's i wasn't that impressed at first by the looks of this rather plain Jane silver/gray thing sitting in front of me. Then for the first time I took the side cover off and looked inside. What a work of art looked back at me. Everything was so neat and clean looking, not at all like the tangled mess i see when i open a pc... I could not believe what I was looking at... how the fans slide out and get you so much room to add some extra ram like that...soooo easy!! What's this, my God! all you do is slide the second hard drive in there and just turn that lever, then...Whoa, there is the power and data lines right there!!! How easy was that!!
The only problem i have had with the G5 was a hard drive problem... not the one that came with it, but the one i added. For some reason I started getting some file corruption on that drive, so i pulled it out and stuck in a new one and problem solved. This baby runs from 4am to about 7pm 7 days a week and no problems whatever. The OS seems to be quite solid and i find I can do many things under OS X that i could not do in XP. It is one of the quietest systems I have ever had. Even when the fans come up to high speed to cool the system it is still one of the quietest.
Plug and Pray with the Pc has now turned to Plug and Play with the Mac. Every thing i have plugged has just worked... I use a Microsoft wireless keyboard, a Logitech wireless mouse, a Maxtor external hard drive, an Epson scanner, a Creative sound system and a Linksys router, an Hp 4550 color laser, and an Hp 2440 black laser, and Corsair ram, and a Sansung flat panel. Everything just worked when hooked up...
I was so impressed with my PowerMac G5 that just before Christmas I took the wife back to Comp Usa and bought her an iMac G5 1.8. Brought it home, poped the back off and stuck in another stick of Corsair ram, bringing it up to 768. It runs 24 hours a day 7 days a week and has given no problems what ever. Runs like a top, quiet as a mouse, and so far everything we have plugged in just works. A thing of beauty sits on her desk.
I will keep my last home built pc, a gamer using the Amd 64 bit chip, water cooled and fancy lights and all for games, but i am now and will always be a Mac user. I'm by far not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but i know a good thing when i see it.
So, remember new people, just cause you see a lot of complaints on these forums, that don't mean the Mac isn't worth a look. Go to any pc forum you will find the same, if not worse.
Messages like the one "switched to Mac and going back" tend to give a very bad picture of the Mac computer, and while many people have problems, by far more don't. You see the same thing, and many times the same people writting the same complaints on any pc forum. The majority of the pc magazines i see are filled with articles on how to fix what is wrong with windows and the pc in general. They don't spend their time telling you how to best use your pc, rather how to fix it.
Just for a little of balance, let me tell you about my experience in switching from the pc world to the Mac world. I have used computers of one flavor or another for well over 20 years. I lived in the San Jose area back in the early days of Apple and Atari, and a few others... right smack in the middle of the so called silicone Valley. I didn't start out with apple, but i almost did.
After over ten years of pc computers and winders i finally had enough of the crashes. "General fault" was a personal friend back in the winders 3.1 days and the ol "blue screen of death" was well known in my house all the way up through winders Nt. Winders 2K was a welcome relief and things started working a bit better for me then and along came Winders Xp, which is the best by far of the Winders line, but far to often i found myself rebooting because a bad program had frozen my system, or Xp itself had just decided it was time to reboot. Between the operating system problems and the constant virus programs and hackers taking advantage of the flaws of anything winders I finally had enough.
Last year the day after Thanksgiving I went down to my local Comp Usa store and purchased myself a PowerMac G5 2.0. I brought it home and was imediatly impressed even with the box it came in. Packing was wonderful i had never seen anything like it. My God the cardboard is thicker than my desk...
Being used to a lot of flash from Pc's i wasn't that impressed at first by the looks of this rather plain Jane silver/gray thing sitting in front of me. Then for the first time I took the side cover off and looked inside. What a work of art looked back at me. Everything was so neat and clean looking, not at all like the tangled mess i see when i open a pc... I could not believe what I was looking at... how the fans slide out and get you so much room to add some extra ram like that...soooo easy!! What's this, my God! all you do is slide the second hard drive in there and just turn that lever, then...Whoa, there is the power and data lines right there!!! How easy was that!!
The only problem i have had with the G5 was a hard drive problem... not the one that came with it, but the one i added. For some reason I started getting some file corruption on that drive, so i pulled it out and stuck in a new one and problem solved. This baby runs from 4am to about 7pm 7 days a week and no problems whatever. The OS seems to be quite solid and i find I can do many things under OS X that i could not do in XP. It is one of the quietest systems I have ever had. Even when the fans come up to high speed to cool the system it is still one of the quietest.
Plug and Pray with the Pc has now turned to Plug and Play with the Mac. Every thing i have plugged has just worked... I use a Microsoft wireless keyboard, a Logitech wireless mouse, a Maxtor external hard drive, an Epson scanner, a Creative sound system and a Linksys router, an Hp 4550 color laser, and an Hp 2440 black laser, and Corsair ram, and a Sansung flat panel. Everything just worked when hooked up...
I was so impressed with my PowerMac G5 that just before Christmas I took the wife back to Comp Usa and bought her an iMac G5 1.8. Brought it home, poped the back off and stuck in another stick of Corsair ram, bringing it up to 768. It runs 24 hours a day 7 days a week and has given no problems what ever. Runs like a top, quiet as a mouse, and so far everything we have plugged in just works. A thing of beauty sits on her desk.
I will keep my last home built pc, a gamer using the Amd 64 bit chip, water cooled and fancy lights and all for games, but i am now and will always be a Mac user. I'm by far not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but i know a good thing when i see it.
So, remember new people, just cause you see a lot of complaints on these forums, that don't mean the Mac isn't worth a look. Go to any pc forum you will find the same, if not worse.