I have been an avid pc user for 16 years. Most of my technical knowledge of pc’s came from working at best buy in college. I was in sales at first then made it to the geek squad when they first rolled out in 2004. Shortly after that I remember best buy also announcing they were going to start selling apple computers. We all knew they were not going to sell well as we made it a goal to keep people away from purchasing Macs. Best buy didn’t make much off of them. I carried this negative attitude toward Macs with me for years until I got a job at Mac mall. I learned so much there about apple in general. I think over the years I had always wanted a Mac. I used to order the catalogs and fanaticize about owning one one day. : s
This past Friday I purchased my first Mac. I had been searching for months on craigslist for the right one. As I was about to settle for a G4 something told me to see who was selling their g5 for cheap? $400 I lucked out. I found a guy selling a Power Mac g5 dual 1.8 with 2 gigs of memory with a 250 hdd super drive with dual monitor set up. Plus it was loaded with software that I needed. Final cut 6, iwork, ilife, etc. . In film school I was the only one using adobe premiere. I knew I would have to familiarize myself with final cut at some point. Since buying the G5, I feel like replacing all my pc’s with (Intel) Macs. I could not stop playing with it this past weekend. As I am typing this, I am thinking about it right now. It’s a feeling almost like when I first met my wife. I can’t wait to get home to it. To see it. To hear the start up chime. Maybe I’m being excessive or it could be the fact that it’s just something new. Nevertheless, I am in love with it. Even though it is not brand new I feel fortunate to own one. I had planned on it replacing my desktop pc but due to the current requirements of adobe premiere and after effects for Mac I cannot. I still use premiere and after effects quite a bits o I bought a KVM Switch. I also fix PC’s on the side so I would still have to stay up to date. But I love my new (used) Mac next thing for me will be notebook. I honestly don’t know if I’d ever buy a PC again.;D
This past Friday I purchased my first Mac. I had been searching for months on craigslist for the right one. As I was about to settle for a G4 something told me to see who was selling their g5 for cheap? $400 I lucked out. I found a guy selling a Power Mac g5 dual 1.8 with 2 gigs of memory with a 250 hdd super drive with dual monitor set up. Plus it was loaded with software that I needed. Final cut 6, iwork, ilife, etc. . In film school I was the only one using adobe premiere. I knew I would have to familiarize myself with final cut at some point. Since buying the G5, I feel like replacing all my pc’s with (Intel) Macs. I could not stop playing with it this past weekend. As I am typing this, I am thinking about it right now. It’s a feeling almost like when I first met my wife. I can’t wait to get home to it. To see it. To hear the start up chime. Maybe I’m being excessive or it could be the fact that it’s just something new. Nevertheless, I am in love with it. Even though it is not brand new I feel fortunate to own one. I had planned on it replacing my desktop pc but due to the current requirements of adobe premiere and after effects for Mac I cannot. I still use premiere and after effects quite a bits o I bought a KVM Switch. I also fix PC’s on the side so I would still have to stay up to date. But I love my new (used) Mac next thing for me will be notebook. I honestly don’t know if I’d ever buy a PC again.;D