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- 3/11 17" MBP 8g/500 Glossy, IPod Touch 4thgen 8gig, 32Gig Verizon 3G + WiFi IPadII
Howdy all.
Not really a switcher but an adder.
Am anticipating my first Mac, a 17" MBP that is likely over the Pacific right now enroute from Shanghai.
I'm a PC user since 1989. Not into the jihadist stuff or us vs them, I consider neither better, just different. OK, a visit to the Mac store in Reston, VA did impress me with some things that are better, starting at the start (impressive boot speed!) and the continuous comments about "you'll love it" and that a lot of things are handled for you. I can fix a lot of stuff, and MS has gotten some of the message and actually improved things XP and later (vista notwithstanding) but sometimes I'm just not interested in maintainence and clueless dialogs (on my older machines, I have not upgraded to 7 yet but will shortly.)
Being an Access programmer, I do not anticipate ever being without a PC. I know about the dual boot, but in a sign of an open mind, I am keeping my new Mac Mac-pure. No dual boot, no MS software. I do wish to indulge a pure Mac experience in order to keep my objectivity. So, my home editions of Access will stay on the PC. If the case presented and experience are what I expect, I will likely use the Mac primarily for most everyday use, in no small part because it will also be my newest machine.
It is with the basic 2.2 processor, the quad core I7, and I bumped it up to 8g of ram. I took the remote, a copy of Bento and the glossy hi-rez. I did strongly desire a lit keyboard. I can type like the wind but still occasionally need to look. So the keyboard is eagerly anticipated since I'm a late night low light huddler. I knocked the HD back to 500 so I could get the higher RPM.
I took iwork to go with the iLife. Because iWork claims to both open and saveAs .docs and .xls files, it allowed me to skip MS Office. As a contractor I need to be able to open and edit resumes and have always been an Excel junkie for figuring out things big and small, business and personal. if iWork handles all that, I can go on vacation or a road trip and be able to react if new work comes in. Confidence is high.
I do own a hi quality Sony HD vidcam which will dump stills and vids. I want to surf with greater speed and less virus risk and believe the Mac will handle that well. I have an older but still competant Kodak still digicam. I already own a wireless Epson of the kind that Apple seems to hawk with new purchases and it has been standard for more than awhile that mac will run all my existing periperals.
I am in a rural PITA internet zone. I have to pay about 60 a month for a Verizon cellular USB wand, and I'm hoping it will not only work when I plug it into the Mac but that it may also generate a Wifi signal so I can sit in the living room with other devices (have not fallen for the iPadII yet but iI'm thinking about it). We shall see.
I'm glad you're all here. i'm glad there's still a two-platform world because I honestly think the two make each other better. MS would be far worse off without Mac for a competition, and equally so MS failings make a niche for MAc to exploit. God help us if we lose either one. I can see some very cool stuff that Mac is doing and they've certainly made the case for me or I wouldnt be here, and MS has given me more than 16 years of employment doing useful programming. Maybe I'm just a tech geek.
I am salivating for the little monster to arrive and will let you all know how it goes or if I need to replace any broken windows (no pun intended) if I decide to toss my pc's out of one!
Standby, I'm sure there'll be questions though I have read the awesome FAC up top. Good reference.
Not really a switcher but an adder.
Am anticipating my first Mac, a 17" MBP that is likely over the Pacific right now enroute from Shanghai.
I'm a PC user since 1989. Not into the jihadist stuff or us vs them, I consider neither better, just different. OK, a visit to the Mac store in Reston, VA did impress me with some things that are better, starting at the start (impressive boot speed!) and the continuous comments about "you'll love it" and that a lot of things are handled for you. I can fix a lot of stuff, and MS has gotten some of the message and actually improved things XP and later (vista notwithstanding) but sometimes I'm just not interested in maintainence and clueless dialogs (on my older machines, I have not upgraded to 7 yet but will shortly.)
Being an Access programmer, I do not anticipate ever being without a PC. I know about the dual boot, but in a sign of an open mind, I am keeping my new Mac Mac-pure. No dual boot, no MS software. I do wish to indulge a pure Mac experience in order to keep my objectivity. So, my home editions of Access will stay on the PC. If the case presented and experience are what I expect, I will likely use the Mac primarily for most everyday use, in no small part because it will also be my newest machine.
It is with the basic 2.2 processor, the quad core I7, and I bumped it up to 8g of ram. I took the remote, a copy of Bento and the glossy hi-rez. I did strongly desire a lit keyboard. I can type like the wind but still occasionally need to look. So the keyboard is eagerly anticipated since I'm a late night low light huddler. I knocked the HD back to 500 so I could get the higher RPM.
I took iwork to go with the iLife. Because iWork claims to both open and saveAs .docs and .xls files, it allowed me to skip MS Office. As a contractor I need to be able to open and edit resumes and have always been an Excel junkie for figuring out things big and small, business and personal. if iWork handles all that, I can go on vacation or a road trip and be able to react if new work comes in. Confidence is high.
I do own a hi quality Sony HD vidcam which will dump stills and vids. I want to surf with greater speed and less virus risk and believe the Mac will handle that well. I have an older but still competant Kodak still digicam. I already own a wireless Epson of the kind that Apple seems to hawk with new purchases and it has been standard for more than awhile that mac will run all my existing periperals.
I am in a rural PITA internet zone. I have to pay about 60 a month for a Verizon cellular USB wand, and I'm hoping it will not only work when I plug it into the Mac but that it may also generate a Wifi signal so I can sit in the living room with other devices (have not fallen for the iPadII yet but iI'm thinking about it). We shall see.
I'm glad you're all here. i'm glad there's still a two-platform world because I honestly think the two make each other better. MS would be far worse off without Mac for a competition, and equally so MS failings make a niche for MAc to exploit. God help us if we lose either one. I can see some very cool stuff that Mac is doing and they've certainly made the case for me or I wouldnt be here, and MS has given me more than 16 years of employment doing useful programming. Maybe I'm just a tech geek.
I am salivating for the little monster to arrive and will let you all know how it goes or if I need to replace any broken windows (no pun intended) if I decide to toss my pc's out of one!
Standby, I'm sure there'll be questions though I have read the awesome FAC up top. Good reference.