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nesdon
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I've used macs a lot. A couple of my jobs have been mac only, and so I was forced to use them. There was alot to like, but as someone with his feet in both worlds, and as a very longtime win user (for years win was the only game in laptops ) much of the derision heaped on win by mac users is untrue, and has made me leary to switch my personal laptop.
I want a good computer, not to join some church. The most unstable machine I have ever used was a imac and I've seen just as many folks cursing at their locked up macs as winpcs. My daughter used a 500mhz win2000 laptop all through 4 years in the ivy league, and watched every one of her 5 roomates pricey ibooks die before they graduated, while the little sony she had used in HS is still working fine (how she can survive with a 9gb system drive is beyond me), so for all the mac users who have no win experience and just parrot the slander, don't even bother.
But I teach design at a film school, and Final Cut Pro is a bit of a must. I do appreciate the macstyle thing, look forward to a more secure trojan free workspace and I would like to support apple's superior corporate ethic. I may find more of the hype to actually be true, and find my former disapointment with the mac cult BS dissolve once I own my own machine, but the extra cost is a real consideration for me, and I don't want to end up hamstrung.
Now with macbooks, I can continue to run my dataflex database and other win software I have a long investment in, and still join your snooty mac club. I know that Bootcamp builds driver patches but how well will it work as a win machine. Will it plug and play with other perpherals? Will it run vista?
I want to switch, I need a new machine, and I am on the verge. I love macs, I have always thought they were great machines. But as you can tell, I've been very put off by the silly "my os can beat up your os" thing, especially when in so many ways it just hasn't been true.
I've seen a couple of ads on ebay where people say they are selling their macbooks because they need a win enviornment for work. With bootcamp, I don't see why this should be true (I'm in the same boat, and will apparently need win to access some of my company's network features). Can some of the less zealous of you convince me that I should take the plunge and get a macbook pro, or even perhaps, that with my bad attitude that I should not.
I want a good computer, not to join some church. The most unstable machine I have ever used was a imac and I've seen just as many folks cursing at their locked up macs as winpcs. My daughter used a 500mhz win2000 laptop all through 4 years in the ivy league, and watched every one of her 5 roomates pricey ibooks die before they graduated, while the little sony she had used in HS is still working fine (how she can survive with a 9gb system drive is beyond me), so for all the mac users who have no win experience and just parrot the slander, don't even bother.
But I teach design at a film school, and Final Cut Pro is a bit of a must. I do appreciate the macstyle thing, look forward to a more secure trojan free workspace and I would like to support apple's superior corporate ethic. I may find more of the hype to actually be true, and find my former disapointment with the mac cult BS dissolve once I own my own machine, but the extra cost is a real consideration for me, and I don't want to end up hamstrung.
Now with macbooks, I can continue to run my dataflex database and other win software I have a long investment in, and still join your snooty mac club. I know that Bootcamp builds driver patches but how well will it work as a win machine. Will it plug and play with other perpherals? Will it run vista?
I want to switch, I need a new machine, and I am on the verge. I love macs, I have always thought they were great machines. But as you can tell, I've been very put off by the silly "my os can beat up your os" thing, especially when in so many ways it just hasn't been true.
I've seen a couple of ads on ebay where people say they are selling their macbooks because they need a win enviornment for work. With bootcamp, I don't see why this should be true (I'm in the same boat, and will apparently need win to access some of my company's network features). Can some of the less zealous of you convince me that I should take the plunge and get a macbook pro, or even perhaps, that with my bad attitude that I should not.