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samoan_ridah
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Okay, so on Tuesday I went out and picked up a new 24" iMac. The thing is beautiful and looks like it belongs in an art gallery. Being a PC man since I reached the age of technical awareness (about 12 years old in the early 90's), the transition has been rough, to say the least.
I thought after a few days I would be loving this thing but instead I keep getting more and more frustrated. On a PC, I can do just about anything backward and forward faster than just about anyone I know. I have learned how to find different ways to perform any given task and use that to my advantage when trouble finds me. I know it may not always be the easiest way to do things but it works and I can do it pretty fast so who cares, right?
Well, now I get this iMac and I have this feeling like I'm too advanced for it. Is that possible or am I just being an arrogant Microsoft-loving techo-nerd? I just feel like everything is "dumbed down" and I hate it. I'll give you a perfect example, digital photos.
I have about 9,000 digital images stored on my PC that I meticulously organized into 12 different categories and then further sub-categorized by date or event. This system has worked perfectly for me when I would later need to pull them up for printing or for working with projects. Life was so great...and then there was iPhoto.
I can understand how this might be good for some non-techie person that doesn't know how to create folders and move files around but for me it is just irritating. To make things worse, Apple basically forces you to use it if you have any desire to use your photos with other programs such as iDVD or iMovie. Instead of having my pictures neatly organized in a simple hierarchical structure, it is now just one big messy hodge podge! Even when you go to save a file it only lets you choose a "main" directory instead of being able to go down a level or two.
Am I just frustrated because I'm a beginner or is this feeling going to stay? When I really think about it, I don't have a problem doing things the hard way, which is why I think I have been so successful with PC's. I just don't like feeling like I'm being held back from digging in deeper because everything has been idiot-proofed beyond recognition. I want to be able to customize and organize the way I want to, not the way Apple thinks I want to.
Maybe I'm feeling some sort of betrayal to my technical (read heavenly) father, Bill Gates. I just can't help feeling I'm going to regret not buying a nice kick-*** PC system with Vista on it for way less than the hefty $2500 chunk dropped on the Mac.
Okay, so the whole point of this thread was really to ask if anyone knows what the return policy is on these things...
TIA
-Brian
I thought after a few days I would be loving this thing but instead I keep getting more and more frustrated. On a PC, I can do just about anything backward and forward faster than just about anyone I know. I have learned how to find different ways to perform any given task and use that to my advantage when trouble finds me. I know it may not always be the easiest way to do things but it works and I can do it pretty fast so who cares, right?
Well, now I get this iMac and I have this feeling like I'm too advanced for it. Is that possible or am I just being an arrogant Microsoft-loving techo-nerd? I just feel like everything is "dumbed down" and I hate it. I'll give you a perfect example, digital photos.
I have about 9,000 digital images stored on my PC that I meticulously organized into 12 different categories and then further sub-categorized by date or event. This system has worked perfectly for me when I would later need to pull them up for printing or for working with projects. Life was so great...and then there was iPhoto.
I can understand how this might be good for some non-techie person that doesn't know how to create folders and move files around but for me it is just irritating. To make things worse, Apple basically forces you to use it if you have any desire to use your photos with other programs such as iDVD or iMovie. Instead of having my pictures neatly organized in a simple hierarchical structure, it is now just one big messy hodge podge! Even when you go to save a file it only lets you choose a "main" directory instead of being able to go down a level or two.
Am I just frustrated because I'm a beginner or is this feeling going to stay? When I really think about it, I don't have a problem doing things the hard way, which is why I think I have been so successful with PC's. I just don't like feeling like I'm being held back from digging in deeper because everything has been idiot-proofed beyond recognition. I want to be able to customize and organize the way I want to, not the way Apple thinks I want to.
Maybe I'm feeling some sort of betrayal to my technical (read heavenly) father, Bill Gates. I just can't help feeling I'm going to regret not buying a nice kick-*** PC system with Vista on it for way less than the hefty $2500 chunk dropped on the Mac.
Okay, so the whole point of this thread was really to ask if anyone knows what the return policy is on these things...
TIA
-Brian