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Ok, other than price, I can no longer find any reason not to switch. Now that I have installed Boot Camp and XP Pro, the reasons are all gone.
My initial gripes were: Not being able to run AutoCAD, which I need for my profession, and not being able to play the one game I like, RTCW.
AutoCAD is not made in a mac version and the substitutes suck for an Acad user of 8 years.
The mac version of my game was horrible. The frame rates were awful.
I said macs suck for gaming and cad, but boy was I wrong. The truth is OSX has problems with games, not the hardware. The same game, with the same hardware, that ran horribly on OSX runs AWESOME on windows. Better than any computer I have owned yet, even with the cheap integrated graphics.
Autocad runs nearly as well on my macbook as it does on a very expensive cad PC at my office. I was really blown away to be honest.
So now that I can easily do the two things I missed, and happily enjoy the advantages that OSX / macs have for most things, I can't see a reason not to switch, other than price.
OSX is the ultimate experience for most of the things you do on a computer at home, or when working with multi-media. No doubt.
No crashes or virus / malware worries. If you or your other goes to adult sites, you would be CRAZY not to use a mac / osx. All the little tricks those sites pull on pc's / IE are powerless against osx / safari. If you want to use bitorrent, or limewire, FORGET windows. Trust me! You are going to get raped using windows, it is just a matter of time.
When working with video / audio / image editing, a mac is a dream come true. Perfect.
And now you can have windows there for those few things you need it for. Do yourself a favor and after updating everything disable the internet on the windows side. Spare your mac any damage from malware or viruses as I have done.
After loading in a trial version of xp pro and loving it in boot camp, I was still not willing to pay $300 for this insecure buggy os! When I realized I couldn't even do security updates without activation, I was almost ready to slipstream corporate with sp2 and be done with it! But just then a window from MS popped up offering a full license for xp pro for $149, and my honest side took over, and I paid. I prefer legal software, and don't want to steal really, I just don't want to get raped either. Paying $300 for xp when leopard is going to be like $129 is just WRONG!
But they did the smart thing, and made a reasonable offer, and prevented someone like myself who is capable of overcoming their security measures, from going the wrong way. Let's be honest, a lot of people don't want to pay an outrageous price for xp with all of its issues, and that is part of the piracy issue.
With everything in place I just can't think of a single reason other than price not to make the switch. If you want the best computers going, and are willing to pay for the best, buy apple. And no, I am not an apple koolaid drinker. I started building pc's heavily when windows 95 came out and kept doing it through xp. I got my mcse cert, a+, network +, etc. Built nt and win2000 server network including server hardware, ran the cable, punched down the connections, the whole works. I know windows as good as any fool that is going to say macs suck windows rules, etc., and can tell you you won't go wrong buying an apple.
There is a reason the ipod for instance, outsells every other mp3 player ten to one. It is the human interface. Same goes for OSX / macs. The Steve Jobs touch. Hopefully he will be cloned before he dies.
If you don't like to learn new things and get frustrated with technology easily, then maybe you need to stick with windows on your next computer though. Just make sure you have a full evening set aside for the 100+ updates / patches you are going to need to install before you can surf the net in reasonable safety. Even then you go to the wrong site once and you will have virtumonde, which no antivirus can remove, and you will be reformatting your hard drive unless you have some serious skills. Better keep the important stuff backed up too, because you WILL be reformatting that drive eventually.
I think my macbook is the best thing since sliced bread, and I like bread a lot.
My initial gripes were: Not being able to run AutoCAD, which I need for my profession, and not being able to play the one game I like, RTCW.
AutoCAD is not made in a mac version and the substitutes suck for an Acad user of 8 years.
The mac version of my game was horrible. The frame rates were awful.
I said macs suck for gaming and cad, but boy was I wrong. The truth is OSX has problems with games, not the hardware. The same game, with the same hardware, that ran horribly on OSX runs AWESOME on windows. Better than any computer I have owned yet, even with the cheap integrated graphics.
Autocad runs nearly as well on my macbook as it does on a very expensive cad PC at my office. I was really blown away to be honest.
So now that I can easily do the two things I missed, and happily enjoy the advantages that OSX / macs have for most things, I can't see a reason not to switch, other than price.
OSX is the ultimate experience for most of the things you do on a computer at home, or when working with multi-media. No doubt.
No crashes or virus / malware worries. If you or your other goes to adult sites, you would be CRAZY not to use a mac / osx. All the little tricks those sites pull on pc's / IE are powerless against osx / safari. If you want to use bitorrent, or limewire, FORGET windows. Trust me! You are going to get raped using windows, it is just a matter of time.
When working with video / audio / image editing, a mac is a dream come true. Perfect.
And now you can have windows there for those few things you need it for. Do yourself a favor and after updating everything disable the internet on the windows side. Spare your mac any damage from malware or viruses as I have done.
After loading in a trial version of xp pro and loving it in boot camp, I was still not willing to pay $300 for this insecure buggy os! When I realized I couldn't even do security updates without activation, I was almost ready to slipstream corporate with sp2 and be done with it! But just then a window from MS popped up offering a full license for xp pro for $149, and my honest side took over, and I paid. I prefer legal software, and don't want to steal really, I just don't want to get raped either. Paying $300 for xp when leopard is going to be like $129 is just WRONG!
But they did the smart thing, and made a reasonable offer, and prevented someone like myself who is capable of overcoming their security measures, from going the wrong way. Let's be honest, a lot of people don't want to pay an outrageous price for xp with all of its issues, and that is part of the piracy issue.
With everything in place I just can't think of a single reason other than price not to make the switch. If you want the best computers going, and are willing to pay for the best, buy apple. And no, I am not an apple koolaid drinker. I started building pc's heavily when windows 95 came out and kept doing it through xp. I got my mcse cert, a+, network +, etc. Built nt and win2000 server network including server hardware, ran the cable, punched down the connections, the whole works. I know windows as good as any fool that is going to say macs suck windows rules, etc., and can tell you you won't go wrong buying an apple.
There is a reason the ipod for instance, outsells every other mp3 player ten to one. It is the human interface. Same goes for OSX / macs. The Steve Jobs touch. Hopefully he will be cloned before he dies.
If you don't like to learn new things and get frustrated with technology easily, then maybe you need to stick with windows on your next computer though. Just make sure you have a full evening set aside for the 100+ updates / patches you are going to need to install before you can surf the net in reasonable safety. Even then you go to the wrong site once and you will have virtumonde, which no antivirus can remove, and you will be reformatting your hard drive unless you have some serious skills. Better keep the important stuff backed up too, because you WILL be reformatting that drive eventually.
I think my macbook is the best thing since sliced bread, and I like bread a lot.