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When do you stop being a switcher ??
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Haha, I'm guilty of that. Somebody will have a problem with their Windows machine and I'll say, "Ok, first go into your control panel and uhhh.... and uhhhh... wait I've done this before. You uhhhh..... Ok go on Google and look for the solution."
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By MacHeadCase's definition, I was no longer a switcher once I copied all of my files from my PC to my Mac!I do miss being able to right-click a picture and set it as a wallpaper though.
If you have completely switched over, then shouldn't you not be thinking about that anymore? ;D I actually forgot that you could do that in Windoze. LOL. Now that I think about it, that's actually how I used to set wallpapers in Windows. Now I just go to my desktop active screen corner and right click on the desktop.
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You can with Safari 3
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Think I'll consider myself a switcher for a good long while yet.
All those years of gaming and building my own systems...
The early days had to learn how to create a separate boot disk for each game.
As time went on, learned how to tweak the OS from the registry to all those pesky services MS loads at startup that most folks do not need.
Overclocking, there's another whole vein of learning which parts to use and how to tweak them once you've built that high end box.
Then, didn't have anyone else in my circle of friends that even knew what msconfig was, much less have a clue on how to search the internet to fix little problems. So, everyone and their mother (literally) has had their computer visit my house over the years.
Today, don't know if my Mac has made me lazy, or I'm just gettin' old and just don't give a hoot.
Spent a month looking for stuff to tweak on my Mac. Didn't find much.
Then went to fiddling around with Linux on numerous occasions, that was even harder than all the tweaking I had learned for Windows. The Apple line "It just works", may be stretching it a bit. But, for the most part, it pretty much does. Haven't bothered with learning my way around the system files. For what?
I do have a desktop XP machine sitting in the other room. I have to tell you it's a great system. All that tweaking and overclocking stuff, it's been done to that rig. It is anywhere from 30-75% faster at some things when doing speed tests compared to my MBP. It is also sitting there connected to a 26" monitor. The monitor is now about 7 months old - and has less than 10 hours on it. The computer - it was disconnected from the monitor 2 months ago for some testing I was running, and still hasn't been reconnected.
Some of you will remember one of my posts here from a couple of weeks after I had gotten my MBP.
While not ready to say "better", can definitely say,
I like OS X...
All those years of gaming and building my own systems...
The early days had to learn how to create a separate boot disk for each game.
As time went on, learned how to tweak the OS from the registry to all those pesky services MS loads at startup that most folks do not need.
Overclocking, there's another whole vein of learning which parts to use and how to tweak them once you've built that high end box.
Then, didn't have anyone else in my circle of friends that even knew what msconfig was, much less have a clue on how to search the internet to fix little problems. So, everyone and their mother (literally) has had their computer visit my house over the years.
Today, don't know if my Mac has made me lazy, or I'm just gettin' old and just don't give a hoot.
Spent a month looking for stuff to tweak on my Mac. Didn't find much.
Then went to fiddling around with Linux on numerous occasions, that was even harder than all the tweaking I had learned for Windows. The Apple line "It just works", may be stretching it a bit. But, for the most part, it pretty much does. Haven't bothered with learning my way around the system files. For what?
I do have a desktop XP machine sitting in the other room. I have to tell you it's a great system. All that tweaking and overclocking stuff, it's been done to that rig. It is anywhere from 30-75% faster at some things when doing speed tests compared to my MBP. It is also sitting there connected to a 26" monitor. The monitor is now about 7 months old - and has less than 10 hours on it. The computer - it was disconnected from the monitor 2 months ago for some testing I was running, and still hasn't been reconnected.
Some of you will remember one of my posts here from a couple of weeks after I had gotten my MBP.
While not ready to say "better", can definitely say,
I like OS X...
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I feel the same way, but with me it's a matter of practicality and time. Ever since I discovered I could run my 166mmx Pentium at 208mhz by overclocking the MOBO to 83mhz, I've been hooked on tweaking.
Now it's, well do I spend 4 hours stripping down my rig, or go to a museum with a my wife. By a CPU that's 3% faster, for an extra $400, or spend a weekend mountain biking?
I think having a Mac has liberated me from spending 60% of my computer time tweaking, updating and downloading, and maybe only 40% of my time being productive. Now almost all of my time on the Mac is actually using it.
I do miss that world though, so like you I have a Linux install to play with on those rainy Sundays.
I feel the same way, but with me it's a matter of practicality and time. Ever since I discovered I could run my 166mmx Pentium at 208mhz by overclocking the MOBO to 83mhz, I've been hooked on tweaking.
Now it's, well do I spend 4 hours stripping down my rig, or go to a museum with a my wife. By a CPU that's 3% faster, for an extra $400, or spend a weekend mountain biking?
I think having a Mac has liberated me from spending 60% of my computer time tweaking, updating and downloading, and maybe only 40% of my time being productive. Now almost all of my time on the Mac is actually using it.
I do miss that world though, so like you I have a Linux install to play with on those rainy Sundays.
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