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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 292013" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>This is my first post here, and only adding on here due to the similarity in cwa107 and my experiences.</p><p>Started with a TI 99 if anyone remembers when TI was in the computer business. Am a game player from way back, and by the time of 95 had already started building my own systems. Could handle upgrading, but couldn't handle buying a new system every 9 months or so to play that new game I had my eyes on back then.</p><p></p><p>Not in the IT field, but did spend a couple of years doing tech support for Dell and MS (98SE days).</p><p></p><p>"To me, Vista is the last straw. Draconian DRM schemes, a gussied-up GUI"</p><p></p><p>That's what has really got me also. Have spent time over the last 3 months playing with multiple flavors of Linux for the umpteenth time since around '97. It's almost there, and really enjoy all the tweaking available, but with not enough time available to start searching the web and reading for hours to accomplish some tasks and no interest in going back to the Dos days, no thanks.</p><p></p><p>The kid got him an iMac, so I took the plunge with the MacBook Pro yesterday. That and the fact that to get the same processor and video card on a PC notebook, the price couldn't be touched (Dell for example would have been an extra $700 minimum). </p><p></p><p>So far so good except for 1) taking me a whole day to figure out there "ARE" right click menus available on this thing (after I plugged in a spare mouse) and 2) just now while writing this took a chance and discovered how to use the delete key in both directions.</p><p></p><p>Overall, after one day of tweaking, installing a few needed apps (only took me an hour to figure that one out), am pretty impressed with looks, feel and build quality. Nice features as the keyboard just lit up for me as its getting dark. Need some more tweaking and then to get me an HDtv card and try it out as a dvr.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 292013, member: 24160"] This is my first post here, and only adding on here due to the similarity in cwa107 and my experiences. Started with a TI 99 if anyone remembers when TI was in the computer business. Am a game player from way back, and by the time of 95 had already started building my own systems. Could handle upgrading, but couldn't handle buying a new system every 9 months or so to play that new game I had my eyes on back then. Not in the IT field, but did spend a couple of years doing tech support for Dell and MS (98SE days). "To me, Vista is the last straw. Draconian DRM schemes, a gussied-up GUI" That's what has really got me also. Have spent time over the last 3 months playing with multiple flavors of Linux for the umpteenth time since around '97. It's almost there, and really enjoy all the tweaking available, but with not enough time available to start searching the web and reading for hours to accomplish some tasks and no interest in going back to the Dos days, no thanks. The kid got him an iMac, so I took the plunge with the MacBook Pro yesterday. That and the fact that to get the same processor and video card on a PC notebook, the price couldn't be touched (Dell for example would have been an extra $700 minimum). So far so good except for 1) taking me a whole day to figure out there "ARE" right click menus available on this thing (after I plugged in a spare mouse) and 2) just now while writing this took a chance and discovered how to use the delete key in both directions. Overall, after one day of tweaking, installing a few needed apps (only took me an hour to figure that one out), am pretty impressed with looks, feel and build quality. Nice features as the keyboard just lit up for me as its getting dark. Need some more tweaking and then to get me an HDtv card and try it out as a dvr. [/QUOTE]
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