I have two questions - I'm sure they've been asked before but what I've found doesn't exactly answer either question
My computer history: Built a Compukit UK101 in 1982 (I was 41 then so you can work it out...) progressed through Amstrad, Apricot, Win 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 7... and about 2 years ago bought a 13" Macbook Pro which I struggled to get to grips with so run Windows 7 in bootcamp most of the time... but I have become severely disenchanted with the W7 platform over the last few months, esepcially after a clean reinstall, seemingly a million updates and 4 blue screen crashes. Played with the Macbook for a while and began to understand it more.
SO, I have almost bought an iMac 27" (hovered over the 'buy now' button several times!)... There are some Windows programmes that I HAVE to use because there's nothing similar for the MAC as far as I can discover, so bootcamp/fusion 3.1 (which I have on the Macbook Pro) looks to be a good option.
OK, here's my two questions:
1. Is there anybody in the forum who can tell me how long it took to get used to the MAC OS and if they still feel that switiching was a good thing? (Especially in my 70 years age group!)
2. My W7 installation is on a 1TB partioned hard drive - is there anyway I could use that without going through the whole install/upgrade process again?
I do need to use some Windows programmes on a daily basis, unfortunately.
Any advice, encouragement, discouragement or other comments will be most welcome!
Terence
My computer history: Built a Compukit UK101 in 1982 (I was 41 then so you can work it out...) progressed through Amstrad, Apricot, Win 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 7... and about 2 years ago bought a 13" Macbook Pro which I struggled to get to grips with so run Windows 7 in bootcamp most of the time... but I have become severely disenchanted with the W7 platform over the last few months, esepcially after a clean reinstall, seemingly a million updates and 4 blue screen crashes. Played with the Macbook for a while and began to understand it more.
SO, I have almost bought an iMac 27" (hovered over the 'buy now' button several times!)... There are some Windows programmes that I HAVE to use because there's nothing similar for the MAC as far as I can discover, so bootcamp/fusion 3.1 (which I have on the Macbook Pro) looks to be a good option.
OK, here's my two questions:
1. Is there anybody in the forum who can tell me how long it took to get used to the MAC OS and if they still feel that switiching was a good thing? (Especially in my 70 years age group!)
2. My W7 installation is on a 1TB partioned hard drive - is there anyway I could use that without going through the whole install/upgrade process again?
I do need to use some Windows programmes on a daily basis, unfortunately.
Any advice, encouragement, discouragement or other comments will be most welcome!
Terence