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<blockquote data-quote="James" data-source="post: 62390" data-attributes="member: 7582"><p>I think I can answer that for you. Actually i think your options will increase going with the Mac and OSX. There are thousands of Open Source programs out there for the Mac. Being basicly a unix machine it opens quite a few doors not available on the PC. Not to mention the tons of shareware out there for the Mac, and much of it is actually better than commerical and far cheaper priced. Most decent and well used software will have a Mac version.</p><p></p><p>What will you be giving up switching to the Mac?... simple, buggy software, a buggy OS, and hundreds of so called "Upgrades" which are mostly bug fixes that Mickey Soft wants to charge $100.00 and up for. Not to mention thousands of virus/trojan\worms and hackers intent on blasting all the holes they find in Mickey Soft, and they are many.</p><p></p><p>Having already been a user of FireFox and Thunderbird and Open Office, it felt like old home week when I switched over to Mac a couple of weeks ago, but Safari and Mail are both fine programs too it you choose to use them.</p><p></p><p>One problem you may find is in printers... If you have an old printer the Mac may not have the driver for it. If it is a parallel port plug in and your Mac, like the G5 doesn't have parallel port, that can be solved with a usb conversion plug in. If your printer is a usb printer, it will probably plug right in and work.</p><p></p><p>So, should you make the switch.... I would if I were you... as a matter of fact, I did....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James, post: 62390, member: 7582"] I think I can answer that for you. Actually i think your options will increase going with the Mac and OSX. There are thousands of Open Source programs out there for the Mac. Being basicly a unix machine it opens quite a few doors not available on the PC. Not to mention the tons of shareware out there for the Mac, and much of it is actually better than commerical and far cheaper priced. Most decent and well used software will have a Mac version. What will you be giving up switching to the Mac?... simple, buggy software, a buggy OS, and hundreds of so called "Upgrades" which are mostly bug fixes that Mickey Soft wants to charge $100.00 and up for. Not to mention thousands of virus/trojan\worms and hackers intent on blasting all the holes they find in Mickey Soft, and they are many. Having already been a user of FireFox and Thunderbird and Open Office, it felt like old home week when I switched over to Mac a couple of weeks ago, but Safari and Mail are both fine programs too it you choose to use them. One problem you may find is in printers... If you have an old printer the Mac may not have the driver for it. If it is a parallel port plug in and your Mac, like the G5 doesn't have parallel port, that can be solved with a usb conversion plug in. If your printer is a usb printer, it will probably plug right in and work. So, should you make the switch.... I would if I were you... as a matter of fact, I did.... [/QUOTE]
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