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What made you decide to switch?
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<blockquote data-quote="musicforme" data-source="post: 353720" data-attributes="member: 28745"><p>I don't own a Mac yet, but below is why I plan on buying one hopefully in the next four or five months.</p><p></p><p>1) I first owned a PC in 1991 after selling my Commodore Amiga 500. From that time until 2006 I actively built and configured my own PCs. I used to really enjoy taking apart a PC and upgrading the components. Whether it was figuring out DOS 4.1 all the way through Windows Server 2003, I've had my hands in a Microsoft operating system. I'm a MCSE+Internet on Windows NT 4.0 and a MCSE on Windows 2000 and work on a team that supports approx 300 Wintel servers in a web hosting environment for a large financial company.</p><p></p><p>2) My wife works in the administration of a local school district and once used the old school iMacs when she was a special education teacher seven years ago. She still helps teachers with their Macs, so her comfort level with a Mac is already high and not opposed to switching from a home Windows machine. She gets frustrated with having to figure out how to make things work on the home PC.</p><p></p><p>3) As I mentioned in #1, I work with Windows on a daily basis and see how one must stay up to date with security patches to stay protected (our compliance team demands and tracks it). The amount of time it takes to keep everything patched for the latest high impact patches has really worn me down. After working with Server 2003 and seeing how Microsoft "improved" its security from a desktop perspective, I don't even want to touch Vista. The reviews I've read of Vista only confirmed what I expected.</p><p></p><p>4) My home PC is just over four years old now and is in need of a hardware refresh. While it performed well over the past four years, my wife and I recently had our first child and I'm starting to dabble with video editing. It became painfully clear that my current PC is inadequate when it took 10 minutes to render a 1 minute uncompressed .avi clip to a WMV9 file. I'm not looking forward to the render its going to take on the compilation of clips I'm currently working on.</p><p></p><p>5) I need to gain experience with the Unix OS. We're slowly moving to a more Unix based web infrastructure at work and I've looked at the various flavors of Linux out of curiosity. By having a iMac as my main pc, I'll have more opportunities to experiment with the file permissions, processes, and Apache from a command line. It is my understanding that the Mac OS is derived from BSD Unix which should be close enough to Solaris and Red Hat we use at work.</p><p></p><p>6) I used to do Mac support back in 1992 on the old Quadras and Powerbooks. I only worked in that job for about 3 months before I was laid-off. My Mac experience back then was nill, but I quickly picked it up and was able to do desktop support for a joint venture between Nortel and Motorola.</p><p></p><p>All this being said, I'm really looking forward to owning a Mac in the not too distant future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="musicforme, post: 353720, member: 28745"] I don't own a Mac yet, but below is why I plan on buying one hopefully in the next four or five months. 1) I first owned a PC in 1991 after selling my Commodore Amiga 500. From that time until 2006 I actively built and configured my own PCs. I used to really enjoy taking apart a PC and upgrading the components. Whether it was figuring out DOS 4.1 all the way through Windows Server 2003, I've had my hands in a Microsoft operating system. I'm a MCSE+Internet on Windows NT 4.0 and a MCSE on Windows 2000 and work on a team that supports approx 300 Wintel servers in a web hosting environment for a large financial company. 2) My wife works in the administration of a local school district and once used the old school iMacs when she was a special education teacher seven years ago. She still helps teachers with their Macs, so her comfort level with a Mac is already high and not opposed to switching from a home Windows machine. She gets frustrated with having to figure out how to make things work on the home PC. 3) As I mentioned in #1, I work with Windows on a daily basis and see how one must stay up to date with security patches to stay protected (our compliance team demands and tracks it). The amount of time it takes to keep everything patched for the latest high impact patches has really worn me down. After working with Server 2003 and seeing how Microsoft "improved" its security from a desktop perspective, I don't even want to touch Vista. The reviews I've read of Vista only confirmed what I expected. 4) My home PC is just over four years old now and is in need of a hardware refresh. While it performed well over the past four years, my wife and I recently had our first child and I'm starting to dabble with video editing. It became painfully clear that my current PC is inadequate when it took 10 minutes to render a 1 minute uncompressed .avi clip to a WMV9 file. I'm not looking forward to the render its going to take on the compilation of clips I'm currently working on. 5) I need to gain experience with the Unix OS. We're slowly moving to a more Unix based web infrastructure at work and I've looked at the various flavors of Linux out of curiosity. By having a iMac as my main pc, I'll have more opportunities to experiment with the file permissions, processes, and Apache from a command line. It is my understanding that the Mac OS is derived from BSD Unix which should be close enough to Solaris and Red Hat we use at work. 6) I used to do Mac support back in 1992 on the old Quadras and Powerbooks. I only worked in that job for about 3 months before I was laid-off. My Mac experience back then was nill, but I quickly picked it up and was able to do desktop support for a joint venture between Nortel and Motorola. All this being said, I'm really looking forward to owning a Mac in the not too distant future. [/QUOTE]
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