Any lifetime PC people switch to a mac?

[halfadder]

Totally switch? No. I'm the sort of person who has both a PS2 and an XBOX. I also have a Ford pickup and a Saab.

I used some nice Macs in college (350 MHz PPC 604e, back in the day of the PentiumPro) and before that I used some really horrible nasty old Macs with way too little RAM in highschool. But I've always been a PC user at home and at work. I bought my first Mac, a PowerBook, out of curiosity last year and I have been extremely happy with it. Mac OS X is.... different, but I like it. As time goes on I do more and more with the PowerBook. These days I do almost all of my photos, home videos, and presentations on my PowerBook. I still use my PCs a lot and I'm looking forward to building a new PC soon. But I did also just order a Mac Mini.

I like Macs. I like PCs. Mac OS X is neat, so is Win XP.

If you can afford only one comptuer, I say get a PC. But if you already have a PC and are looking for another computer, I would suggest checking out what Apple has to offer.

 

[OoTLink]

I've had a mac for 3 years now, 'switched' (more like added it to the platter), because of OS X -- having a *n?x box as my main machine is awesome, and not having to restart into another OS or run WINE to have commercial apps is just great.

Granted you can't run AutoCAD, 3DSMax, or a few games on a mac, there are alternatives to just about everything else, even Autocad. I've not had a problem with it dealing with any of the PCs on my network (it's my toy, work machine, server, and router, every purpose it does great in), and shoot, it even reads NTFS and reads/writes fat32 drives, so no complaints

As for safari, there's a dozen mac alternatives to that browser, I myself use a (somewhat older) alternative: Camino, but an optimized build for my g4, which is easily as fast (if not faster) than WinIE. You can get that http://homepage.mac.com/krmathis/]here[/url], of course there's firefox as well. You can also get G5 and more updated G4 builds here:

http://mbencher.ilnm.com/camino/

 

[RichieZ]

its great except that safari can get god awful slow compared to IE sometimes. I love how everything just works, like when I wanted to setup an external monitor, plug it in and bam its done (well after i applied the screen span hack, apple is retarded in that sense). Everything is so customizeable, you can set the dock and the finder bar on either monitor by just dragging it. DVD's and such don't need to be played only on the primary montior. Lots of little touches that I find nice.

 

[halfadder]

Originally posted by: RichieZ
its great except that safari can get god awful slow compared to IE sometimes.

Browsing in Linux is similar. Mozilla is usually just as fast as IE until you hit a certain site and it slows to a crawl. Switching to Konq sometimes works around the problem.

The same can be said for working on a Mac. Most of the time, Safari works great. Every now and then you run across a site that just doesn't play well with Safari. That's when I use Firefox or Camino, they usually do the trick.

Safari is based on KHTML from the KDE Konqueror project.
Mozilla, Netscape, Firefox, and Camino are based on Gekko from the Mozilla project.

Safari is Apple's browser and is usually pretty fast. It comes with Mac OS X.
Camino is Gekko with a native Mac Cocoa GUI. When you use an optimized build of Camino for your CPU, it's usually as fast as greasted lightning.
Mozilla and Firefox work great, especially if you use an optimized build.
The offiicial Mac version of Netscape 7.2 is OK. It's nothing special and it's the slowest of the bunch.

There's also the old and dead IE 5.2 for Mac. It comes with Mac OS X. It's buggy, slow, and awful. If you can use it for more than 10 minutes without crashing the app, you're lucky.

 

[mrgoblin]

Try linux. Its free and if you dont like iu just reformat and u save 1300

 

[SunSamurai]

Originally posted by: Accord99

Originally posted by: Panorama
well amazingly most of the complex large animations using high-end 3d softwares like maya and 3dmax make use of Macs because they rated higher in handling Graphical Work Load better than PC, though i have not exprienced. I would put Mac for a person who is new to computers who uses email service, word processing, music, bit of games and other basic stuff.

No they don't. 3D Studio Max doesn't even run on the Macintosh platform.

3D Studio Max isnt high end.

 

[hopejr]

Originally posted by: mrgoblin
Try linux. Its free and if you dont like iu just reformat and u save 1300

Mate, that's not the point of this thread. Anyway, the Mac mini doesn't cost that much.

 

[volrath]

I was a mac user all my life. Then I built a PC so I could play counterstrike. I used both side by side for maybe 3 years, and found that even a slow PC felt more natural and faster for everyday tasks, and it actually supports things that need to get done. Sold my mac(s). Now I have lots of PCs.

The dual 2.5Ghz G5 or whatever high end mac I tried felt exactly the same speed as my 400Mhz G4: slow.

 

[Dennis Travis]

volrath, I don't know what Dual G5 you tried but I am SURE it was not the same Dual G5's that I have tried. I don't have to try them side by side either, The Dual G5 blows apart any G4 Mac especially 500Mhz like I have leave alone that 400 G4 you had. I would have not said a thing but there is so much difference even in opening applications that I had to speak up.

 

[EndGame]

Used Macs for years because of my job. That's all we had for many years then around '01 they brought in a few PC's and like always, because they were the "newest" systems, everyone wanted one. By the end of '03/early '04 we've gone from totally Mac to 90% PC. Everyone seems to like them much better and we actually expierienced more problems with crashing with the Macs than we do now. I guess give big props to the IT dept. because we don't have virus or spyware problems at least none that are talked about or memoed and new hires don't bitch because they don't understand the OS the way they used to.

Because of work we always had Macs around the house too but got a PC when the first Northwoods came out and since have built 3 more because the kids/wife all argued over whom was going to use the PC.

I guess you could say I've switched, but in the other direction at work and at home and in both situations everyone seems very happy about it.

 

[Jigglelicious]

Bought an old G3 iMac back in January of last year off eBay to play around with the OS, since I love tinkering with alternative computer systems (I actually ran AmigaOS on my PC for about a month, and then BeOS for another month after that)
I ended up loving the little ah heck, but it for actual daily use it was a tad too slow for my tastes. So I ended up buying a refurb 800mhz eMac off of Apples site, and overclocking it to 1.4GHz, installing a 8x superdrive, 1gb RAM and a larger HDD, and now i'm perfectly happy with it. It now sits comfortably next to my PC (which I only use for gaming now).

I doubt I can ever fully switch over and drop my PC, since I am a heavy gamer. But I won't be giving up my Macs anytime soon, thats for sure.