I love my Mac!

[Heller]

so i recently purchased a refurbish mac book pro, paid $1000 was my first apple computer, went along nicely with the iphone 3gs.


I've had it a month, and after adjusting to osx, its so much easier/quicker to do just about anything, Firefox is blazing fast and overall everything i through at it [ hd movies , etc] its does an awesome job of it and I simply cannot see myself ever using a pc again, apple has officially "gotten me"

 

[Fear No Evil]

You do realize Firefox works with Windows too right? I'm always intrigued by posts like these. What is so much quicker/easier to do? I think a lot of it is people wanting to justify their decision. How much 'faster' can browsing be? Or playing music.. or ?? What was so difficult about doing those things in Windows.

 

[TheWart]

You do realize Firefox works with Windows too right? I'm always intrigued by posts like these. What is so much quicker/easier to do? I think a lot of it is people wanting to justify their decision. How much 'faster' can browsing be? Or playing music.. or ?? What was so difficult about doing those things in Windows.

While you are right on a certain level, I think all the little variations between various OS' do make some better than others. I mean it is like saying how can car model XXX be any better than XXX? They both get you to your destination at the same time...

 

[Fear No Evil]

Of course nothing wrong with liking Mac's.. good machines.. but I think people go a bit overboard sometimes.

 

[aphex]

You do realize Firefox works with Windows too right? I'm always intrigued by posts like these. What is so much quicker/easier to do? I think a lot of it is people wanting to justify their decision. How much 'faster' can browsing be? Or playing music.. or ?? What was so difficult about doing those things in Windows.

I think many of us mac users just find OSX more user intuitive. Its not justifying a decision, its a personal preference. I have both in my house but when it comes time to just sit down, relax, and use a computer, I go to OSX 95% of the time.

 

[Fear No Evil]

I think many of us mac users just find OSX more user intuitive. Its not justifying a decision, its a personal preference. I have both in my house but when it comes time to just sit down, relax, and use a computer, I go to OSX 95% of the time.

Inuitive is fine, until you learn how to do it, then intuition doesn't really matter anymore does it? How often do you do something 'new' with your computer that something being intuitive really matters?

 

[TheStu]

Inuitive is fine, until you learn how to do it, then intuition doesn't really matter anymore does it? How often do you do something 'new' with your computer that something being intuitive really matters?

Much like Aphex said, I will 99% of time use OS X over Windows for browsing the web and really doing just about everything. Hell, I even like renaming files in OS X better than in Windows (select, enter, type the name faster and easier than Windows unless you know of a key command for Rename).

And the 'intuitive-ness'/ease of use extends past just being introduced to the OS. Up until recently I was still finding things that, pardon the advert, just worked. I sum it up like this, 99% of the time in OS X, if I try to do something, it works exactly like how I would think that it would (drag an image from the browser to the photo editor, even if the photo editor isn't open for example). 99% of the time in Windows, it doesn't work.

Yes, it is a preference, but frankly, when you are using a system all day, every day shouldn't you not hate it? Shouldn't you even... dare I say... enjoy it? Shouldn't it get out of your way and let you do your day to day stuff in the least intrusive and convoluted way possible? I love coming home to my Windows 7 desktop after being at work with XP for 8.5 hours. But I loved even more coming home to OS X (before I broke my Hack ), because there I enjoyed using my computer.

 

[sourceninja]

I get very pissed off in non-osx operating systems. Usually because of keyboard shortcuts. I'll do "command-`" and nothing happens or command-f, or command-t or command-c, etc.

My hands have been re-programmed and it really sucks. To make it worse, the position of the command key is where the windows key is. Now check this out. What does command-L do inside safari and what does windows key-L do on windows?

Annoyed? I am when that happens.

 

[Nothinman]

Much like Aphex said, I will 99% of time use OS X over Windows for browsing the web and really doing just about everything. Hell, I even like renaming files in OS X better than in Windows (select, enter, type the name faster and easier than Windows unless you know of a key command for Rename).

F2. Although in Windows if you do a double-click with a longer delay in between it'll do a rename as well. Enter doesn't do rename because enter means open.

And the 'intuitive-ness'/ease of use extends past just being introduced to the OS. Up until recently I was still finding things that, pardon the advert, just worked. I sum it up like this, 99% of the time in OS X, if I try to do something, it works exactly like how I would think that it would (drag an image from the browser to the photo editor, even if the photo editor isn't open for example). 99% of the time in Windows, it doesn't work.

Funny enough in Win7 draggin from IE into Paint.Net or MS Paint doesn't work but from FF it does. I would've never even thought to try that until now though because I wouldn't expect that to work. I usually do a copy/paste because I expect that to work.

Yes, it is a preference, but frankly, when you are using a system all day, every day shouldn't you not hate it? Shouldn't you even... dare I say... enjoy it? Shouldn't it get out of your way and let you do your day to day stuff in the least intrusive and convoluted way possible? I love coming home to my Windows 7 desktop after being at work with XP for 8.5 hours. But I loved even more coming home to OS X (before I broke my Hack ), because there I enjoyed using my computer.

In an ideal world you would enjoy it, but not everyone gets along with computers like we do and everyone has different expectations.

 

[u3laptoper]

That is incorrect.

For simple everyday tasks, Windows machines outshine Macs by a far margin. It's simply faster, not considering how a dinosaur of an OS still survives today.

What is that you are experiencing (Macs) is a well designed "User Interface", Mac UI causes you less eye strain/fatigue. However, Windows 7 have become very competitive in its interface usability.

 

[KeypoX]

so i recently purchased a refurbish mac book pro, paid $1000 was my first apple computer, went along nicely with the iphone 3gs.


I've had it a month, and after adjusting to osx, its so much easier/quicker to do just about anything, Firefox is blazing fast and overall everything i through at it [ hd movies , etc] its does an awesome job of it and I simply cannot see myself ever using a pc again, apple has officially "gotten me"

I think most people would agree that FF is slower on a mac... though i dont notice any difference. Except in cpu usage though not speed. Well flash speed sometimes.

Much like Aphex said, I will 99% of time use OS X over Windows for browsing the web and really doing just about everything. Hell, I even like renaming files in OS X better than in Windows (select, enter, type the name faster and easier than Windows unless you know of a key command for Rename).

Enter opens files on my mac, thank god. But enter on keypad renames. Windows also has a shortcut to rename. F2 I dont see the difference.

 

[msi1337]

I have both and I don't prefer either one overall. I like both. Mac I prefer for doing video editing, sound editing, picture editing. pc I prefer for gaming, surfing, and hardware testing (which I do a lot)

 

[KeypoX]

I have both and I don't prefer either one overall. I like both. Mac I prefer for doing video editing, sound editing, picture editing. pc I prefer for gaming, surfing, and hardware testing (which I do a lot)

I like mac for internet, email, and chat. Still learning iphoto (not very intuitive). Wish i could also work on it but office is pretty bad and can't seem to find a good paint alternative, gimp is way to much for my needs. Though gimp should be sufficient just havnt takin the time ot learn it yet.

Just got done gaming gonna restart now lol

 

[alfa147x]

OS X for everything but gaming

from video to photo editing

 

[DougoMan]

I've been using OSX almost exclusively for over a year and I still feel like when I go into Windows everything happens way faster. OSX just has this laggy feel to it for some reason. I still like it better because of file management, lack of a central registry, better programs, etc, but everything I do feels way more deliberate.

 

[secretanchitman]

OS X for everything but gaming

from video to photo editing

basically this. i used to have a boot camp partition for xp, but i took that off because i was always turning to my windows desktop which is 30000x faster/more powerful (core 2 quad, gtx 260, etc).

 

[dwell]

I get very pissed off in non-osx operating systems. Usually because of keyboard shortcuts. I'll do "command-`" and nothing happens or command-f, or command-t or command-c, etc.

Command-Q and Command-W are pretty addictive. Hard using other operating systems without those.

 

[TheStu]

Command-Q and Command-W are pretty addictive. Hard using other operating systems without those.

Word.

 

[lokiju]

Have you ever ran a 64bit version of Windows?

 

[Parasitic]

Have you ever ran a 64bit version of Windows?

Firefox doesn't have an official and optimized x64 build yet.

And 64-bit Windows doesn't necessarily mean it will perform better than its 32-bit counterpart, especially if more than half of your applications you run on Windows x64 is still 32-bit.

 

[speg]

Glad you are enjoying your Mac I know it's hard to explain what it is about OS X that makes us prefer it to an another OS, but they're is just something about it.

I switched from a hardcore PC DIYer almost 5 years ago and haven't looked back. (Still run a Windows 7 box for gaming, but that is going to be replaced with an iMac soon )

As for Firefox, have you tried Safari? I know a lot of people like to keep Firefox because it's what they know (or they have crazy addons they can't let go of) but I have been using Safari as my #1 browser for almost a year now. And of course there is Chrome to try now. Mmm, so many choices!

 

[MStele]

I always get frustrated with the either/or posts. Both sides are right. In truth its all about the user. Apple provides a more controlled environment with minimal fuss that works well, but at the expensive of software variety. Windows provides a less controlled and occasionally problematic environment but benefits from a host of software and hardware options. Both operating systems have been known to have good days and bad days, and in the long run its about the user. There is no one size fits all, and I wish both the Apple and Windows fans would at least agree to disagree, because depending on perspective and purpose, both sides are absolutely right.

As for myself, I love OSX. I just hate paying a premium on hardware to use the damn thing. I guess we all pay one way or another. (I'm not interested in Hackintoshs) I'm a dedicated Windows user, but oddly enough my favorite browser is Safari. I think its page accuracy is top notch. Now if only Apple would add decent plugin support it could compete with Firefox.

 

[rlyely]

yep i enjoy my mac netbook (hackintosh) i tried to the same with my computer but failed.

OS X was meant for the regular users and it was just that when i was using it. I have been using windows for 8 years now and would have switched because of the OS. They need to allow full access to the PC crowd!!!

 

[spikespiegal]

While this might risk my membership as a loyal member of the Mac_Basher_Society, the OP has a point and the responses aren't really on topic as to why. I'll give credit where credit is due.

I just spent the past two months doing my nth corporate hardware roll-out upgrading 20% of the client machines of a very profitable regional manufacturer. Half were laptops - all were PCs.

What's disturbing is they were already retiring Centrino based laptops as 'junk' because they were sluggish and not capable of productively running their latest software. A lot of this was self induced due to poor application version control, allowing end users to run around with admin rights causing run-away Spyware eruptions, and killing the machines with poorly tuned security apps like Symantec/Norton. Note: we were laterally upgrading to XP. No Vista here.

I'm convinced that the laptop might be the worst , and least productive invention of the 20th century and only exists to keep western currency flowing to Asia because they have to be replaced to often. Still, the issues I ran into with the compnay above are typical of every Enterprise environment I've been in over the past decade. Basically Windows runs smoothly on a state of the art laptop for about, oh, a month before the user is shopping for an upgrade and/or the IT dept is begging to waste another couple million dollars on another hardware cycle.

This is one of the few things I'll give OS-X (and Apple) credit for doing very, very well; A damn smooth running laptop that is productive, a joy to use, and doesn't have an upgrade cycle rated in 'months'.

 

[Heller]

Have you ever ran a 64bit version of Windows?

yes i had it with my q6600 gaming rig i built back when they dropped in price about a year ago. i also have it installed via parallels on my mac-book pro but i don't think i've used it once.