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06-05-2003, 01:50 AM

Hi all,

I am wondering if anyone here who switched from PC to Mac can give me some advise as to your experience? I just placed an order for a new iBook. And I have been a PC user until now. So anyone can give me some words as to what to look out for? What are the goods, and bads? Is it really as good as Apple says on the website?

Thanks a lot!

redman · 06-05-2003, 08:33 PM

I'm a geek and anti-MS to boot, so take my biased opinion for what it is.

Your experience will depend on what you used the PC for the most. If it's mainly communication, email, chat, etc, you're really not going to notice much of a difference past the eye candy and antialiased fonts.

If you're going to use it in more of a business capacity, you have Word available as well as quicken. Again, you really shouldn't notice much, except that Word/Office are a bit (lot) nicer on the mac.

If you're a tinkerer and like to poke under the hood a lot, you're going to love it. If you're going to try your hand at Java or other geekish things like programming, signing up for ADC and getting the compiler etc, is well worth the cost ($0) and something you're not going to get for free on windows.

If you've ever had a virus come along and wipe out your harddrive, you're going to love it until more virii are targetted to the mac, and even then, it's Unix so there is some cushioning, it'll only be your files, not the entire machine. You can even create seperate accounts easily and do risky things under one and less risky things under a different one.

Worse comes to worse and you don't like the eye candy, you can probably get Linux running on it.

juanvaldes · 06-05-2003, 08:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by redman
Worse comes to worse and you don't like the eye candy, you can probably get Linux running on it.

or just disable it.

If your a hardcore gamer don't fdisk C: yet....

tell us what you use/need also check the Mac OS X software thread (note add new apps to thread...)

rubicon · 06-10-2003, 07:59 AM

I have PCs and a Mac G4. I would replace Windows with OSX if I had all of the same software for Mac. Unfortunately, it seems crazy to buy $1000s of Mac software when I already have it for Windows (and most of it properly licensed).

I did buy Office X for OSX and it's nice. Fully compatible with Office on Windows. Entourage is sweet and you can sync it with your Palm.

Since OSX runs on UNIX you should be able to do quite a lot with it - surpassing Windows for sure.

I think that most Windows users can adapt to OSX very quickly - it's more like Windows than OS9.

Enjoy!

06-05-2003, 01:50 AM	#1 (permalink)
CY@Workshop Guest	Switching? Hi all, I am wondering if anyone here who switched from PC to Mac can give me some advise as to your experience? I just placed an order for a new iBook. And I have been a PC user until now. So anyone can give me some words as to what to look out for? What are the goods, and bads? Is it really as good as Apple says on the website? Thanks a lot!

06-10-2003, 07:59 AM	#4 (permalink)
rubicon Stop. Think. Question. Location: Redondo Beach, CA	I have PCs and a Mac G4. I would replace Windows with OSX if I had all of the same software for Mac. Unfortunately, it seems crazy to buy $1000s of Mac software when I already have it for Windows (and most of it properly licensed). I did buy Office X for OSX and it's nice. Fully compatible with Office on Windows. Entourage is sweet and you can sync it with your Palm. Since OSX runs on UNIX you should be able to do quite a lot with it - surpassing Windows for sure. I think that most Windows users can adapt to OSX very quickly - it's more like Windows than OS9. Enjoy! __________________ How you do anything is how you do everything.

06-05-2003, 08:33 PM	#2 (permalink)
redman Upright	I'm a geek and anti-MS to boot, so take my biased opinion for what it is. Your experience will depend on what you used the PC for the most. If it's mainly communication, email, chat, etc, you're really not going to notice much of a difference past the eye candy and antialiased fonts. If you're going to use it in more of a business capacity, you have Word available as well as quicken. Again, you really shouldn't notice much, except that Word/Office are a bit (lot) nicer on the mac. If you're a tinkerer and like to poke under the hood a lot, you're going to love it. If you're going to try your hand at Java or other geekish things like programming, signing up for ADC and getting the compiler etc, is well worth the cost ($0) and something you're not going to get for free on windows. If you've ever had a virus come along and wipe out your harddrive, you're going to love it until more virii are targetted to the mac, and even then, it's Unix so there is some cushioning, it'll only be your files, not the entire machine. You can even create seperate accounts easily and do risky things under one and less risky things under a different one. Worse comes to worse and you don't like the eye candy, you can probably get Linux running on it.