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Pearls&StonesPearls&Stones Posts: 585
edited March 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
How many Mac people are on here? My wife and I are planning on buying a new computer, and are seriously considering a Mac. I am usually not enough of a computer guy to spend $1199, but I think the new Macs are awesome. Everyone I know that has a Mac swears by them, while 50% of the PC people I know say "Get a Mac, my (insert PC brand here) sucks"
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  • LeilaMoonTurtleLeilaMoonTurtle Posts: 1,418
    http://www.apple.com/imac/
    I have the older version of above
    love it
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  • PorchsitterPorchsitter Posts: 1,069
    Former PC user here.
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  • stylo17stylo17 Posts: 1,001
    Former PC user here as well. Never going back to Windows again. Highly recommend it to anyone.
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  • Boom The CatBoom The Cat Posts: 482
    I would never get a Mac. No offence to Mac users, if you aren't technically inclined, Mac is more than fine, and some of the software that Macintosh has kick the ass of alot of other software (GarageBand for example).

    Mac really isn't for me. Sure it's powerful, but how do you repair a Mac? You send it to Apple. I'd rather do it myself. I don't like Apple hardware at all, no iPods for me. I also hate the one mouse button.

    As for OSX.. Don't even get me started. Yeah, I still stand by what I said about what some of the software is like, but the OS itself I fucking hate.

    No Mac for me. Windows can be tolerable at times, but I'm a Unix guy.
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  • DeLukinDeLukin Posts: 2,757
    Love em. Do it, you won't regret it.
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  • PorchsitterPorchsitter Posts: 1,069
    Boom The Cat wrote:

    I also hate the one mouse button.

    I will say that I dislike the one-button mouse. It's taken a long time to get used to (almost a year and a half since I first bought my Mac), and I still find myself trying to right-click.
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  • DeLukinDeLukin Posts: 2,757
    Get a Mac mighty mouse. It's got one button but it can be set up to launch right-click context menus when you press the right side of it. Plus the scroll button blows away anything else out there.
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  • thossythossy Posts: 59
    Porchsitter wrote:
    I will say that I dislike the one-button mouse. It's taken a long time to get used to (almost a year and a half since I first bought my Mac), and I still find myself trying to right-click.

    You CAN right click with a Mac

    You just need to enable the setting in System Preferences.

    Under Keyboard and Mouse

    Under Mouse you just have to set the right half of the mouse to be secondary button.

    Under trackpad it's the check box for Tap trackpad using two fingers for secondary click.

    Hope this helps

    As to the original poster, I have my Mac since they started putting in Intel and other than a replacement battery havent had any issues.

    Once you go Mac you don't go back :)
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  • 1STmammal2wearPants1STmammal2wearPants Posts: 2,938
    Former PC user, and my purchase of a macbook pro this past January has made me a mac user for life. They're leaps and bounds ahead of pcs in user-friendliness and simplicity. plus the thing just hauls ass anyways.
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    i'm left handed so i can right click but using my pinky to hold down the click button while i click the mouse...
  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    I've used a PC most of my life (and have one at home), but a couple of months ago I got a MAC at work. After using it everyday for awhile now, I can say that it's about a draw. The MAC works faster as far as starting up and shutting down, etc, and it looks and feels cooler, but other than that it has just as many issues as the PC does in terms of usability and things that bug me.

    My next computer will be Linux and and I'm thinking of switching this one to that anyway.

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  • PorchsitterPorchsitter Posts: 1,069
    thossy wrote:
    You CAN right click with a Mac

    You just need to enable the setting in System Preferences.

    Under Keyboard and Mouse

    Under Mouse you just have to set the right half of the mouse to be secondary button.

    Under trackpad it's the check box for Tap trackpad using two fingers for secondary click.

    Hope this helps

    As to the original poster, I have my Mac since they started putting in Intel and other than a replacement battery havent had any issues.

    Once you go Mac you don't go back :)

    Just damn. I'm always learning new stuff about this machine. Thanks.
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  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,180
    thossy wrote:

    Once you go Mac you don't go back :)

    Amen, brother (or sister)!
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  • rockpantsrockpants Posts: 838
    With a Mac Mini, you can use a PC monitor and mouse. I don't like the one-button mouse, either, so I just don't use it. I find that non-Mac users make everything Mac out to be really inconvenient when there are simple ways to get around it, or not use it at all. Apple is aware of this, so Macs are very versatile and you don't have to know them inside and out to be able to take advantage of it. As for hardware upgrades, if you really want to get up close and personal with your Mac, you can. Many advanced users modify their Macs.
    Of course, some people go a little too far with their Mac love ... there's a hilarious photoshop "ad" out there on the intertubes that has the Apple logo and the slogan, "We could slap this logo on a turd, and you'd buy it." :p
  • lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    Pearls&Stones wrote:
    How many Mac people are on here? My wife and I are planning on buying a new computer, and are seriously considering a Mac. I am usually not enough of a computer guy to spend $1199, but I think the new Macs are awesome. Everyone I know that has a Mac swears by them, while 50% of the PC people I know say "Get a Mac, my (insert PC brand here) sucks"
    Do it, I have a 24" imac alum and a macbook, they are amazing, switched 4 years ago and would never go back.
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  • SnakeSnake Posts: 2,605
    thossy wrote:

    Once you go Mac you don't go back :)

    Ya know, they should use that as a marketing phrase or something lol
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  • nocode23nocode23 Posts: 411
    As soon as we get our tax return my wife and I are switching over to a Mac. I can't wait!
  • chiquimonkeychiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    i have a mac at work i've used for years and love it. i just got a macbook with my tax refund and i LOVE it! as for the mouse, i just bought a logitech wireless mouse and i'm all set :) macs are just so much more intuitive than PCs to me, the way they're set up
  • thossythossy Posts: 59
    imalive wrote:
    Amen, brother (or sister)!

    brotha,

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  • corduroidcorduroid Posts: 293
    Without any hesitation, get the Mac. Your life will improve for the better.
  • 1STmammal2wearPants1STmammal2wearPants Posts: 2,938
    corduroid wrote:
    Without any hesitation, get the Mac. Your life will improve for the better.

    Hell yes. I just get a warm, fuzzy feeling every time I open my macbook pro. I never got that feeling when I used a PC. Fuck windows and everything about it.
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  • GoingToLukinsGoingToLukins Posts: 232
    rockpants wrote:
    With a Mac Mini, you can use a PC monitor and mouse.


    I personally have a Mac Mini hooked up to a Sony Bravia HD TV. You could do so with any TV with a PC input option (as most new TVs do). This was I can listen to my iTunes from my surround sound entertainment system. I've also ripped all my DVDs into iTunes format; eliminating the need to keep them around. I also get to browse the internets from the comfort of my couch. This is by far a better route to go than the Apple TV.



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