Switchers! - Did you make it ?

[Carrie]

I?m trying to get my hands on a Mac mini, through a dealer i?ve done some work for. If that works out, I?ll have one soon, if it doesn?t, it?s going to be a while since my economy is a disaster area.

[MaGGoT]

I doubt I'll get a mac.. just because I'm used to pc's and just got this one. Also because I don't want to have to get used to the new hardware, software, etc. I'd like to have one to play around with.. but for nothing more.

[zerohour]

I am an awkward one.

I had a G3 Mac 300Mhz but it died. Could not afford a new one so I had to go back to my PC.

But I had used OS X before Pear PC was announced. So it did not make me switch as such but it did mean I could use a lot of my old data files

However I would buy one again as OS X is just much better than Windoze

[dave_starsky]

I don't think I really fit any of those options. I like OS X and I like Macs, but I don't think I can justify buying one, there is nothing I would use it for that I can't already do with Linux/Windows on my current computer.

[zchristian]

I'm introsted in getting an Mac with PearPc is mostly going to be one telling me weather I realy want a Mac or not. At the moment I must say the Mac is realy easy to use with the help of Finder.

[Dr Frankenstein]

Actually I run Mac OS 7 (You can download it freely straight from Apple) on Basilisk II (Still trying to run X on PearPC) and I would say it's really better than Windows, [b:ab98c832c1]but[/b:ab98c832c1] I can't stop using a PC, so when I'll have some money, I'll buy a real Mac.

[ted.nli]

I told myself for more than 15 years that id never spend my money on any apple computer.

the last week i bough an old g3-400 blue and white tower.
Im impressed with the OS on many levels. Primarily this was apple ability to put a stable, pretty interface over the top of unix. I also got a copy of tiger to go along with it.

I have used many different comptuers over the years including the original mac 128 and mac+ ,administered quadras of all sorts, to amigas, to pcs of all sorts going back to the 8086, a NeXt slab which lies dormant in my office, to irix (sgi), sunos/solaris (sun), linux, free/open bsd, SVR4.2, etc..

Basically i bought it for something to play with though. It does not do anything that i cannot do with another machine. its a fun toy..

pearpc was a factor, but also friends and coworkers.

I do have to say that I am not impressed with the amount of testing done onb the hardware for macs.. As a long time mac advocate told me, "you spend alot of time hating apple being a mac owner."
Macs are picky about ram, they exhibit nasty behaviour if the clock battery goes, thier support for some hardware is sketchy. Scsi controllers that ship with some macs which are identical to thier pc cousins, seem to have a problem with certain disk sizes, booting, etc..

Ive been a pc tech for years. Ive seen tons of problems with pc's. Most of which was due to bad installation or faulty third party hardware.

Windows isnt the prettiest thing around.. but it works.. and if you treat it well it will treat you well in return..
There are lots of bugs in windows.. many security holes. I wouldnt trust microsoft to paint my garage door.. But much of this is a product of familiarity. As the rise in popularity of the new macs increases.. so will the discoveries of new vulnerabilities. It is the way of the world.

Each computer has a purpose.. and each does certain things well.
I wouldnt buy a mac to play games and i wouldnt run a server on a windows machine. I wouldnt even run it on a mac... id used the tried and true unix system which lacks many of the commercial user level enhancements.

Ill stop my rant now. Everyone should try out as many computers as they can.. So at least they can know what they are talking about.

[ted.nli]

oh i just want to say one more thing.. I cant handle 1 button mice!!!!!!

that thing has got to go!!!

[bot47]

Buy a two button mouse for your Mac

[sandmanfvr]

I just got Mac OS 10.3.5 running last night on PearPC. I am very impressed. It just a smooth OS. Yeah I wasn't doing to much and haven't been on the net yet, but I can already see I like OS X. I am 27 and a gamer that is getting tired of Windows. Sure I will have to have a Windows machine to play some games, but I go for long periods of time without playing anything. I guess I am just more picky as I have gotten older. If I don't play a game here and there I am just messing with audio, video, web design, some programming (very little), cd/dvd burning etc. I really don't need a PC to do all of that.

Now it comes down to this: Do I continue to use PearPC or get a nice (not super top of the line) Mac? Don't know yet but I will be use OS X and/or a real Mac soon. OS X will now be apart of my daily computing tools.