Mac versus PC - PC user for 25 years makes the switch
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Meet “Tim”, a PC user for 25 years, who recently switched from Windows to Apple’s OS X with the purchase of a MacBook Pro 15″ with 2GB of RAM.
Tim was attracted to the new iLife features on the Mac, which he feels makes all the personal stuff a breeze, such as working with digital photos and uploading professional quality slideshows to a website. He definitely sees his MacBook as much more of an on-the-go machine, as it’s much slimmer and robust going from hot spot to hot spot or quickly waking up with hot spot discovery. And he finds nice little things like the lighted keyboard can easily become a valuable feature. More positive praise is available in the podcast.
One area of disillusionment was that he was expecting to be able to use the Mac out of the box to build business oriented websites with various backend scripting requirements, and felt that the free tools that came with the Mac weren’t sufficient. This of course was easily corrected with the purchase of the Mac version of Adobe DreamWeaver. This does highlight, at least in this example, that some may be under the false impression that the Mac “just works” means that additional software isn’t necessary.
Tim also had some basic hardware issues with his MacBook Pro that comes with the migration from PC to Mac. This manifested itself in areas such as improperly resetting the Mac by removing the battery. Unfortunately this, plus not practicing good back-up habits learned on the PC, led to a trip to the Genius Bar at the Apple Store.
All things considered, Tim would definitely buy the MacBook Pro again and could kick himself for not switching to the Mac earlier.
More comparisons to the Mac and PC from Tim’s perspective are available in this Inside Digital Media Podcast, including thoughts on which is better for personal use and which is better for business.
More Mac versus PC comparisons and notes from switchers at:
MacVsPc.info
Epinions.com
System Shootouts
Thomas Hawk
Tags: Windows, Apple, OS X, MacBook, iLife, Mac, Adobe, DreamWeaver, Inside Digital Media, Mac versus PC
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December 4th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
While Tim is qualified on paper, his review makes him sound like a newbie to computers in general more than to the Mac. Macs have no problem backing up things like your iPhoto collection, or accessing Windows data on a Windows Fat 32 Drive or through network shares.
His ’shock’ that the computer isn’t capable of commercial webdesign out of the box is also laughable. When has a Mac ever been marketed as such?
The multitasking is also very comprable to Windows performance. I just made the switch after 20 years of work in Microsoft OSes- Windows is still great for gaming and as workhorse file servers. My Mac is a more efficent production machine. Your process for doing work is as smooth as one could imagine. The interface is designed to allow applications and the file system to work together as a unified tool. The exact kind of media production and multitasking that Tim wants are what OSX is best at.
December 4th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Lockup, Backup and Business…
Apple’s iLife apps can use serious RAM, especially if you like to keep a ton of files/apps open so 2gig RAM. Minimum. Re backups? I use Fat32 HDs on Mac/PC, no prob. And for Business? He should know that Dreamweaver works on the Mac too. MS Office works on Mac, along with many other apps. And when all else fails - Parallels to run Windows apps at native speed.
And finally, reports are that the new MBPro runs much cooler than its predecessor. Several software and hardware fixes work for the 1.0 MBP (including removing some of the thermal compound from inside the machine).
But, sounds like Tim’s getting the hang of it. If he boosts the RAM, backsup regularly and gets a copy of Parallels (and Boot Camp) he’ll be able to do it all on one machine.
December 5th, 2006 at 7:40 am
I, too, made the switch but haven’t had nearly the same experience.
http://www.douglaskarr.com/2006/10/29/ielegance-the-first-week-of-my-migration-to-a-macbook-pro/
Within a week I was comfortable. Within a month I was fully migrated. To be honest, most of my issues were ‘untraining’ myself in the methods that Microsoft used and simply try to do what was natural. OSX’s usability is a step ahead, so if you ‘try’ something, it usually just works.
After a while, you start to learn shortcuts that take ‘easy’ to ‘fast’ and your productivity increases significantly.
I still have 4 PCs in my home running XP, but I try to do it all on my Mac.
Doug
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