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Yeah, mr. flea was converted to Macs because of Linux dual-boot. But, he's an engineer. And a total Mac snob, too. We have a G4 tower at home that dates back to 2002 (and has had memory upgrades), and it runs pretty good. It's gotten so it's not worth watching Youtube on it, since the videos are a little herky-jerky, but for everything else we do it's fine.
I used Macs starting with the Apple IIC in high school, and it was a bit of an adjustment when I started work in a Windows environment, but now I hardly notice the difference. Except when I want to cut and paste and use the wrong key+X combo, which is SO DEEPLY ANNOYING. (And it doesn't matter which machine I'm on, I always use the wrong one.)
Except when I want to cut and paste and use the wrong key+X combo, which is SO DEEPLY ANNOYING. (And it doesn't matter which machine I'm on, I always use the wrong one.)
this why I won't consider a mac at home. Going back and forth to a PC at work would drive me nuts. Yes, I would eventually get (mostly) used to it, but I would go bonkers and cranky in the interim
I have more trouble with the different PC keyboards I have to use. There's enough sensory difference between the Powerbook and the PCs that I can find the Windows key and the command key quite separately.
Except when I want to cut and paste and use the wrong key+X combo, which is SO DEEPLY ANNOYING. (And it doesn't matter which machine I'm on, I always use the wrong one.)
I thought this would be an issue for me, but it turned out not to be. I'm constantly switching between PCs and Macs, but my brain almost always uses the correct keys for cut, copy and paste.
So all of you self-professed "Mac snobs" who didn't even freaking use one until iPods came around, I laugh at you.
Ya, I'm a late adopter of the Mac. I started out on the TRS-80 model III, where you had to write code for each pixel "let x= blah and y=blah". Then in 9th grade, I was introduced to the 128k Mac, with a mouse! And MacPaint! And never looked back. I guess that all started around 1985 or so.
Except when I want to cut and paste and use the wrong key+X combo, which is SO DEEPLY ANNOYING.
Yes!
Obviously, if you never laughed at someone for buying a Mac, then my rant doesn't apply to you.
The worst person was actually one of my favorite people--my uncle David. When I got the PowrMac I asked him to come down to SF and help me with it because "it was my first computer" and he was a coder so I knew he'd know his way around it. He told me that I "still didn't have a computer" and pretty much told me that I'd seriously wasted my money (to be fair, it was extremely expensive compared to the pcs I could've bought for what I needed).
So now, he owns nothing but Macs and extols the virtues and puts down pcs every chance he gets. Windows 7 might surprise him a little.
I give him shit for giving me shit back them, but it's mostly in jest. Mostly.
ETA: I would love to own nothing but Macs! And I am happy that Apple has done so well. I didn't mean that to get lost in the shuffle. I am just envious of those of you who can use them for work and play, because I couldn't go back and forth easily between Mac and home and pc at work.
I use to use Macs exclusively. Then I started working in a non-publishing environment, on a PC. And then I inherited a PC laptop that was 9 years newer than my home Mac. Eventually I'll have to get my music off my Mac iTunes (so I'm glad I read through the how-to upthread), but for general browsing and typing (90% of what I do at home) the PC's actually working out pretty well for me. While similarly equipped PC and Mac laptops may have similar price points, it's hard to beat free.
I still love my iPhone, though.
Heck, I do it on the same machine. Almost all of my Macs are now dual boot, and I'm going to start transitioning them to Windows 7 soon.
I suppose I'm clearly a Johnny-come-lately because I think of Macs as laptops. So while I use OS X a lot, I still do things that require larger screens or precision cursor control on the PC, because it's a desktop box.
I have legacy application considerations--I own Office and Photoshop and Paintshop for Windows and I can't see myself buying equivalents for OS X (I've tried the freeware, and it ain't cutting it), so I'm not going to be an OS X only house any time soon. But I should probably make a plan to get onto Windows 7. I am not happy with Vista still.
