I love my mac. i do all my day-to-day tasks on it and just use the window box to test sites on IE and as a jukebox (I refuse to use Itunes. Winamp all the way)
though admittedly i've been mistaken for a homo more than once
Give it a month, you'll never go back to a pc. I GAVE AWAY my 2 yr old laptop last night because I dislike Windows so much, I am buying a Macbook Pro this week.
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Wow, how old are you? It took me all of 10 minutes to figure things out coming from using a PC all my life. Not too good with computers apparently. This might help
I just got my MacBook Pro about a month ago. It took a little adjusting to, but it's fucking powerful. Now I can edit and render HD files on my laptop QUICKLY, where before I was tied to a PC desktop that took hours and hours (if not a day) to do the same task.
Also, run Windows on Bootcamp. You'll find that your mac will run Windows better than a PC.
There are a few things I don't like. 1) I prefer the FTP software on a PC, as well as Email and chat clients. Other than that, Mac is superior.
BTW... I actually caught myself a week ago. Our power was out so I went to Starbucks to get wi-fi. There I was, drinking Starbucks, with a Mac, black chunky glasses... for a moment, I WAS THAT DUDE!!!! I almost fainted. Gathered myself and left. Close call. After that, the only place you can go is the glory hole.
i got my first mac (imac) a few months back and while there was a couple day learning curve i've actually been won over to OSX and its hardware.. it just makes a lot more sense. since then i've gotten 4 more mac products (air,iphone3g+3gS,nano) and they all just fit into place pretty effortlessly.
got mobileMe working the other week (xmas present from Moses @ RehabDollars) and it tied everything together to the second degree...
Wow, how old are you? It took me all of 10 minutes to figure things out coming from using a PC all my life. Not too good with computers apparently. This might help
Last year my main laptop started breaking down so I replaced it with a macbook pro and shelved it.
I was totally blown away by all the eye candy and how much fun it was to do everything.
Unfortunately my workflow is fairly chaotic and I generally have about 2 dozen irons in the fire at a time.
I could never get my head around quickly navigating the file heirarchy in mac's "finder" and so generally by the time I found the file I wanted I forgot why, or found another one that I needed to work on first and neglected the other.
Immediately I started losing money. I continued losing money and eventually lost my business.
Yesterday I installed windows 7 with bootcamp on my macbook pro and instantly I feel about 200% more productive. Let's see how this year goes.
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Last year my main laptop started breaking down so I replaced it with a macbook pro and shelved it.
I was totally blown away by all the eye candy and how much fun it was to do everything.
Unfortunately my workflow is fairly chaotic and I generally have about 2 dozen irons in the fire at a time.
I could never get my head around quickly navigating the file heirarchy in mac's "finder" and so generally by the time I found the file I wanted I forgot why, or found another one that I needed to work on first and neglected the other.
Immediately I started losing money. I continued losing money and eventually lost my business.
Yesterday I installed windows 7 with bootcamp on my macbook pro and instantly I feel about 200% more productive. Let's see how this year goes.
You are, in all seriousness, blaming the Mac on the loss of your business? Nigga please.
First thing I install on new Mac. It is a launcher. Rather than go to Finder, go to apps and clicking on safari, you simply type SAF and it opens. If you want to write a new email to a certain person, you type first few letters of their name and boom. A song? A document? A bookmark? All the same.
First thing I install on new Mac. It is a launcher. Rather than go to Finder, go to apps and clicking on safari, you simply type SAF and it opens. If you want to write a new email to a certain person, you type first few letters of their name and boom. A song? A document? A bookmark? All the same.
It will change your life.
Spotlight already does this. cmd+space, 'saf', return. Voila.
BTW... I actually caught myself a week ago. Our power was out so I went to Starbucks to get wi-fi. There I was, drinking Starbucks, with a Mac, black chunky glasses... for a moment, I WAS THAT DUDE!!!! I almost fainted. Gathered myself and left. Close call. After that, the only place you can go is the glory hole.
So how was the glory hole? Yeah I have also caught myself being that fucking mac guy at the coffee shop.
Personally, I had been switching between my 08 Mac Pro and my custom PC (i7 975) for the past few months now, and I can not help but go back to the Mac after a few weeks of PC work.
To me, it's a more efficient machine. A. It's quieter. B. It is powerful, a multi-tasking beat C. It integrates very well with the rest of my hardware (30 cinema screen, MBPs, iPhone, etc.) and D. it's just so fucking pretty.
It is clear that I can do the same work on the PC as I can on the Mac. The tools are available for either platform. I simply prefer the overall feel of the OS and the hardware. I am not a fanboi, I don't give a fuck about the hype, I have work to get done and pick the tool that aids me in doing it the most efficient way.
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