I have joined the dark side - Page 3

Moonliner · 10-31-2007, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex

Perfection was abandoned when they moved away from punch cards.

Did you ever drop your deck while rushing to get them in the queue?

Talk about a blue screen of death.....

Ghoulish Delight · 10-31-2007, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex

Once you are adept with a certain system, then all the others suck.

Except Netware. Netware sucks. Period.

Disneyphile · 10-31-2007, 10:37 AM

I used to live by, "Don't compute with fruit.", until I started editing.

Now, I have a Mac G4 laptop and the ultimate Apple geekware - an 8-core Pro.

And, I'll never allow Microsoft products to taint my fruit. I run that stuff on the PC. I love my PC for office stuff, but Mac owns the graphical world.

Welcome to the dark side - I'm sure you're going to enjoy it.

Cadaverous Pallor · 10-31-2007, 11:57 AM

Is the current Mac OS super searchable like Vista is? As slow as our laptop is (and it is. slow. very. slow.) I'm already getting used to the neat capabilities.

Kevy Baby · 10-31-2007, 12:36 PM

I have been a lifelong Mac user starting with my SE Pro back in 89. I have been forced onto a PC at work (which I spend a lot of time on) and will say that there are advantages and disadvantages to each platform. For what I do, I would not want a Mac at work. And I will never have a PC at home. I am not interested in PC gaming.

One of the areas where a PC kills the Mac is in file management abilities in dialog boxes. At work, I am CONSTANTLY moving, copying, renaming, etc. files in dialog boxes. Also, I am constantly moving between open documents in the same program - something I can do on the keyboard on a PC (Alt-Tab) but I have not figured out to do this on a Mac (you can use the keyboard to move between PROGRAMS, but not files).

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Originally Posted by Alex

I'm curious what buggy you're having with Vista. I've been running it for quite a while now and haven't run into a single one and at one point had the machine running for 48 days before a software install required a reboot.

I have been using Vista for a few months now and do not like it. It is, in my experience, less stable than XP (and I keep it up-to-date). While I do not do anything fancy on my 'puter (Word, Excel, Outlook, and Act remain open constantly and Acrobat Pro is used quite a bit), I am on it constantly throughout the day. RAM management is buggy, forcing me to reboot at least once a day.

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Is the current Mac OS super searchable like Vista is? As slow as our laptop is (and it is. slow. very. slow.) I'm already getting used to the neat capabilities.

I do not have the very latest Mac OS (Leopard, which came out Friday), but the search functions are fairly similar in robustness and speed.

Ghoulish Delight · 10-31-2007, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

I have been using Vista for a few months now and do not like it. It is, in my experience, less stable than XP (and I keep it up-to-date). While I do not do anything fancy on my 'puter (Word, Excel, Outlook, and Act remain open constantly and Acrobat Pro is used quite a bit), I am on it constantly throughout the day. RAM management is buggy, forcing me to reboot at least once a day.

Yeah, I've noticed the occasional memory leak (though to be fair, that's more likely the fault of some software vendor who incorrectly uses Vista's memory management interface than Vista's fault itself).

I'm hoping that SP1 (currently in beta) will address the performance issues I've seen.

NirvanaMan · 10-31-2007, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Is the current Mac OS super searchable like Vista is? As slow as our laptop is (and it is. slow. very. slow.) I'm already getting used to the neat capabilities.

From the reviews I have read on Cnet,the search capability in Leopard is supposed to be far superior to Vista. FWIW.

I may dual boot with Vista/Leopard, though I have been hearing some not so great things about Vista lately. Ah if only Windows 2000 was still supported. Or even better, NT 4.0.

Kevy Baby · 10-31-2007, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by NirvanaMan

I may dual boot with Vista/Leopard, though I have been hearing some not so great things about Vista lately.

Also, try a program called Parallels. A co-worker has it installed on his Intel Mac here at the office and it seems to work well.

BarTopDancer · 10-31-2007, 01:27 PM

My old roommate has a Vista PC and a iBook he dual boots (with XP). He hasn't had any issues with Vista and loves the dual boot feature of the Mac.

If you don't have your heart set on Vista, you could probably still find a copy of XP around to dual boot with.

My next computer will be a Mac. I love my XP Dells (desktop and PC) but I am not going to take the Vista leap for a bunch of reasons; stability being one of them.

Snowflake · 10-31-2007, 01:32 PM

And I am still hopping back and forth from one foot to the other. Looking longingly at the Macbook and a Dell XPS (or 1721 inspiron). Since I am working more in graphics (book and website) and podcasting, it would seem to make sense for me to go with a mac. I can run word on a Mac, right? What about outlook? What graphics program can I use? I have used, almost exclusively, Paint Shop Pro. I know I will have to invest in bunches of new software once I do make the leap, either way. (BTW, Kevy I just invested in the full version of AVG and fired McAfee, it's great!)

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Disneyphile SQUIRREL! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: On the curbside. Posts: 5,098	I used to live by, "Don't compute with fruit.", until I started editing. Now, I have a Mac G4 laptop and the ultimate Apple geekware - an 8-core Pro. And, I'll never allow Microsoft products to taint my fruit. I run that stuff on the PC. I love my PC for office stuff, but Mac owns the graphical world. Welcome to the dark side - I'm sure you're going to enjoy it.
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Cadaverous Pallor ohhhh baby Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Parental Bliss Posts: 12,364	Is the current Mac OS super searchable like Vista is? As slow as our laptop is (and it is. slow. very. slow.) I'm already getting used to the neat capabilities. __________________ The second star to the right shines in the night for you
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BarTopDancer Prepping... Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Here, there, everywhere Posts: 11,405	My old roommate has a Vista PC and a iBook he dual boots (with XP). He hasn't had any issues with Vista and loves the dual boot feature of the Mac. If you don't have your heart set on Vista, you could probably still find a copy of XP around to dual boot with. My next computer will be a Mac. I love my XP Dells (desktop and PC) but I am not going to take the Vista leap for a bunch of reasons; stability being one of them. __________________ Spork is the new MacGyver Postcards From My Edge
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Snowflake lost in the fog Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 7,831	And I am still hopping back and forth from one foot to the other. Looking longingly at the Macbook and a Dell XPS (or 1721 inspiron). Since I am working more in graphics (book and website) and podcasting, it would seem to make sense for me to go with a mac. I can run word on a Mac, right? What about outlook? What graphics program can I use? I have used, almost exclusively, Paint Shop Pro. I know I will have to invest in bunches of new software once I do make the leap, either way. (BTW, Kevy I just invested in the full version of AVG and fired McAfee, it's great!) __________________ Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde
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