Who else has made the switch?

[iramike]

I am very happy to have found a forum devoted to all things OS X and Apple. I recently made the switch and I was just curious to see who else was smart enough to do it. I am going from a P4 1.8 with 512 of Rambus, a ATI All In Wonder 8500DV and roughly 250gigs of free space, I've moved to a 12inch Powerbook with the Superdrive and so far I've not been disappointed. So who else has made the switch and what did you used to use?

[Giaguara]

Hi iramike - Welcome on board

I did kind of switch ... but for a long time I used more than one system. I had before Macs a P2 notebook ... that had had about all the Windwozes, and some Linuxes.. Linuxes were nice, but I .. still wanted a Mac. So I got it, played casually still with the PC .. untill I sold it and remained Mac only.

[davez]

I switched. I learned on the old Apple IIE. At that point I purchaced a pc because of the huge price difference between apple and pc's. I could not afford the apple. That was in the early 1980's. I switched back to Apple about 6 months ago. I was using a Sony Vaio PIII 800 with 512mg ram and 40 gig HD. It worked pretty well except that it came with Windows ME (Microsofts worst ever OS). Once I upgraded to XP it been OK. I switched to a Powermac 933 with 1.5gig ram, one 60 gig HD and two 80 gig HD's.

I wish I had switched a long time ago. What a joy to use OS X. It works!!! I run Virtual PC for those pc apps that I need to use but otherwise I am a MAC user now.

I hope your your switch is a good for you iramike

[Reality]

I'm a switcher. I got my first apple late last year and don't regret it.

[symphonix]

I am a burning-my-bridges-by-giving-away-all-my-PC-stuff switcher. I'm much happier now that I have a computer that works the way it is supposed to. If anyone asks me for help with fixing their PC now, I just tell them to dump it and get a Mac, so they can stop bothering me.


If they get stroppy, just say: "Oh, all right then. Just re-install Windows and your problem will go away for a while."

Well, it is kinda true.

[fryke]

I've switched several times:

Atari ST 1040 STf
Amiga 2000
Atari ST 1040 STf
IBM PS/1
Macintosh PowerBook 150
...
and then some Macs.

(I've also used Win95, Win98, Win2K, WinXP occasionally and administered Linux servers and workstations with SuSE 6.3, 6.4, 7.0-7.3, 8.0 and RedHat 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0.)

I am definitely (still) a switcher.

[Mike Hughes]

I recently ditched my x86 machine for a dual 1.25 G4.

Then again, OS X is UNIX... so I don't know if I really "switched" in the full sense of the word