Switchers Stories

[RGrphc2]

I'm just wondering, who here is a switcher? Life long PC user, and then decided to try MAC and loved it? What was that little thing that caused you to switch.

Me, it was a mix of the iTunes for Windows, and the Apple store in Menlo Mall in Edison, NJ. I loved iTunes the second i looked at it, great user interface. Then i played around with the PowerMac G5's at the store, and i was like, this is so much better than Windows. 6 Months later, i had a Powerbook G4, and soon i shall have an iPod, within the next 3 weeks or so.

[smithy]

Im a Switcher. I had been using widnows since 3.1 with our first computer being a 386 when i was really young. We had other computers between then and the Hp Pc we bought. We bought a hp pc 800mhz 128mb ram and 32mb video onboard or something, we had all these troubles with it resulting in hp giving us a new computer. Then all the troubles started up once again with the totally new system ! That pc is really possessed. Now it has 384mb of ram and its still slow for some reason.....

Then it was time to get a new computer, i didnt know alot about macs then - i think i was anti mac from memory ??? And my sister said to get a Mac. At first i said no way, then i thought about it looked into it more and then after a couple of months of waiting for my dad to buy me a computer (but it was good wait, in the end) i decided to get either a custom built pc or a eMac. Well i got the Mac it worked out more expenisve over the pc but it was a good purchase. Oh yer and i got an iPod in that period of time, it didnt work on my possessed windows pc, even though yes i know there not designed for windows 98 SE.

I go back now to windows now and then and i get soooo frustraded because of how hard it is to use. Honestly using Osx everyday, going back to windows is pretty hard if you ask me. I know windows in and out but Macs are just way simpler.

Well thats it i think, in the shortest way by the way.. But im just so happy i got my mac - cause there will never be a big problem with it ....

[symphonix]

Me too. I switched about 4 years ago and the experience just keeps getting better and better all the time.

[Ceroc Addict]

My first computer was a MacPlus, which I loved.

When I did computer science degree about 8 years later, I switched to PC (would have been in the Dark Days of no Steve Jobs, when Apple had lost its way - it seemed like you had to own a PC). Since that time, I've owned 3 desktops (Dell, HP) and 2 laptops (Dell, Sony). They were all worthless pieces of crap (more because of the OS than just the hardware).

At the end of 2002, I was looking for a new mp3 player to listen to audiobooks with - the iPod caught my eye, but only the Mac version played audiobooks. Then the 15" Ti PB caught my eye (esp. the fact that it now seemed to have a linux base).

Got the iPod and the PB. I expect to be selling the PB soon (so I can buy a Mac mini), but it's been an absolutely gorgeous machine (and brilliant OS). If I had money, I'd buy 10 of them.

Kap

[Reality]

I switched from PC to Mac because I hated crashes, crappy hardware, crashes, crappy software, crashes and um crashes. Here is a short version of my moved to Mac story.

I was 17 and looking to buy a new computer. I had saved up about $300 but because I was doing just kinda odd jobs, getting the money was slow. So I had to make sure my purchase was worth it. At the time I was considering of just getting a Dell. I was seeing all kinds of TV ads for their cheap but convincingly good computers.

Then one day I heard of OS X in Popular Science or something like that. Then like a light bulb, the idea turned on in my head I had never considered before, "Hey...what about a Mac?". I never used or seen OS X ever before but had to admit as a PC user I always was curious about the Mac platform.

I did some research and was becoming convinced that OSX and a nice Apple computer could be just what I needed. It took all summer and a liot hope it be worth it but I saved up the $1,200 I needed to go buy me the high end eMac (the best Apple computer I could get for that at the time.) I took the huge step into uncharted waters and came home with a Apple computer. Despite my PC friends telling me how much they suck.

It's 2005 now and I had this thing for about 4 years and I love the Apple OS. It's easy, it's organized and in my opinion, a real computer. I can do everything I did before but this time I can do more just from what's in the Apple package. It might have took a few days to get the feel of how OS X works but I got the hang of it in no time and then really started to use it better then any Windows computer I owned before.

Now I'm a Mac fan. I get MacWorld monthly and own a nice little iPod. I even got my Mom to switch. She now owns a iBook and swears against ever going back to the PC world. :P

[Will_Richo]

My Story:
I have a friend who is always selling different PC's, he is a MS engineer. I went to his house for coffee one day and he had a 15'' Titanium PB on his table, at first i made fun of him having an Apple, but he said i could have a go with it. I started messing on the OS and found that it was real easy to use, then i played a movie from the HD and fell in love woth the screen and sound. I bought it off him there and then. I still use PeeCee's for some roles in my business but i am now trying to get as many Mac's as i can into my home and business. They are just so easy to use and reliable. I cannot believe how many things i have done in 12 months of owning a Mac that i have never done in 15 years on my PeeCee's

MAC's for life now.

[Randman]

I've always used and owned Macs. At my current job, I'm having to use XP and Windows Quark and it sucks. .Mac and iDisk and FireFox help but it's still on the weak side (not really a switcher story but my [temporary] foray over to the dark side). Makes me wanna hug my PB17 when I get home.

[powermac]

I first used Apple (Apple 11g-to first powermac all in one). Then I purchased a IBM Aptiva that came with winblows 98. After several crashes, installing linux, I decided that I must return to the Mac. Jobs just returned and the Imac was born. I purchased it and have not looked back. In a sense, no, I am not a switcher. I merely had a year of momentary laps of reason. I feel the Mac is getting better and better, love the idea of the future. When I purchased my Aptiva, the future for Apple looked bleak at best. Jobs was gone, and the company appeared to have no direction or vision. Now that Jobs is back, the possibilities are awesome.