What Changed You???

[fryke]

I'm not a big fan of post-deleting, either. But the two of you ignoring my comments on being off-topic even after you _apologised_ for it... I found it quite hard to believe, actually. All posts that were removed were only comments that further went into the whole Apple/MS story. I apologise for the inconvenience and hope that we can now hear more of our users' stories about how they came to be Mac users.

[Amie]

Originally Posted by Lt Major Burns

i notice a lot of deleted posts recently... is this the mods becoming more stringent? i'm not a big fan of post-deleting, i beleive forums should be about freedom of speech. be vocal about your distaste, and make people aware of their mistakes, but please don't delete posts.

Very well said. That is the sole purpose of public boards: to provide information, have discussions and cite opinions while exercising our rights as members as well as our rights to have freedom of speech. It's all too frequent that these moderators get so hung up in their "prestigious title" (ooooh, moderator!) and feel they have the right to delete posts--just because they don't agree with it. I've seen it again and again. It's sad really. Because what's going to happen is members will eventually complain and go to the very top with names of mods who are being immature and not complying within reasonable duties and overstepping their boundaries. And then people will tire of it. Quickly. And the mods who have had complaints filed against them will either be relieved of their duties, or this forum will end up with very little membership. Or both. Which, the latter would be very sad because this is such a nice place.

[fryke]

Read my above comment, Amie. And I _hope_ the reason for the deletion of 4 posts (one of them mine) is clear by now. The thread turned too off-topic and towards one of those Apple/MS bash-wars which have their own places imho. You completely ignored my "back to topic, please" remark, Amie, and I did not particularly like that.

[HoZ]

Been a mac user for my whole life (almost)
I grew up on a Power mac somthing or rather and then moved on to a G3powermac beige, kept it till it died and then got a windows something or rather(hated IT!) then i got my current computer, a Imac G5(first gen)

now i am getting a Mac book pro

[baldprof]

Windows Millenium Edition basically did it for me. I purchased a Gateway that came with that POS operating system. The reboots every thirty minutes got tiresome.

Then there was an HP laptop that just didn't like having a usb zip drive connected.

Most important: My aged parents, who were 85 at the time decided they needed a computer an got an iMac DV 350. I noticed how stable it was, and how it didn't crash when I attached my external zip drive. Six months later I purchased a refurbed iMac DV 400. Whem OS X 10.1 came out, I switched over to that and have never looked back. For two weeks now I have been using a new iMac Core Duo. Love it.

[ergo proxy]

I've been a mac user for just a few years. I attended a local Apple event promoting Jaguar in 02 and liked what I saw. When my beat up ibm thinkpad finally died a year later, I decided to try a mac and bought a powerbook. It's the nicest laptop I've ever owned and I was really comfortable with OS X.

When Apple announced that they were going to discontinue Shake for windows, I got myself a dual g5 powermac and bought mac versions of all my pro software. So far it's been a very positive experience

[Amie]

Originally Posted by fryke

Read my above comment, Amie. And I _hope_ the reason for the deletion of 4 posts (one of them mine) is clear by now. The thread turned too off-topic and towards one of those Apple/MS bash-wars which have their own places imho. You completely ignored my "back to topic, please" remark, Amie, and I did not particularly like that.

Calm down, Fryke. I didn't say my post was aimed at *you*.

[sirstaunch]

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BTW I have said it somewhere but not in this thread, I was lucky enough to use the very first Macintosh release, road runner, taking a snap shot in a threshold style and all those sorts of thing, where the owner of the Mac was able to dial into the airport and book his ticket etc

I played with Windows 3.1, how bland i thought, play cards, a program that designed houses then play cards again, woohoo! The Mac from the start had so much and i despised how Windows copied and stole so much I went against it over principle.

I loved the old small black and white screen the early Macs had and the graphics potential it had.

So i never switched, always loved Macs and when I finally got my own to play around and do my own things, from system7's there was no turning back.

I do repairs on windows systems and think this is b*llsh*t and think how easy repairing any Mac system has been. I hate in windows that MSN, Yahoo, and probably others, that when launched they show some giant add for some site, Macs just log in and nothing else flashing at ya, even the browser Opera was ment to support ads, but somehow, they never loaded into it for me at least and they did quite easily on windows. Eudora did though, but was never ugly or a bother.

my harddisk on the Mac was right at hand to access and find what i wanted. Windows, Start menu, sub folders in the menu etc, although the back and forward buttons were quite cool on a window and I wished Apple would implement then thought about time they stole something Microslops.

I hate that there has been movies removed off the internet imitating Bills Gates peeking through a curtain to spy on Apple to get ideas. That was a public persons opinion but somehow that was stopped (must be saying something) and never to be seen again since (but if anyone got it ) and who did stop it? Microsoft?

Then watching someone reinstalling XP

"Can you use your Computer yet?"

"Not Yet I have to update Security Patches and AntiVirus"

Although we have security patches too to update, but bloody, our machines are ready to use even when we fresh install, it logs into .mac or even our pop3 accounts during the setup procedures.

I argue with my Windows friend a bit, he just won't even give the mac a second look (because PC parts are cheap and easy to get) but I tell him, that's irrelevent, look at the system, look at the software, you don't need P2P to get movie editing or photo programs, it's on the Mac for the price you pay.

I sent him the link to the last keynote, he thought of it as sh*t but does have a thought that maybe now they have gone intel he may consider and get one.

He's played on my eMac and i showed him the dictionary trick of alt/control/D keys, he looked blankly at it and whats the big deal thing, he's seen that Adium has spell correct, and i want him to see how iLife intigrates so well, the address book is in my bookmarks to friends web sites, and the other OSX features, but on his own stubborness he won't give me the chance. Because he sticks to the argument, PC parts are easier and cheaper to get.

So i say, well while you are buying cheap PC parts my computer is running and working, and if I need extras for the emac, I'll just get external. He replies, I have extra slots and don't need external, I can put them in my box.

Yes, there are Macs that can do that too, except I chose an eMac because of what I want now. I feel my eMac is going to fullfill me for many years and even if I stayed on Tiger too, while his PC he's buying upgrade cards for things, VISTA he'll probably need extra CPU and all and subscribe to Norton antivirus once a year to keep updated.

So it's a reason I didn't stick, i feel some comments coming from this post, but remember, I am one person and it's how I feel and i won't be intimidated