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?
Who else has made the switch?
- Thread starter iramike
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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.
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.
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
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
symphonix
Scratch & Sniff Committee
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.
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.
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.
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
Registered
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
Then again, OS X is UNIX... so I don't know if I really "switched" in the full sense of the word