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05-25-2010, 04:22 PM
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Some of you remember the thread I created about my wife buying an iMac. Yippee, yay. I allowed it in the house as long as she kept it in her office and didn't turn into a Mac snob on me. I checked it out a few times. Cool computer for sure, just not my thing.
Well, now she went and got herself a Macbook Air. You know those little tiny laptops that look like a pee-chee?
So she has now disposed of her Windows devices. I got the desktop back from her when she went with the iMac and I use it for a media server. She returned her work laptop after imaging it with Fusion so she can run Mac and Windows 7 on her laptop.
I will admit that Mac has some cool features, sure. But that is ALL I am admitting for now. 
-Mike |
05-25-2010, 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by MJ5150  Some of you remember the thread I created about my wife buying an iMac. Yippee, yay. I allowed it in the house as long as she kept it in her office and didn't turn into a Mac snob on me. I checked it out a few times. Cool computer for sure, just not my thing.
Well, now she went and got herself a Macbook Air. You know those little tiny laptops that look like a pee-chee?
So she has now disposed of her Windows devices. I got the desktop back from her when she went with the iMac and I use it for a media server. She returned her work laptop after imaging it with Fusion so she can run Mac and Windows 7 on her laptop.
I will admit that Mac has some cool features, sure. But that is ALL I am admitting for now.
-Mike | You will be assimilated... 
...it's happening to me, slowly but surely...
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05-25-2010, 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Gard You will be assimilated...... | Not until they put the red close button on the top right. It doesn't belong on the top left.
Oh yeah, I want a start button too.
-Mike |
05-25-2010, 04:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Tustin, CA | | | my little brother is the same way...he has an iMac as well. It just feels wrong when I use it, but a lot of the features are pretty cool. Convenient I guess once you get used to them. I, however, will not
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05-25-2010, 04:39 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MJ5150 Not until they put the red close button on the top right. It doesn't belong on the top left.
Oh yeah, I want a start button too.
-Mike | If you're using the mouse to close windows then you're doing in wrong. cmnd + w |
05-25-2010, 04:49 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Chico, California | | I support your wife in all she seeks! I'm using a Macbook Pro as I type this, even though I'm typing with a DELL keyboard (I spilt bongwater on my laptop and part of the keyboard doesn't work anymore  , but that's a different story).
Although I have to say I'm not a big fan of the macbook airs. You use important features of a laptop, for the sake of sleekness, which I'm personally not fond of. BUT Apple's technology is crazy, especially with this new iPad. It's gonna change portable computers forever.
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05-25-2010, 04:51 PM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar If you're using the mouse to close windows then you're doing in wrong. cmnd + w | About a month ago, I used cmd+o to open a highlighted application. It was then that I realized I had become a productive individual.
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05-25-2010, 04:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | | Let me just say right here and now........
Welcome to the Dark Side.
Once you go Mac you cant go back.
I still have to keep my one PC to run my CAD/CAM software on. I'm not springing for the update that runs on a Mac. That's half a Harley. |
05-25-2010, 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker Let me just say right here and now........
Welcome to the Dark Side.
Once you go Mac you cant go back.
I still have to keep my PC to run my CAD/CAM software on. I'm not springing for the update that runs on a Mac. That's half a Harley. | I went back.
In a sense, you did spring for an update, as you are now paying to maintain two systems instead of one. That's why I went back. |
05-25-2010, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by fdeck I went back.
In a sense, you did spring for an update, as you are now paying to maintain two systems instead of one. That's why I went back. | Why didn't you just put windows on your Mac? |
05-25-2010, 05:11 PM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar Why didn't you just put windows on your Mac? | It was a Power Mac. It had a "PC Compatibility Card" and was running Windows as well as Mac OS. But when it was time to upgrade, I saw no compelling reason to maintain two systems.
Today, it's bad enough that I have to maintain one bloated propietary OS, much less two. I'd ditch Windows in a heartbeat, but it runs some software that I use. |
05-25-2010, 05:39 PM
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Keep coming back to windows. Im happy.
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05-25-2010, 05:49 PM
| | | *sigh* Mac snobs.
...well, except Janie Porche. She was pretty hot. 
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05-25-2010, 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by LiquidMidnight *sigh* Mac snobs. | And Windows users are what exactly? 
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05-25-2010, 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by stinger12345 Although I have to say I'm not a big fan of the macbook airs. You use important features of a laptop, for the sake of sleekness, which I'm personally not fond of. BUT Apple's technology is crazy, especially with this new iPad. It's gonna change portable computers forever. | Do you mean lose important features? The only thing I see lacking in my wifes Air is a CD/DVD drive.
What has the iPad changed forever? It's cool and all but I don't see anything groundbreaking on them. We have two Macs, an iTouch, and some iPods in our house, so I assure you I am not trying to start an argument here.
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05-25-2010, 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by L-A And Windows users are what exactly? | For the most part, we are just regular people.  |
05-25-2010, 08:19 PM
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05-25-2010, 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Thunderscreech Windows is superior to Mac when running AutoDesk Applications like CAD, Revit and Inventor. | If you have an app that costs more than the computer, then you can afford to dedicate a computer to that app. At my day job, I carry around a $1000 computer and a $4500 dongle. |
05-25-2010, 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Thunderscreech Windows is superior to Mac when running AutoDesk Applications like CAD, Revit and Inventor. | Looks like AutoDesk will reintroduce AutoCAD for the Mac. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...o_the_mac.html
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05-25-2010, 08:34 PM
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