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It is really strange that the day before Steve Jobs’ passing, I touched an iMac for the very first time, and I have been around computers since the 80’s. I always fought it, but I happened to get a 24" Core 2 Duo iMac that was released to the city by the judge, and I am hooked!

I am in an all-Microsoft environment. I believe that using Parallel 7, I can maintain things and enjoy both worlds, putting aside my old tired Windows laptop. I would rather do that than have to dual-boot.

Anyone else a Mac fan but stuck in a Windows world?

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I have a macbook

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just set one up for a user for the first time and i liked it so i may get one

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Down with Mac down with Mac… i mean

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Our department is like that here, I have worked for this company for 4 years but moved into the IT department just a year ago. I would always talk with the IT guys about computers and they introduced me to Macs (they both have Mac Pros they use for the office). So after watching them for a while my desktop at home was on its last legs so I bought a iMac 27", my husband was a little hesitant about it because we play World of Warcraft and he was afraid it wouldn’t work with the iMac.

After a couple of months gaming on that he is now a Mac fan. We now have a Mac Mini ran to our 42" tv that we play movies and watch tv shows on, also have an iPad which he loves to carry around the house. The iPad I also use at work to take into meetings since I don’t have a laptop. When I moved into the IT department at work I was given a mac mini which works just fine for me, I use RDC to access my VM when I need it. We are slowly moving the small departments to mac minis, currently have 18 in place. But most of the company is still on Windows.

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I always keep a Mac around so that I have access to it but no matter how much I hope with each iteration that I will like it… I truly hate Macs. They are so slow and the interface is so difficult to use. Unintuitive and slow. I just can’t get to a point where it feels natural. The poor interface design and cluttered approach to everything is so difficult to use effectively.

Give me Gnome, KDE or Windows any day. And I love iOS too. I switched to iPhone and I use an iPad and iPod Touch every day. I think that it crushes Windows Phone 7 is usability. It isn’t that I don’t like Apple. But I just feel that Mac is a vastly inferior product in all of the most important ways. And I’m a UNIX guy who was SO hopeful that a FreeBSD derivative would dominate the field. But if you want a fast, easy BSD desktop - you gotta use PC-BSD.

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Scott Alan Miller wrote:

I always keep a Mac around so that I have access to it but no matter how much I hope with each iteration that I will like it… I truly hate Macs. They are so slow and the interface is so difficult to use. Unintuitive and slow. I just can’t get to a point where it feels natural. The poor interface design and cluttered approach to everything is so difficult to use effectively.

Give me Gnome, KDE or Windows any day. And I love iOS too. I think that it crushes Windows 7 is usability. It isn’t that I don’t like Apple. But I just feel that Mac is a vastly inferior product in all of the most important ways. And I’m a UNIX guy who was SO hopeful that a FreeBSD derivative would dominate the field. But if you want a fast, easy BSD desktop - you gotta use PC-BSD.

I have to agree with you on usability. Anything that was nice with 0S9 they totally destroyed with OSX. I run KDE in a VM on my windows 7 machine so I can vnc into the macs here and fix em’.

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I was an Apple user for years when I was growing up and even in college. Apple II, Mac II, Lisa, even stuck with Steve and used a NeXT. :slight_smile:

Then went Unix (Sun) & Windows after graduation. Until…

I bought my first MacBook Pro back in January. I love it!

I still keep a Windows desktop at home for doing grunt work, but my Mac is the one I love to use. :slight_smile:

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Mark4304 wrote:

I have to agree with you on usability. Anything that was nice with 0S9 they totally destroyed with OSX. I run KDE in a VM on my windows 7 machine so I can vnc into the macs here and fix em’.

Why not just use VNC from Windows?

I’ve been a Mac user since the 1984 original released. I have three of those originals still in my collection. But even then they were not nearly on par with the Commodore Amiga.

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Scott Alan Miller wrote:

I’ve been a Mac user since the 1984 original released. I have three of those originals still in my collection. But even then they were not nearly on par with the Commodore Amiga.

The Amiga was a thing of beauty.

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Scott Alan Miller wrote:

I use any excuse I can to fire up my VM and run KDE!

+1 for Amiga. No, they weren’t but they were very simple. Apple was the first computer I touched so I’m being a little nostalgic.

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EdT wrote:

I was an Apple user for years when I was growing up and even in college. Apple II, Mac II, Lisa, even stuck with Steve and used a NeXT. :slight_smile:

Then went Unix (Sun) & Windows after graduation. Until…

I bought my first MacBook Pro back in January. I love it!

I still keep a Windows desktop at home for doing grunt work, but my Mac is the one I love to use. :slight_smile:

Wow, someone else used a NeXt box? You even typed it right lol!

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i am and always have been a windows system admin, but i do love my guilty pleasure (Mac) but sometime i do want to throw against a wall really, really hard!

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Wow, what a mix of emotions this morning! I thought for certain the majority would be on Mac’s side :slight_smile:

For me, it’s something new to add to my cap. Never cared for Linux but I have had to teach myself enough to be dangerous. The more skills I can acquire the better.

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Every time I sit down at a Mac, I am just totally lost. Maybe if I had one to use on a regular basis it wouldn’t be so bad. My wife used to have a Mac, and has been wanting another one which I’m sure she will get eventually. When that day comes, perhaps I will make a serious attempt at using a Mac.

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Be careful, now that you are a Mac owner you will be more prone to buying skinny jeans and drinking Starbucks lattes!

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I’m fairly new to Mac, had a mac mini server about a month now as my primary workstation. I like it as somewhat of a VM manager - I like being able to swipe on the magic mouse and go to a different desktop (Win7, swipe over to XP). And I like the CoRD RDP manager quite a bit as well.

The OS definitely has it’s issues though. I’ve been trying to get the Profile Manager piece running, but as of right now the Web services will not start up, it just says “Error Reading Settings” in the Web Server box in Server :frowning: Also if I’m at the login screen, the screen will lock up until I pull up the sound dialog (pressing up/down volume), then it will unlock for a few seconds and I have to hurry and type my username/password before it locks again. Apparently both of these are new and somewhat common issues with Lion.

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I went from supporting Windows computers for ~5 years to a completely Mac environment (we didn’t have a single Windows server until we upgraded our phone system 3 months ago).

It was a pretty rough transition. Everything that I was used to in the Windows world, I had to re-learn and re-learn it the “Mac” way. The biggest thing that I have to remember is that there is only really one “good” way of getting something done…
…and when that “good” way doesn’t work, you’re pretty much stuck.

I agree with what Scott said earlier about usability. OSX is cluttered. It’s difficult to manage windows and to switch between open windows on one desktop. I’m constantly using spaces to switch between my open windows because I can’t easily cycle between my open windows, click-and-holding the dock icon takes far too long to switch between windows, and exposé sometimes takes too long to find what I’m looking for if I have a ton of windows open.

It’s an easy to understand UI, but it’s hard to keep it organized and clutter-free. Many of the users here are lifelong Mac users and their desktops are just a jumbled mess of icons on top of icons.

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first machine, amiga (great for music modding, way ahead of its time)

mac 2ci with b/w radius math monitor (2 monitor config ni the 90’s).

traded the mac for a 386/16 (regret).

486, then the pentiums, then the pentium 2, 3…

upgrade win3.0, win3.1, win95 .win98, winme, (winnt 4) winxp, win2000, vista (blech), 7 (awesome) redhat, mandrake, BSD,

last year bought an iMac for my GF (love it), did the bootcamp thing with win7 (pretty kewl, but mac kb shortcuts are cumbersome) still have to (and like to) use a windows machine for most tasks.

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My relationship with Apple products has always been a love / hate on again off again thing. I loved them when I was in school many moons ago. I loved them when I was working at Microcenter 1999, ATT@home 2000, and Sony Online Entertainment 2002-2004 (mostly because I was the driving force behind EQmac)

the days of the first iPods and the first iPhone’s granted right now I have nothing bad to say about their current product line.