Switching from Windows to mac?

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Just wanted to share my experience with the forum.

My wife upgraded to a macbook air, and i was not happy with it, as i believed in Windows (fanboy) and i was never going to use a stupid apple product, why waste my money on a over priced low spec laptop/iPhone/iPad??

So about a month in i started to play with the macbook, and downloaded some apps, foto editing, word and excell and some browsing.

This is where i started to think wait a moment let me install the latest mac os from what ever it had, and i was quite surprised with the ease of the process, where i had issues (pulling out my hair) dual booting linux alongside windows 10, that came pre-installed with my laptop.

Now it is a bitter pill to swallow when you have been using windows for so long, and was quoted saying people buying a apple mac are soft in the head, and realizing that you where wrong and that a mac is so much more advanced than windows, in what my needs are for a laptop, and that a mac just works no drivers(tried to download drivers for my printer only to see i just plug it in and print no driver needed) external hdd was read only, I can only copy from the drive not write to it. (Easy fix without a format needed to change the filing type) hdd's still ntfs but i can use it as normal and have all my data.

I have made a mistake with this whole apple thing, and am now seeing why people use them an are so devoted to the apple brand! I got my self a macbook pro 13 retina, and i have been using it as my daily pc for every things, spent a few bucks on software from the appstore, and now it does everything I need it to do and some more, every thing works so flawlessly together and it is a pleasure working on this pc, if things stay as well optimized and integrated as it is now, it will be hard for me to go back and use windows, if not impossible to go back.

Now i need a iPhone getting rid of my android as soon as i can.
 
So you were a windows fanboy, and are now an apple fanboy.....and are still gonna be telling people they've gone soft in the head. Wonderful!
 
It depends a lot on what apps you use the most. Developing C++ applications in Xcode is a royal pain (especially on a dual core i5 laptop) and Visual Studio on Windows is just magnitudes better.
 
Good luck with that - I worked on a Mac briefly a few years ago (troubleshooting something on it) and the need to press the control button to get a right click just grated my cheese. Didn't like it then, don't like it now
 
Nope, don't believe you. However I am willing to call your bluff, so I will try mac OS in a virtual machine, If it goes badly I will let you know, IF it doesn't I wont return to the forum as I my life would have been a lie and I would be ashamed to return.
 
cyberbob1979 said:
Good luck with that - I worked on a Mac briefly a few years ago (troubleshooting something on it) and the need to press the control button to get a right click just grated my cheese. Didn't like it then, don't like it now
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Right clicking using the trackpad goes back a decade so I'm afraid to say you grated your own cheese there.
 
I use my Macbook for everything, and I mean everything...
Even to configure Mikrotik routers using Winbox (which is run with WinE).

The version of WinE they pushed to OSX is far better than the one I used in ubuntu. Strange but very true. Winetricks is broken on OSX but that's OK, I don't need it.
 
cyberbob1979 said:
Good luck with that - I worked on a Mac briefly a few years ago (troubleshooting something on it) and the need to press the control button to get a right click just grated my cheese. Didn't like it then, don't like it now
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It's the modern world. A lot has changed.

Even though they had a lot of good logic for doing that back then.

gamer16 said:
Nope, don't believe you. However I am willing to call your bluff, so I will try mac OS in a virtual machine, If it goes badly I will let you know, IF it doesn't I wont return to the forum as I my life would have been a lie and I would be ashamed to return.
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You are going to have a bad time on a VM so don't even bother.


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OP your story is true for most who can genuinely open their mind to it and use it long enough to embrace the differences instead of spending 5 minutes with it and coming to the staggering conclusion that "it's not windows" which goes without saying.

I had the opportunity a few times to give someone a Mac for a month a number of times to say go try it as a cost free exercise. Every single one of them switched.

The problem is firstly a lack of exposure and secondly not wanting to take an expensive gamble.

I worked on Macs for 10+ years and changed jobs two years ago where I'm forced to use Windows and it's been a painful experience both hardware and software wise.

It's not for everyone, but if it caters to your needs it's awesome.
 
Lol jumping ship from Windows now that MS is finally getting their stuff together and at a time when people are also going back to Windows laptops? I see you got a "macbook pro 13 retina", take a look at the new Macbooks Apple launched this year to see what's coming...
 
backstreetboy said:
Lol jumping ship from Windows now that MS is finally getting their stuff together and at a time when people are also going back to Windows laptops? I see you got a "macbook pro 13 retina", take a look at the new Macbooks Apple launched this year to see what's coming...
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If you mean Windows 10?
I am sorry but that is a piece of shyte.
True Story: Started new job, got given Windows 10 laptop. This thing is so slow I switch it on and go make coffee, and come back later, it takes long to boot, is unstable. Opening up Eclipse causes whatever audio player that happens to be running, to crash. Takes over a minute to open apps... and its brand new.

No thank you...
 
Randy_The_Squirrel said:
If you mean Windows 10?
I am sorry but that is a piece of shyte.
True Story: Started new job, got given Windows 10 laptop. This thing is so slow I switch it on and go make coffee, and come back later, it takes long to boot, is unstable. Opening up Eclipse causes whatever audio player that happens to be running, to crash. Takes over a minute to open apps... and its brand new.

No thank you...
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Then there's something wrong with your laptop. ;)
 
Randy_The_Squirrel said:
If you mean Windows 10?
I am sorry but that is a piece of shyte.
True Story: Started new job, got given Windows 10 laptop. This thing is so slow I switch it on and go make coffee, and come back later, it takes long to boot, is unstable. Opening up Eclipse causes whatever audio player that happens to be running, to crash. Takes over a minute to open apps... and its brand new.

No thank you...
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IBIWISI. Installed Windows 10 on a 5400rpm drive from circa 2006 and even on there it was flying. Also seems like the IT department didn't do their job. I always fresh format a new laptop (even that is not needed anymore since MS released a app that will do it for free https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10startfresh) to get a "signature edition" laptop feel and remove all crapware installed by hardware manufacturers.
 
Randy_The_Squirrel said:
According to Lenovo and the supplier there's nothing wrong with it. Had the same experience with other machines too.
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The power just went out and came back on -about 10 mins ago. Not sure what it was but it went off and immediately came back on. My computer was up and running (done loading everything up) in about 10-15 seconds, waiting to connect to the internet, because the router was still booting up and connecting.
Same with my 5 year old gaming laptop.
Both have SSD's.
 
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