Switching from Windows to mac?

[phly]

Lol, OP story is one I can testify too as well. I never went round thinking Apple users were soft in the head. But my view was apple products are too expensive and one can get an equivalent windows machine for cheaper that is more powerful, more customizable and just more. When my beloved Dell laptop died I had to get an alternative. I ended up investing in a 2nd hand Macbook. The good ol 2011 non retina one. It was a huge change from a core i7 to a dual core and adapting to a new OS and system and way of doing things.

Lo and behold I was a wiz through it in under a month and I never looked back. I got all the apps I required and alternatives for the rest. Used bootcamp to put windows for gaming and new parallels turned that bootcamp partition into a VM in minutes. Things were robust, no crashes, i don't even restart it or switch it off. I just enter pin and continue from where I was last. It has been an awesome experience and it feels like I have been using it for years even though I converted over only around march this year. Everything is seamless. I was so excited I even decided to amp up some things. Pushed RAM to 16gb. Mind blown, Life changed. Threw in 512GB SSD. Mind Blown again, life changed again. All I'm missing now is retina. May even trade this system in for a retina machine.

Anyways that's just my 3 cents.

 

[Sl8er]

Anyways that's just my 3 cents.

Typical apple, 2 cents'd too much, 1 cent would've been more than enough! Haha!

Things were robust, no crashes, i don't even restart it or switch it off. I just enter pin and continue from where I was last.

I've been doing this since Windows 7 already. It probably crashed a few times, but so little that I honestly can't think of any. I think I may have installed Windows 7 two or three times since I first installed it -when it first came out. The days of having to reinstall ( *cough*XP*cough*) because things "get clogged up" is long, looong gone. (And if you had to reinstall windows 7 all the time, then that's on you. And, "no" I didn't just use it for emails and the occasional internet search. It was gaming -mostly pirated games, back then, so muchness of install and uninstall of crap- and everything else that goes with using your computer, of course )

It has been an awesome experience and it feels like I have been using it for years even though I converted over only around march this year. Everything is seamless. I was so excited I even decided to amp up some things. Pushed RAM to 16gb. Mind blown, Life changed. Threw in 512GB SSD. Mind Blown again, life changed again. All I'm missing now is retina. May even trade this system in for a retina machine.

It's awesome when you upgrade and your machine feels like new!

 

[phly]

I used to reinstall windows 7 so many times that I got fed up. The reinstall was not the problem but installing and setting up all the apps I used to use. I ended up finding ways to clone the entire HD and back it up to an external and then restore it back.
Came to realize this works beautifully on mac with CCC. That if anything were to happen I can always restore my entire OSX with all the apps installed and set up just as it was when I last backed up. All in about 30mins or less. Just awesome.

Weirdly enough the system was faster with a 256GB SSD and 12GB RAM than now I have a 512GB SSD with 16GB RAM. The 512gb ssd is slower than its 256GB variant amazingly enough and for some reason this (8GBx2) combo is slower and i have even experienced lockups which I didn't have back then. May need to do a new thread/post perhaps someone more knowledgable can give input on how the system can "allow" all the ram to be used up till the system locks up.

 

[Sl8er]

I used to reinstall windows 7 so many times that I got fed up. The reinstall was not the problem but installing and setting up all the apps I used to use. I ended up finding ways to clone the entire HD and back it up to an external and then restore it back.
Came to realize this works beautifully on mac with CCC. That if anything were to happen I can always restore my entire OSX with all the apps installed and set up just as it was when I last backed up. All in about 30mins or less. Just awesome.

But now, you see how different experiences are? You reinstalled all the time, I never did -and I fcked around, proper. There was no need for me to keep a hdd clone at all. (I used to, with XP)

Weirdly enough the system was faster with a 256GB SSD and 12GB RAM than now I have a 512GB SSD with 16GB RAM. The 512gb ssd is slower than its 256GB variant amazingly enough and for some reason this (8GBx2) combo is slower and i have even experienced lockups which I didn't have back then. May need to do a new thread/post perhaps someone more knowledgable can give input on how the system can "allow" all the ram to be used up till the system locks up.

Bummer man. Usually the larger the ssd size, the faster it's supposed to be...BUT, of course it also depends on make and model / version. RAM...unless it's slower...I can't say. Hope you get to the bottom of it, though.

 

[capd]

Then there's something wrong with your laptop.

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.

I understand.
Saying "Windows 10 is slow" because someone probably isn't doing their job properly -when it comes to setting the machines up - is kinda' not true. (It's obviously not on you, it's on them, but you know what I'm saying.)

EDIT: Anyway, back on topic. Yay Mac!

Typical apple, 2 cents'd too much, 1 cent would've been more than enough! Haha!




I've been doing this since Windows 7 already. It probably crashed a few times, but so little that I honestly can't think of any. I think I may have installed Windows 7 two or three times since I first installed it -when it first came out. The days of having to reinstall ( *cough*XP*cough*) because things "get clogged up" is long, looong gone. (And if you had to reinstall windows 7 all the time, then that's on you. And, "no" I didn't just use it for emails and the occasional internet search. It was gaming -mostly pirated games, back then, so muchness of install and uninstall of crap- and everything else that goes with using your computer, of course )



It's awesome when you upgrade and your machine feels like new!

But now, you see how different experiences are? You reinstalled all the time, I never did -and I fcked around, proper. There was no need for me to keep a hdd clone at all. (I used to, with XP)



Bummer man. Usually the larger the ssd size, the faster it's supposed to be...BUT, of course it also depends on make and model / version. RAM...unless it's slower...I can't say. Hope you get to the bottom of it, though.

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