> Hi, * Hi Scott.
> As I have said, I am thinking about switching to the Mac and have been trying > to gather more information about it. To that end, I have been asking > specific questions. I will continue to do that but I would like some general > feedback from people who have made the switch from Windows to the Mac. Why > did you switch In the first place? * I didn't switch at first. I got a Macbook Pro in 2009 because I was going back to school and wanted a laptop that would take notes and that I didn't have to install JAWS on. In terms of cost savings, I looked at the costs vs. benefits of buying a Windows machine, a Windows license, Office, JAWS, plus the time required to reinstall and configure the system the correct way--including all of the anti-malware apps, disk configuration and all of the other tweako things you do with a Windows machine. When I got my Mac, I turned it on and was surfing the web and checking my email in 10 minutes flat. I've never had to defrag, do disk clean up, tweak an app, nor have I had a single virus or case of malware. For me, the benefit outweighed the cost. I kept a PC running to use Office until its power supply nearly caught fire in my house. I completed my Master's degree by learning to mark up documents in Pages with formatting, table of contents, pagination and sectioning. As an entrepreneur who needs complex spreadsheets, Numbers has worked like a champ. The holy grail of Mac accessibility is MS Office, but I think that is far in the distant future. > Having switched, do you feel that it was the right choice for you? * Yes. I've saved lots of time and frustration by making the Mac my sole computer. I will probably get a PC for my office to work in Excel much faster than in Numbers, but all in all, I'm happy with the Mac as a platform. > Do any of you regret having switched or have you even gone back to the PC? * No regrets for what I need to do. I've used PCs for work since switching and I still do all of the tweako things to get it to work right, but I doubt I'd make a PC my main machine. I have the Windows 7 DVD sitting in my desk, as I thought I'd be using BootCamp, but it's been a glorified paperweight ever since I got it. I've used my Mac to administer websites in WordPress, run MOnte Carlo simulations in Numbers, convert high-res video and audio, record bands and much more without any complaints, system hangs, kernel panics or critical software failures. Both platforms have their advantages and disadvantages and having a machine that's accessible out of the box for 97% of the most common tasks you need to do on a computer is a huge bonus. Cheers, Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
