Can't Be The Only Mac Guy

[bp fick]

First, no interest in mac/pc wars. None. Silly as fighting over tractor colors.

That said, Windows topics (viruses, malware, Vista, 7, etc) come up from time to time and it got me to wondering. Surely, I'm not the only Mac guy on TBN?

 

[woodchuckie]

I don't have mac and I don't have any friends that have it. My son does use mac, but you know you can't choose your children.

 

[piller]

I'm not a Mac or Windows guy. I'm an open source linux guy since the mid 1990's

 

[bp fick]

Nothing wrong with that. Been doing linux since RedHat 4.0 The dark ages.

 

[B8FISH]

Traveling with my MacBookPro--son's shuffle in one port and wife's iPod in the other!

 

[turbo36]

iMac 27" Quad Core and 15" MacBook Pro

 

[CurlyDave]

I have been a Mac guy for 22+ years.

 

[arrabil]

Been a "Mac" guy since '85, a NeXT guy since '92, and a FreeBSD guy since 1.0. And STOPPED using Linux at kernel version 0.96.

 

[hilld]

We have 6 of them at home and in our photography studio. At my daytime job, I support over 200 Windows machines, but would rather use my computer at home, rather than "work" on it.

Derek

 

[Cat_Driver]

My first mac was circa 1978 and considered a toy and was considered a toy almost till the 90's when people started taking Apple serious.

I remember when I had the Apple and a laser printer ( that cost 5K back in the 80's ) and I ran my business with that pair. Back then it was only me nd the wide in our business but my proposals went out looking like the largest companies on the planet. Once I lost a big on a job because the client said she wanted to go with a SMALLER company. The wife and I laughed for years on that one. How much smaller can you get when it was only the two of us. It was worth losing the job to confirm my proposals looked like a million bucks.

Today I have a well built Mac and at any one time I'm switching from graphics design, to word proposals, CAD drawings in 3D, photo shopping and sending out photo's etc. etc.

The money I have saved alone is worth teh price I spend on my Mac.

I can work like four people on a Mac, but on a PC I'm a complete Moron and am lucky to get a letter written.


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[ronjhall]

Your MAC put a oversize picture on this thread.

 

[irvingj]

That's because Macs are so BIG!

Here are my two machines.... still have my 198? 1 MB Mac Plus in storage. I'm sure it will work if I just plug it in. The one on the left is my son's souped-up Quadra 630 from quite a few years ago, and I still use it for some school stuff.

Started in 1965 to work with computers-- back when if you wanted a computer to do something, you had to write your own program; kids in my middle school can't believe that.

Got away from it for quite a while, then jumped back in when the Plus came out. I've been happy with Macs, overall, but was REALLY pleased when my daughter got a PC laptop that I could load my VAG-COM VW troubleshooting software into!

 

[eepete]

Bought a refurbished machine to try Vista, decided that Microsquash still had not got it right after 20 years. Since MAC has BSD kernel hiding below it, jumped to the MAC PRO (8 processor, 12G mem, 2.2T in 3 drives). Sometime I like it 'cause it's good, other times just because it sucks less that PCs, there are few brain dead moments when I know that Apple hasn't got it all figure out yet.

Still have a PC for a few things that have to be on a PC and connect to hardware. Run parallels for other PC only programs. Have iMac and mac book PRO laptop. Use time machine to a 2T disk on firewire.

Started on PDP-8. Worked with many uPs. Unix since 1976. netBSD for product I'm working on now. Favorite language is C, worked too many lines of assembly on too many platforms.

The few things I can't do on a MAC are more than compensated by the reliability and speed of the things I can do.

Pete

 

[Lurch]

Mac man since the 80's. Not much use for PC's in a printshop.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Never cared for apple products due to their proprietary nature, and also since programming assembly on the early motorola processors that was backwards from others. My friends that use them love them.

 

[txdon]

I ordered a new dell that came with Vista a year ago. Right out of the box WARNINGS came on screen about a FATAL ERROR. I call Dell several time with no luck for a patch so I sent the Dell back and went out and got my first Apple. A month later Dell sent me the patch link - too late. I love not freezing up and rebooting, it is smooth sailing.

Has anyone installed the the new Mac OS X Snow Leopard?
What are the changes to Safari?

 

[CurlyDave]

Has anyone installed the the new Mac OS X Snow Leopard?

I installed it when it first came out. It was a nice improvement. Don't remember the specific changes, but I think that was the Safari change that included "top sites", a really handy page of thumbnails of your favorite web pages.

I think it is something like $30 for the upgrade. A good value for the money.

 

[MikePA]

I ordered a new dell that came with Vista a year ago. Right out of the box WARNINGS came on screen about a FATAL ERROR. I call Dell several time with no luck for a patch so I sent the Dell back and went out and got my first Apple. A month later Dell sent me the patch link - too late. I love not freezing up and rebooting, it is smooth sailing.

I've never had software problems with Dell....once I received the hardware. I ordered a Mini9 and after 2 delays, I canceled and bought one on eBay. I learned my lesson and ordered my Mini10v and a Mini9 for my daughter through the Dell refurb store where you know they have the item in stock.

Perhaps the reason I don't have software problems with Dell equipment is I wipe/replace the shipped hard drive and install the OS myself. One Mini9 is running Snow Leopard, the other Mini9 is running Win7, and the Mini10v is dual booted with Snow Leopard and Win7. Yes, all licensed versions.

Has anyone installed the the new Mac OS X Snow Leopard? What are the changes to Safari?

Like CurlyDave, I installed Snow Leopard on my iMac as soon as it came out. The only improvement I recall was it saved me quite a bit of disk space because Apple got rid of the PPC code. I also recall people complaining about the lack of drivers for older printers and there being Safari improvements, but since I use Firefox on all my computers, including the ones running OSX, I ignored them.

 

[bp fick]

Note: Thanks for sharing about your Windows or Dell experiences.

Well, since Mac or Linux users catch heck for mentioning the existence of such things and get chided for attempting to hijack on Windows 7 threads, we'll be more broadminded here.

I have not yet "upgraded" to Snow Leopard. There have been more reports of mixed results with 10.6 than I recall with any previous OS X release. On Apple's own website, the 3 out of 5 stars average review is a little off putting.

My MacBook, being a 2.2 Intel, would likely deal well with it, but my wife's older G4 iBook? hmmmm..... I think I will leave her alone with the rock solid Tiger 10.4 she uses happily. I have been less stable, less reliable with my MacBook 2.2 Intel, Leopard, Safari combination than any previous Mac setup, and I have had a bunch.

When I say I have "issues", I just really mean the one. The dreaded heat fan roar. All is quiet and all is well, and then the fan starts up and picks up RPM. The only way to stop it is to re-boot.

 

[MikePA]

My MacBook, being a 2.2 Intel, would likely deal well with it, but my wife's older G4 iBook? hmmmm..... I think I will leave her alone with the rock solid Tiger 10.4 she uses happily.

Snow Leopard only runs on Intel based Macs, so it would not even install on your wife's G4 iBook.