Times are definitely changing. I have been anti-mac for as long as I can remember… I never liked the idea that you couldn’t pick/choose your hardware and that you were really stuck with everything they gave you. I even avoided iPod’s and went for other non-proprietary mp3 players. Also, for years I built all of my own machines so that I could pick out decent graphics cards and such and not have to spend a fortune for a decent setup. As things have progressed my views have definitely changed and I’m certainly not a hardcore gamer like I used to be. My first step was picking up the new iPhone, with my massive travel schedule lately I wanted to have a way to access things easily and this seemed like a good way to do it. I was totally floored, the interface all worked just as I had expected, almost every website works perfectly fine… I couldn’t ask for more at this point. Then I found myself needing a new laptop as I needed a bit more power since I wind up working while traveling a great deal, and decided to give the Macbook Pro a shot. I most certainly do not regret my decision, and have now adjusted quite well to the mac after just over a month. I picked up a copy of parallels and threw windows xp on there so I could test (and still access domino designer). After dealing with a newer laptop running Vista I’m very glad to be away from it…
Who knows, maybe my next desktop purchase will even be a mac…
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I know how you feel. My Mantra for years was “I don’t compute on fruit!” but lately I’ve started to become swayed. I’m eyeballing a Macbook Pro myself (I just got a new beefy Dell with Vista, that I’m not in love with. But it will be hard to justify the purchase to my wife!) and I just recommended to a co-worker that he buy a Mac desktop for his home as opposed to a new PC. I hope my friends don’t find out!! lol
Scott Marchione
October 1st, 2008
Aye, Macs are a much better deal than they used to be. The regular Macbook at $1099 is actually comparable to just about any PC I could price with the same components (CPU speed, video, etc.).
As long as you stay away from those “upgrades” when you’re buying one from Apple.com, though — $500 extra for 4GB of RAM? Are they insane?
mdmadph
October 1st, 2008
Ah good point, I did go with the 17″ Macbook pro, but I didn’t get any additional upgrades. They are a bit outrageous.
Rich Waters
October 1st, 2008
@Scott – honestly Vista was one of the larger driving factors behind my change. Many things that worked fine in XP were removed or changed and caused me problems which I didn’t want to have to deal with. Also the fact that I couldn’t really revert to XP because they didn’t have wireless drivers for my laptop at the time.
Rich Waters
October 1st, 2008
I’m on my second new laptop with Vista default installed. First was a Sony, this is a Dell. I don’t understand the problems people speak of… then again, I always turn off all the stupid extra bloat features first thing.
Adam Alter
December 22nd, 2008
I have always been a PC fan, but I have never actually tried Mac before. For a first time user which macbook will you recommend?
Keen
February 10th, 2009