Apple Macbook Pro Still a Mac

I'm glad you made the switch, John! iMovie is wonderful... I use it on almost a daily basis.

Wow, Apple is going to have to pay you royalties for converting everyone.

But yeah, I agree. After having my Mac for a couple weeks, I wouldn't want to go without it. And I definitely wouldn't trade OSX for Vista.

I absolutely hate Macs. I'm currently working as Technical Support for Virgin Media, which is where I had my first taste of Macs.

Everything about Macs is just terrible.

You may have compatibility issues with Windows now n then but as long as you know your way around and know what you're doing, you're laughing.

OSX... any version, isn't half the operating system that Windows is.

I'm not talking about Vista though, anything beats Vista, they even know Vista is terrible now which is why they offer XP as a choice! Kill it Gates!

Windows XP is still king.

Mac is better than PC. Welcome to the year 2000 :wink:

I only used a MAC a couple of times and was impressed with the speed. The only thing that turned me off back then was I found it difficult to find different software for it...but it's 2008 now and I've noticed Apple is kicking butt in its industry. I guess its finally time for a MAC :!:

Congrats for getting a Mac!

Here is my experience with Mac Mini recently.

I've Lenovo T60 for about an year running Vista and for the past few weeks it has Vista SP1. Since the day I got this notebook, I've attempted several times to install drivers for my old (2 years?) HP4215. It never worked. The drivers would install fine but the printer wouldnt showup in Printers applet. So, whenever I need to print, I copy the files to my XP machine and print.

Last week I got my first MAC. It was Mac Mini. I powered it on for the first time and went through wireless setup, user setup etc. As soon as I was in, the very first thing I tried was printing a pdf file. I opened a pdf file and chose Print. There it was! My HP4215 was already in the printer list!! Literally within few minutes I was able to print! Not only that. MAC already configured my new Dell 24" monitor with correct color profile etc. On Vista I had to install the software that came with the monitor!

It has been a week and not even once Mac prompted to install a driver for any device I connected to. Sure, it did downloaded updates from Apple!

Why its so hard for Vista to load atleast a generic driver for my printer? I don't understand.

Setting up WiFi was too easy on MAC. It found my Wifi access point and its name was top on the list. It asked me to enter the passkey. Thats it!!

On Windows, you would have to type SSID, choose type of the key (open or shared, 64 or 128 bit etc).

Vista is just a pain...

Mac is that really cooooooool , Like i always says being No. 1 is not that you are superior to everyone there is Mac against superior windows

Same here. I always thought there was something weird about Mac's, but obviously it's a better machine than a PC.

No compatibility problems? Man, I have got to get me one.

I am reading more and more about people starting to like the Mac better than PC. I think I'll have to seriously consider it as my next computer purchase.
~Terry

I made the switch a year ago, after being a PC guy for 25 years.
I have not regretted it one iota, and probably will never go back to a PC!

Congrats on the Mac!

Not a mac user, but I respect their place in the computer world. It is cool to see it is packing an Intel chip though.

I have switched from Windows to a new iMac last December and I would not go back to Windows... ever!

Try GarageBand!!!

Hey John

Great site.....after seeing ur story and the other two dudes in the paper a few days ago ...it really inspired me

i have downloaded ur ebook and i am starting to follow it.
Im still working on my site but this its at a working level for now ...i hope to put as much dedication as you did with your site for mine

If you have time check it out ...its mostly guided for the hiphop world but all are welcome

thanks again :smile:

I told you John, Windows sucks a lot :grin: . The superiority of the operative systems based on Unix is very big.

Welcome to Macworld John! :mrgreen:

Hehe, nice video. :P

Macbook is good but it is a bit expensive.

If you stick with a Mac for a while and then try to switch back, any PC will feel like a clumsy, complicated version of a Mac. So if you don't want to get hooked - get out while you can :)

For your YouTube videos, it's very simple to add music with iTunes or effects with Photo Booth (this one is addictive, make sure you have some time before you open this :))

Maybe I should put a bit more consideration into the whole Mac thing. I have always been a PC guy, but hey, if it can influence you then it might influence me. Great video by the way, haha :D

I'll be switching to Mac in another month. Right now I've got two PC's that for most reasons work fine, but I just feel it's time to move to a Mac. That and I'm a Microsoft Student Partner, so that has something to do with it.

Bottom line, all my Mac using friends keep getting me with the argument of "you can run windows on a Mac now, there's nothing you can do in windows you cannot do on a Mac."

Nice video. Having taught kids in my first life, I can imagine the grief Ashley will give you....with that smile on her face! :mrgreen:

I saw that dual monitor setup you got a few days ago. With the Mac desktop it's a snap. Just plug and play. No drivers to install. It just works!

Congratulations!
I never understood that you had the time to use Windows.
With Mac - I never waste my time, like I did, when I used a PC with Windows.

You need to talk a little bit louder... I like the blog of lady chow. :)

I'm buying it!

And at a price of around $2,000 (as we can see from the TTZ Media widget) it's not completely out of sight. I'll have to seriously consider one.

Hi John,

I definitely have to agree, I upgraded to a Mac Pro Dec of last year and I LOVE IT! :)

WAAAY better than Windows!

That's cool John. I will definitely take your experience with the Mac OS when it's time for a laptop.

You can take my PC when you pry it from my cold dead hands...

I'm a gamer though, so I don't need a mac. Of course, if you want to give one away, I'll enter the contest :wink:

Wow! What a 180! Welcome to the light side.

@Mike
Ashley is john's daughter...

By the way, if you have a usual AMD or Intel PC Machine, which runs with Windows - PAY ATTENTION! It's now possible to run Mac OS X on PC with only a little knowledge. You should really Blog about this John Chow, it's a booming Niche called Osx86.

If you have an AMD PC:
http://osx.kbot.de
If you have an Intel or AMD PC:
http://mac.kbot.de
http://insanelymac.com

Have Fun! :wink:

Hahah cute video! I'm glad you like the mac, though I'm personally gonna stick with Windows. I don't like the almost superficial look of macs, it's kind of the same problem I have with Vista.

Maybe one day I'll give them another shot, but for now it's Windows for me!

That was a funny "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo"!

You cheated in rock scissors paper. :razz: BTW, never had a chance to see MACs OS,but everything is better than Windows.

Great! It will be my consideration for making money...

Come on John, you're half way there. Now in a year or so you'll realize that OS X really sucks too, and you'll finally take the plunge into Ubuntu.

Linux, it's what you really need!

Macs are great until you realize that there isn't very much software available for it. Go to Best Buy and compare the number of Windows apps versus Mac apps. That's not surprising if you consider the world wide market share. I remember reading not too long ago that there were 650 million PC's and 22 million Macs. If you were a software developer, which one would you like get a 1% market share with?