Comments on: Why I Don’t Use a Mac

By: PissedAndPetty.com

PissedAndPetty.com — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:49:01 +0000

Vlad(previous commenter) wants you to buy a Mac. It’s just a thought.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:55:57 +0000

no offense, it’s just a thought.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:54:10 +0000

What if, you get a nice travel bag, a wireless mouse, and the most powerful 17″ macbook pro you can purchase, with 1980×1200 resolution. while you’re at it, stockpile a healthy dose of “Professional” applications, such as windows xp on a mac, either using bootcamp or VMware Fusion to get “the best of both worlds”. logic, final cut, aperture/lightroom, and add-in the apple iWork to achieve a perfect unison of a melodic workflow.

To suit your Extreme photo adjesting needs, purchase photoshop for mac, which comes extra 200MB of data added unto the mac version of the software, compared to the windows edition. after you spend the fortune to completely swap from the realm on 1995 windows (and all the software accompanying the investment), you will have a modern machine capable of outperforming any windows laptop in the industry, and still be able to enjoy all the features you want a consumer computer to accomplish. these features range from, chatting with friends, adjusting photos, movies, websites, blogs, myspace, and also web browsing.

However, if you were to be a serious “Creative Professional” you would look into the opportunity apple provides, openly, for any aspiring programmer/photographer/overall-genius. to have a computer is to have a portable office, where the tools needed to perform sophisticated coding and data-writing are always there for you to grab on the go. In my experience, windows offers zero to none consumer satisfaction, ease of use, overall efficiency. while apple not only provides the hardware,software, OS, and tutorials, they also stuff their best coding tools and automation utilities within the bundled software of the OS.

Apple.com will be your one-stop-shop for tutorials, purchasing anything-to-everything, and information. research this website of all the information about mac. spend over 10 hours on it, and find the joy everyone is having from their newly adopted lifestyle. It’s not a question of what is the best, for clearly mac is a winner. For someone claiming to be a “proffesional” whom only chooses the best in the world would simply buy a mac. Although to choose PC over Mac only has two categories to draw from:
Ignorance or stupidity.

It just seems like you don’t want to spend an extra $160 stacked on-top the laptop, for a travel-bag and mouse. Which tend to make your appearance of a sophisticated professional even brighter in the world of money hungry businessmen.

You see Ty, instead of the PC world, you don’t buy the notebook and stockpile 3rd party programs from different developers from around the world to complete your petty job requirements. With mac, you purchase the software, OS, Hardware, And complete support with wonderful and knowledgeable tech support with insurance. Also, you have the option of getting a .mac account, which is email and other fascinating functions, such as an idisk (internet storage utility).

It’s simply convenient to use one solution for your multible projects, without having to deal with microsoft and all your other 3rd party programmers and developers. Mac offers it all.

- Buy mac. :)

By: Austin Bender

Austin Bender — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:48:12 +0000

I used to work at apple and the ‘zazz always seems more important than the functionality. I’m by no means the most knowledgeable person here. I remember when I worked there they would speak of how awesome the hardware was (and it was) and that being a good reason to use it. This concept simplified, pretty much, mac has made some bad ass hardware that has been imitated but not so often duplicated. Their line of printers put their line of printers out of business, and it took 10~15 years for the rest of the market to catch up. (Apple laser printers rocked) They switched their chipset to intel in recent times… now before this, all I heard was smack about how intel was cheap and crappy by the Apple cultists, and some still stay true (to both apple and their point.) Apple doing this really sold them to someone other than me.. I mean, if your going to form essentially a cult around your technology, stay true to it.

First time I used photoshop or any other application within the same genre, it was on a power mac back in ’96ish or something like that. It was pretty cool… not necessarily on point, just seems like all you have with mac these days is nostalgia, old innovations (and a few new ones still), and too much flair.

Vista is the largest turd any company has ever tried to force down customers throats… If you disagree, then I’m glad it works for you.

I like your blog man! Have to get a drink when you aren’t traveling around (and if you are still in Austin)

By: Lucas K Allmon

Lucas K Allmon — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:30:23 +0000

Lori,

Multi-touch is that awesome. While I would say the majority of my commands to my computer are done with the keyboard (I couldn’t imagine a computer without a tactile sense of control), when it comes to needing it, I love the multitouch.

If you haven’t checked it out, you should try out Quicksilver. Launching apps and executing other commands becomes one of the most fluid things ever with it.

Pete,

I hear you man, Expose is phenomenal. I use spaces as well to keep my apps organized as well.

By: javi

javi — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:56:36 +0000

I’ve been using PCs for so long. I bought one macbook 6 months ago and I have to say that this is the best I’ve ever done (talking about computers). I work as a computer engineer so I spend so much time working with a computer. I feel so good when I go home and use my mac instead the PC of the office.
I think trackpad is something you get used to. I think, trackpads in mac are the best I’ve ever test because the many posibilities it have depending if you touch it with one finger or two. It can be so good if you get use to it.
Another thing I like about the macbook is the 5 hours the battery lasts and the weight it has. I think it would be so good for someone travelling that much. I use to travel so much too, and that’s why this is so comfortable for me.
Talking about the OS, I’ve been using Windows for a long time, and even Linux, and I would not go back to them now that I use MacOs. I had many problems with Windows having to format the computer several times, and it doesn’t happen with MacOs (at least for what I heard).
We all know everybody have its owns likes, but I’m so happy to have changed to Mac. I think that if you use it, you don’t leave it.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:57:26 +0000

Arun, not having a right click was very frustrating at first, now I would rather have 1 big long ‘left’ click on my laptop versus a split track pad. with 2 buttons for left and right click. Tynan is probably right, the macs trackpads are probably the best.

scroll with 1 finger
tap the pad with 1 finger-left click
tap the pad with 2 fingers-right click
scroll down a page- anywhere on the trackpad with 2 fingers not just to the very right.

You can’t live without your nub mouse, I’m lost without Spotlight or Expose (hot corners)

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:07:27 +0000

I couldn’t live without a multi-touch mouse anymore – the ease of scrolling – in both directions – is awesome

-P

By: Arun

Arun — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:37:56 +0000

I would switch to a mac if they incorporated a damn right click button!

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:20:20 +0000

Ah yea the 12″ sizes are sweet and I can see where you’d want higher res on those. My 15″ is about the biggest I can imagine porting around, it’s not too bad but smaller would be better. The MacBookAir’s keep nagging at me but they just don’t have the power yet for what I need, maybe the next gens will.

MultiTouch though is that awesome huh? Haven’t used it yet for a computer, I wondered a bit about that since my older one doesn’t have it. My ideal laptop I think though would have no KB or pad at all, just the computer under a small touch screen. Haven’t seen anything like that though.