Hey Mac Lovers, Please Talk Me Off The Ledge….

[Jimbob11]

So one day a few months back I went full-on batsh*t crazy and bought a Mac. I'm not really sure how it happened. One minute I'm standing on the sidewalk minding my own business and the next thing I know I'm standing in the doorway of an Apple store. Ten Beautiful nude angels then descended from the ceiling beckoning me further into the enchanted forest…..It's pretty much a blur after that. The only thing I do remember is a lot of irrational rationalizing.

So now that the after-glow has worn off, I'm wondering what the hell I was thinking? Aside from better (Okay, MUCH better) virus protection, what is this sleek, shiny, really expensive computer really doing for me except making me feel like a sucker?

Come on Mac people, help a brother out. Make me understand.

OR - if you can't do that, then maybe you'd like to trade for it? All serious offer considered. Electronics, guitars, motorcycles, small aircraft, girlfriends, exotic pets. Be creative…

iMac 27"
3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Radeon HD 6970 2048 MB
Mac OS X Lion

[chadizzy1]

I won't talk you out of it at all.
It was one of the best purchases you've probably ever made in your life.
Welcome to the club, you're now one of us.

[Jimbob11]

I won't talk you out of it at all.
It was one of the best purchases you've probably ever made in your life.
Welcome to the club, you're now one of us.

I hear you. I'm not really knocking them. Very well-designed and have a longer lifespan than PCs. But for a longtime PC person, it's like starting over. Not to mention that my mad software pirating skills are almost useless now

[chadizzy1]

I hear you. I'm not really knocking them. Very well-designed and have a longer lifespan than PCs. But for a longtime PC person, it's like starting over. Not to mention that my mad software pirating skills are almost useless now

Using a PC is like walking around in life with a 500 pound gorilla on your back.
Mac removes the gorilla from your back.

[shikitohno]

Using a PC is like walking around in life with a 500 pound gorilla on your back.
Mac removes the gorilla from your back.

Using a Mac is like paying someone an extra $1 per pound to get the gorilla off your back. Using Linux is like realising you can tell the gorilla to bugger off yourself. I still don't understand the alleged difficulty of using Windows, to be honest. I don't like it as an OS, but seriously, not that hard. The Mac boys paint it like you need to be on 24/7 alert, when in reality, you can pretty much configure it and forget about it. You don't even have to bother yourself to do updates for it, you can just set nigh upon everything to automatically update itself.

Jimbob, if you had a particular use for it that Macs excel at, then it's a good buy. If you're already comfortable with Windows (ie, you don't consider installing a free anti-virus program when you buy a computer an unbearable strain like these lazy Mac'ers ) and you just bought it for general use, maybe not so much. Heck, if you weren't happy with Windows, it might have been the right choice for you too. Comes down to circumstances.

[Bigblue1]

If it's not for you it's not for you. Really don't think I need to justify my love for my Mac's to make you feel better about your purchase..... Really have no need for another or anything I can think of to trade. Pretty sure you could ebay it or craigslist it at a very nominal loss, Best wishes to ya..... Then again the real pleasure of owning a mac in my opinion comes 4-5 yrs down the line when it still runs real good without much tinkering, also plug and play has been seamless for at least 10 yrs.... just points to be made. like I said you should have no problem at all unloading it, if that's how you wanna play it......

[snusar1988]

you're a lucky guy! have fun with your new "toy"! i've also a mac (MacBookPRO 15") and i never look back to this f*cking Windows times

[squeezyjohn]

They're both not perfect in different ways. Which one is best for you is down to how you use computers.

Mac makes expensive products to a high standard, the high cost of much of the software and lack of alternatives along with the innate smugness of the company is very annoying.

Windows is flaky unless you know the complete ins and outs of your own particular system and build it carefully, if you invest in good hardware and keep on top of it's maintenance then you can get the same kind of performance for less money with more flexibility.

I'm lazy and smug so I use a mac. But I also run windows on it because there are some things it just can't do.

[EricHill78]

[Bigblue1]

I'll raise you Eric H

[Ainkor]

I think the apple stores have a 30 day return policy if you really don't like it. I'm pretty even keel about the whole Mac/PC debate. I have an HP i7 desktop I use that is pretty awesome. I do have a second hard drive that that I boot into OS X just in case I want to goof around with it though. I do find at times when I have messed around with OS X that since I don't have to commit to it, I usually don't. It is a differrent paradigm but it is pretty smooth overall.

Tell ya what though... If you want to trade and get rid of it, I'll throw you my two screen setup (two 21" monitors) and I'd even throw in a spare HP Touchpad I have laying around :P (i7, 8g ram, ATI 6250, 1t hard drive +500gig OS X hard drive)

On a serious note though, you can get parallels and virtualize Win7 on it

[heders]

Mac runs pretty smoothly, doesn't get viruses, and is pretty to look at. But for the price of a Mac, you can get a wicked fast PC which will be just as fast and smooth as the Mac; if not faster.

I have a Mac now because I'm borrowing one from school. It's messed up though and has been from the start... the computer slowly stops working during the day which has to be resolved with a restart. Before I do that, I get errors when I try to open programs and when I surf websites, nothing happens when I type in a link or open a bookmark.

Also, there a lot of programs (games especially) that doesn't work on Mac and runs extremely bad in Windows emulation software.

Nah, when my borrow time is over, I'm getting a PC. Much easier and better.

[lxskllr]

I don't do Apple, period. If I were given one, I'd give it to someone else. I like to be in control of my own devices, and not artificially limited to what some company tells me I can do.

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die -- not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.

Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective.

[heders]

I don't do Apple, period. If I were given one, I'd give it to someone else. I like to be in control of my own devices, and not artificially limited to what some company tells me I can do.

That's another great point, and the reason I chose an Android phone over an iPhone. It's also the reason I will buy a PC when I'm done borrowing this Macbook Pro.

[devilock76]

That's another great point, and the reason I chose an Android phone over an iPhone. It's also the reason I will buy a PC when I'm done borrowing this Macbook Pro.

I don't consider android devices that much more control when combined with some of the bad versions of them. Android has two major problems in my opinion (and remember I am a big time linux/bsd guy)

1. Google did not elect to use a real time kernel.
2. Google does not publicly release the kernel source code (last I checked).

1 could be fixed by 2, if someone so chose. The fact that Android gets such horrible audio latency is just a problem with me. Symbian phones from 6 years ago did better.

Ken