A Mac experience (by a PC user)
I was a PC user from the day I knew there was something called a computer (286, 386…), and I started using it like every little kid would, playing games of course. My favorite were “Dave 2″, 2D FPS, “Wolfeinstein” and “Test Drive” all on a 5,25″ diskette. I didn’t care about usability, memory, OS and all that “boring, unimportant stuff” :) And years past by me like a sentence like this one (no I’m not feeling old yet :P), I started doing some “real” stuff on a PC…
Couple days ago my PC reported CPU fan error and didn’t boot up, so the next day I decided to buy a new one. I bought an iMac 20″, unpacked it, and from that point the “Mac experience” started.
From the boot up I was amazed, everything was in the right place. No need to wait (long time) for the system to boot up, no “lag” with the moving and working with windows and programs… Memory distribution is great, I love the Dashboard and Spaces. Installation of programs is a simple drag and drop. If u are a web developer get MAMP which is an apache, mysql & php package, u drag it to app folder and u r set to go :) I did have trouble with finding the “@” key since its not marked on the croatian keyboard.
The whole Apple philosophy is great, u have a few product versions with different hardware config, so the consumer is not confused, and they take care of details on designing their hardware & software. Did I mention that I have a clean desk at last, no wires laying around…
Nothing really new I guess, but for me that was and is going to be a whole new experience with Mac.
BTW If u have some cool widget that u use, please tell us what that is.
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Yup. Mac’s great after a pc. It took me a month or two to get used to it’s flaws (10.4).
Biggest problem I’m facing is the awful image preview and an absolute absence of an acdsee and winamp equivalents. But, we’ll take care of that in time. :)
It bugs me however, how stupid apple guys made their menus, after studying Fits’s law and all that, they made a hole in their menus, if you miss the line where it says ie. “preferences” by a few pixels, your whole menu dissapears. Shit.
I hate that.
And the inablitiy of selecting files like win style “ctrl+shift+click”… it’s not that great really. Not tiger at least… :)
@lekke, place “Sent from my Mac Book Pro” in each e-mail you send :p
Your CPU fan failed so you bought a Mac? WTF?
@matej
I had an old PC, and the fan wasnt the only thing that frustrated me…
Rubick
it’s a rubick’s cube widget.
Nice article. I’m still a Pc user , but I did think a few times about getting a Mac. XD
I was a pc user for 20.., no 26 years.
2 weeks ago, I bought my first mac. iMac 27″ i5 12GB RAM.
I will NEVER, NEVER again use a pc.
Everything works, even though I need to find out where everything is located/works.
Never again that PC shit. :)