I personally find that there is a stigma attached to mac for graphic persons.This is because back in the days the Apple mac was a more powerful operating system than PC was,Thus the graphic people preffered to use macs.In all honesty the day and age we are in i find that the PC can handle as mush as a mac can graphic wise.
I made a transition over to mac from PC about 3 years ago and can navigate round it fairly easy.
Not to say i still use PC for a number of things to which it has the advantage over a mac.
Hope this helps ya
Apple has a webpage over this question : why choose a Mac.
You will find it http://www.apple.com/switch/
Sure it is partial. But at least it answer many questions about the switch.
Best regards
Philippe JACQUES
Author of the NCS MagiSign plug-in (http://www.magisign.com)
Mac or PC, redheads or blonds.....Ginger or Mary Ann, Coke or Pepsi.
That's what you're looking at.
About 15-20 years ago I discovered computers and spent the next ten years tweaking, building, destroying, loading and unloading Windows OS's, and various flavors of Linux and Unix and on and on and on.
One day I woke up and realized I was a red hot computer geek that could solve any and all problems on a computer, yet I never used my computer for anything other than teaching myself how to fix a computer. Then I woke up another day and realized how much I was enjoying Unix over Windows due to a lack of viruses, pop-ups, spyware, malware, etc.
I took a long look at Mac and decided it was Unix with an impressive graphical interface. I bought a G4 laptop and fell in love. My wife runs Windows 98 Japanese and hardly a week went by where I wasn't fixing something and of course the Japanese gave me fits. I actually had to keep a cheap computer around with Win 98 in English so I could refer back to it just so I could fix her computer.
I bought her a Mac Mini a while back and it bounces back and forth between languages with a mouse click. No virus worries, no pop ups, no malware, no spyware.
I still have a Windows XP machine I cut signs with and everytime I get on it a box pops up and tells me that the spyware scan is complete, and another box pops up and tells me update my virus definitions.....then yet another box pops up and tells me to download a security patch from Windows Update, then it tells me I have unused icons on my desktop.............Heck it's 2 or 3 minutes before I can do anything.
In my opinion Windows XP is a gigantic turd compared to Mac OS 10.4 Tiger. A smelly one too!
John
XP does have a vast myriad of problems...sometimes it recognizes my external floppy drive...sometimes it doesn't and throws up a big "Oh My God What Is This Infidel Trying To Infiltrate The System??" window. Often you have to go the long way 'round to get to the shortest point...No, it doesn't make sense, even though XP will send all the error reports in the world for you to Microsoft...but then what? You get to read some lengthy tech talk info page that may mean something to you, John, because you understand the inner workings of these electronic demons, but to the average user (like me) it is just another hoop to jump through to get: nowhere! I spend a LOT of time cussing my computer. Fortunately I found a tech rep I like AND trust AND don't feel like a complete buffoon trying to describe what is going on within my machine.
I better stop bad-mouthing my computer, too, because it knows when I am talking trash about it and it WILL f*ck something up for me...oh sure, maybe not right now...but later, when I've forgotten I wrote something negative about it: *blip* So much for that artwork!
Have a great day! :-)
Kate the bohemian
computers is that you wouldn't tolerate failures from an appliance (and a computer is an appliance) such as a refrigerator or an over. Imagine restarting your oven 30 minutes into a pot roast routinely or coming home and having to reboot the refrigerator which crashed Friday night when you left for a three day weekend trip.
Or your TV crashing while watching the final two minutes of the Super Bowl.
I can figure most things out but my poor parents cannot. How terrible is it when you have $2000 dollars worth of computer and can't scan a document to send to your bank without the file being 3 meg. Why have things like resolution dpi when it should use words like "big", and "small".
Our kids will get it, but our parents never will.
For me, Mac is intuitive and very user friendly. It took me about a week of learning curve to get the hang of it and now I USE my computer as a tool for my life. I'm a digital photo freak and now I'm making more and more complex signs and decals. Quicken, iTunes, LabelMaking, etc, etc, etc.
John
My mom spent a small fortune on a nice pc system...so she can play Freecell and get email. Oh, she initially bought it so she could create designs for her embroidery machine but the non "user-friendly" manuals, let alone the inability to decipher the dang things or create a harmonious link-up between the two, have kept her from creating much except stomach distress!
In reference to your analogy about restarting your oven every 30 minutes: LOL! How about that pot roast smelling really good, got the table set, folks sitting around the table drooling...open the oven door...HEY??!! WHERE'D THE ROAST GO??
Kate the bohemian
What a refreshing exchange. We all learned something, had our own opinons, no one got slammed for being right or wrong and not one mention of "that application fluid" topic.
Let's do more of these!
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Funny story I have though. When Mac had thier power button on the keyboard, I spent more than an hour trying to figure out how to turn it on, my new boss was appalled.....it took about 2-3 days and I got the hang of it.