Who has a iMac?

[UncleKyle]

I seriously think I'm gonna sell my laptop and buy a Mac. My only reasoning? I hate Windows with a passion, I don't play computer games anymore, I only use it for internet and school. Anyone think I'm crazy? Who hates or loves Macs? Just curious.....I've always been taught to hate them but I've been meeting more and more people who love them.

 

[RitaZ.]

All the computers we have ever owned have been Macs. We currently have an iBook and a Mac G4, no problems at all. Go for it, you won't be disappointed.

 

[Bunchkin]

Another Mac lover here!!!!
Go for it!!! Buy all the Macs you can afford!!!! I'm on our IBook right now!!
I would probably be on the IMac, but DH blew it up!!!! Operator error, NOT the computers fault!!!!

We too hate Windows!!!! Window haters UNITE!!!

 

[KrnB]

Another Mac user here...

I have a G4 450 dual processor, running OS X. I love my Mac - it's so much easier to use than any PC I've used before.

If you're using a laptop now, go for the iBook or the Titanium PowerBook (I would LOVE to have one of those!!!!)

 

[RoqueC]

Exactly how is it easier? Folder wise, or what?

 

[SPAGo 98]

macs suck.

 

[UncleKyle]

Mind if I ask why Spago? I'm seriously might get one but so far it's hard to find info anywhere on why exactly macs suck

 

[RoqueC]

I've heard too much good to say they "suck", but as of now, I prefer a PC to a Mac. That is ofcourse, until I find a reason to believe otherwise. I've been thinking of getting one. Oh, and I'm off for the night. Bye.

 

[SPAGo 98]

i don't like the mac os. i dont like the interface at all. also i hate their mice and keyboards (i know, picky picky but i can't stand them). i groan whenever i get stuck with a mac in a computer lab.

one good thing about macs is that they have pretty speakers (the harmon kardon ones) but they cost a pretty penny.

 

[WDW2002]

I miss my Mac. If I could have afforded it I would have bought a new one but....

 

[WebmasterAlex]

There are a couple of issues software is harder to come by and more expensive generally.
For someone in school, PC's rule in the business world. You may as well learn what you need to know once you get out.

 

[inky dinky doo]

I use both . . . PC because I have to for a certain portion of my work, but my true love is the Mac. I'm a graphic artist, and for that, the Mac is far superior. Plus, the folders and the operating system are so much easier to understand and use.

I'm writing this on a new G4 laptop, and I LOVE it!!

 

[KrnB]

It's true that some software is hard to come by for the Mac, but you can find just about anything you need online or in the software catalogs. Anything that I couldn't email to a PC user because of software issues I can save as a PDF - without having to spend hundreds of dollars on Adobe Acrobat.

The OS X version of MS Office is really good - it takes advantage of the Mac's superior screen quality.

The email client that comes with Office, Entourage, is a Outlook Express-type app with a lot of the elements of the full Outlook app. It's what I use for email, and I've been really happy with it.

For graphics, you'll never beat a Mac - I use Photoshop and Illustrator on a PC at work and a Mac here at home and there is definitely a difference

The Mac OS's interface is much more logical than a PC, it's just that many people have gotten so used to the Windows interface that they don't realize it. It also helps that each version of Windows brings them closer to the Mac OS.

As for the keyboard and mouse, well, my Apple Pro keyboard that came with my Mac has all the same keys in all the same places as my fiance's keyboard sitting next to mine. I do like having more than one mouse button, so I use the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer, with the two buttons, a scrolling wheel and forward/back buttons for IE.

 

[Pam]

Lifelong Mac user here. I have a G3, my two teens have an iMac. I am in the publishing business and you can't beat a Mac for that.
Pam

 

[musicfan]

I just bought an iMac.

Pros:

Speakers are great

Theoretically can run great graphics programs, superior to those available to PCs, but have not had the opportunity

Has not crashed yet, over a six month period, which is more than I can say for any of our previous PCs

Looks very cool

Cons:

I do not find the folder situation any easier. Macs USED to have superior folder management, but the current situation is just about as confusing at the PCs. I frequetly have to use the search function to find something, exactly like I did with the PCs. I guess computers are now so complex it's hard to keep it simple.

Macs are set up to interface with mac software, both internally AND remote. Like the e-mail. It has a cute icon in the "dock area" to make it easy to get your mail and find out when a new one comes in, but it's set up to go to the "Mac.com" mail site. Well, that site is unfortunately changing from a free site to one that costs $100 a year! Forget that! But I can't figure out how to make my mail icon connect to my new Yahoo address.

Mac computer support is not free. My husband continues to get free support from DELL, but I had to pay a couple of hundred dollars so I could get ongoing tech support from Mac that wasn't prohibitively expensive. Also, about a wee after I got my iMac, with OS X, an upgrade to OS X came out. Seriously, I mean the NEW OS X had only been out about a week! And now they have an UPGRADE! That you would have to PAY FOR!

When we bought our new printer to go with our iMac (Hewlett Packard PSC 750 printer/scanner/copier) even though we were told it would work with the Mac, it did not. The OSX operating system was so new, the drivers in the printer wouldn't work with the Mac. When we went to the HP site to download new drivers, they didn't have any that were fully compatible with the OSX, so our scanner still doesn't work right. Mac said they couldn't help us. HP said it's because Mac was keeping the OSX under wraps right up until the launching of the iMac, so they hadn't had time to get the drivers ready. Whatever.

The screen resolution on any of the new macs (G4, iMac, the various notebooks) is not as good as the Dell Inspiron notebook. For a graphics-oriented computer, I think this is pretty sad. We have the top of the line iMac (the $1700 one), so it's not like we got a bargain basement model.

Interfacing with stuff on the Internet is not as easy as with a PC. A lot of downloads are not mac compatible, and getting mail out of mac.com was a trial. I finally found out about mai2web.com as a go-between, but it's ridiculous that Mac doesn't make its mail site accessible to offsite PCs.

Mac software is pretty expensive.

So, all being said and done, I'm not sure if I would buy a Mac again. I love that it doesn't crash or give me the Blue Screen of Death like the PCs do, but there are a lot of little things that annoy me. I'll have to reserve judgement until we can save up enough money to buy a graphics program, and I'll see if it's worth it.

 

[UncleKyle]

Thanks for the info everyone!