Comments on: Why Buy a Mac?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:51:21 +0000

I just happened to have some time to kill at the mall and stopped in the local Apple Store (my first time in one). After playing with a Mac for a bit, I decided I kind of liked it. Over the next month or so I went back to the store a few times, talked to a few of my Mac owning friends, and eventually ordered a Macbook online.

About 3 months before I bought the Macbook, I had put together a custom PC (as I did for all my previous computers). I never had a problem with any of my computers until this one. For some reason it was never 100% bug free. When I bought the Macbook I pieced out the custom PC on eBay.

I don't really have a desire to go back to a PC at home. Of course I use one at work. Did I mention that I support Windows for a living? People at work are always amazed the Windows Tech guy is a Mac user.

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Tue, 27 May 2008 16:04:17 +0000

[...] Why Buy a Mac? I decided to buy my first Mac about two years ago. At the time, I knew nothing about the Macintosh, OS, or hardware. I was a PC guy. I guess I need to give a little background. I hold a Microsoft MCSA, and am a CHFI (Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator). I am a System Analyst for a fairly large hospital. All I knew about was Microsoft, and Active Directory. My home PC died, I was going to get a new one, and happened to walk by an Apple store. I walked in and started to poke around a bit and found that I kinda liked the interface. (It was different from anything else I had seen.) Then I figured I would talk to somebody, to find out why I should consider a Mac. I need to tell you that I am sort of hard-headed and don’t respond well to change. [...]

By: edwinv

edwinv — Sun, 25 May 2008 05:06:10 +0000

Both my roommates were Mac users and for the longest time they were trying to get me too switch. I was very hard headed and refused. Then Vista came out and thought if i was going to try a Mac, this would be the best time. Thank god I did. I have no regrets. Love my MBP and I am thinking of getting a mini to use as a media center.

By: nwistheone

nwistheone — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:28:37 +0000

I bought a MBP simply because I became sick of years and years of constant troubleshooting and upgrading. I'm tired of having to babysit my OS. I love OSX.

By: JDub

JDub — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:48:31 +0000

I was a hard-headed “PC guy” my whole life, until I was forced to use a Mac at work in 2005. It hated it at first, since things didn't work exactly the way I was used to. I quickly got used to it though, and when I got a newer model desktop Mac in 2006 I was sold!

My PC laptop at home was getting progressively slower and falling apart (the monitor was actually falling off) so last summer I bought a black MacBook. II *love it*. So small and FAST. Does everything I need and more. I'll never go back to a PC.

By: domster83

domster83 — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:45:54 +0000

For me, I was slowly drawn in by the iPod. I got a 3Gen 20GB ipod in 2002, and was running that with XP for a while, and I slowly started looking at the Mac's. After saving for about 6 months i indulged in my first Powerbook G4.
4 years later, I am now on a Macbook Pro and I still love the Mac OS. I can't ever imagine going back to Windows as a full time OS.
I love the fact that while it may sometimes appear simple (is that even a bad thing?) it actually has so much power behind it, and I can fire up the terminal and start running Perl apps, Ruby scripts, run any unix command I want. I can easily run a webserver, test my website locally, and so much more. Of course I didn't discover half this till I started reading and learning more about the OS. But I love it, and I even converted my girlfriend to a Macbook and now she's hooked too

By: Wardy Miller

Wardy Miller — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:01:09 +0000

Glad to see I am not the only one…

By: Dave Hodgkinson

Dave Hodgkinson — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:28:09 +0000

I was a Unixbeard for a long time having given up on Windows. Then in around 2003, a certain rock band's manager did exactly what has been described here: he showed me how easy it was to *do* stuff. Oh, and under the hood, I could carry on doing all the Apache, MySQL/Pg and Perl stuff I was used to doing.

Haven't looked back. I'm on my fourth laptop (a MacBook at the moment, good enough for my current usage) and when I separated, I made sure the ex and daughter were on Macs do I'd not be called on to do maintenance, re-installs, virus-sweeps and stuff.

Never confuse price with value.

The lack of pain over the years has more than repaid the extra money.

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links for 2008-05-21 | Bieber Labs — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:32:55 +0000

[...] Why Buy a Mac? “I hold a Microsoft MCSA, and am a CHFI (Computer H”acking Forensic Investigator). All I knew about was Microsoft, and Active Directory. My home PC died, I was going to get a new one, and happened to walk by an Apple store.” (tags: apple macintosh blog) [...]

By: Austin

Austin — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:38:31 +0000

Similar start, Network admin, one test away from my MCSA. Knew PCs really well. Decided to get into design. Used macs at school running os9 and found it to be worse than any pc i had used. Crashed all the time, ran slow, etc. Stuck with PC for a while.

Started my design business while running a pirated version of CS1. My version of photoshop was marked as invalid and I had to decide what to do. i had an old computer and needed to buy a $1200 software app. I started pricing things out according to my needs and found that I would end up spending another $1200 or so building a new machine, after getting all of the os and miscellaneous software. I had a friend who was using tiger and was raving about it so i decided to take a look. The imac had all of the featured that i needed, a few more that i wanted, and it seemed like a nice fresh start. I ordered my imac and bought another one 2 months later and then proceeded to buy a macbook the day they were announced. They haven't been glitch free by any means, but almost everything was fixed with a firmware upgrade, which i wish was the case with my pc laptop.

I wouldn't call myself a fanboy, but i like the way they work, i like the way they feel, and I like the way they look.