“My Switch to Apple [Mac OS X]. Creating a ‘switch’ post is starting to seem a bit cliche. Generally speaking, the overall tone of all “switchers” is a very positive one. When XP came out half a decade ago, I would have hoped reading all of these posts, they would all be negative. Now I can say, almost fanatically, I will never go back to a Windows PC and all of these switchers are right, it feels very nice. What entails is my background in computers, the road leading to the switch, and the time post-switch,” George Huff writes for Eleven3.
“I don’t know what it is about using these applications, or the operating system in general, that feels so right. I never knew this until I spent significant time in OSX, but it is much less rigid than Windows,” Huff writes. “Within OSX I feel like I am working laterally across many applications to accomplish whatever the task at hand may be. Whereas on Windows, it feels like everything is a vertical move. The multi-tasking isn’t as well thought out and intuitive in Windows. That’s not to say you couldn’t accomplish the same tasks, it just feels fluid and clean when doing it on a Mac.”
“My Mac feels pristine, my Windows work machine feels dirty,” Huff writes. “I do not expect a Windows user reading this to understand. It takes experience in OSX to really feel the difference. If this sounds like fanboy zealoutry, it’s not. I am curious to see Vista, I ordered a free beta 2 install disk today. I don’t hate Microsoft, I was let down.”
Huff writes, “It would take much more than an operating system to attract me back. I’ve become a fan of culture. And the Mac culture feels nice, I am happy here.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Welcome, George!
“Poor work”
sorry for the typo
For me the only bad experiences even remotely stemming from being a mac user is that it makes my forced windows usage at work all the more painful as I know what I’m missing. All the shortcuts, Exposé, spotlight, quicksilver and so on, I am constantly trying to invoke them at work before remembering that they’re not there.
Mac4lfe: “Cheap tool produce poore work..”
And poor spelling and/or typos….(you wrote that using a Windows PC, right?)
LOL.
So you check your mechanics tools to make sure the are the best before he works on your “porsche”?
double LOL.
Own Mac and PC,
From your typo, mAC, I can tell you used a Windows PC.
You cannot make that specific error on a Mac (you hit caps lock not shift).
You probably do not know how to type ¢ or • or ° on a PC or Mac.
Since it would take me a long time to find out how to type those caricatures on a PC and since my post has no spelling mistakes, you can tell I used a Mac.
BillyDude –
I often find myself looking for that seamless experience of my home Mac here at work. Not only Expose and Dashboard, but a host of other programs that make life easier.
For example: right now I am typing this on a (excuse my French here) Dell. Just a few minutes ago I had to wrestle through a bunch of programs and I thought to myself…”well Automater would take care of this in like a second or two…”
Then I had to create a flyer for my boss and thought…”well Pages has some killer templates that would work really well…”
This goes on each day.
And my company is ALWAYS worried about security, security, security. I keep on thinking…”well a Mac would solve all their problems.”
But I get laughed at for suggesting such things. It’s their loss.
Stupid bosses.
(in case Big Brother is watching…I mean “slightly misinformed bosses”)
Windows feels like a chore, with OSX I’m actually accomplishing things.
RE Own Mac and PC.
This poster has been outed as a venemous promoter of Windows at the expense of Mac. It is an attempt -often- at a subtle ‘I’m with you, but being balanced’ approach and is almost certainly someone connected in some way with Microsoft. At least that is my take.
Either way, I wish him “well”. He was losing before. Today he just looks pathetic. And tomorrow he probably won’t have a job.