Agreed! Macs are fabulous. I used several over the years.
Linux also offers a welcome and secure change from Windoze and will run on either Mac or PC ... though I recommend leaving your lovely Mac just as it is, but perhaps ditching all versions of Windows for Linux.
Hoping your Mac brings happiness and good fortune!
Feel the fear and do it anyway! Most of Linux is "plug and play" ...
It was when I got my most recent Mac - after a long period on Windows machines - that I decided to put Linux on my PC laptop. It was so easy and I fell so in love with Linux that I had no hesitation in using the XP CD as a frisbee ... And I found I was using the Linux machine more than the Mac ...
But Macs certainly are excellent.
It's 7am here ... What time is it with you? You must be up pretty late ... ?
It's a little after 1 a.m. I'm a night person. I tried to fight it for a long time, but I don't have to anymore, being self employed. I work at night, sleep while the offspring are in school and get up in the early afternoon. I don't know why, but I'm more productive that way.
Glad you are feeling better. Great post. I love my iPhone, but don't like the keyboard on a Mac. Other than that, they are great. Still, I love my Dell XPS. Sweet machine--even with the freeze-ups. : )
June 2, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Ok, so after being sick for two weeks, and yes, I think it was the swine flu even though I had assumed that my body would have rejected something that trendy, we decided to use our tax refund to get me a decent laptop. I think I literally glow in the dark from a lack of sunlight at this point, and laptops are far less expensive now that I had remembered. They are actually so inexpensive that we got two.
One is a MacBook and the other is an HP Mini. The plan was for me to try one computer one day and the other computer the second day and then to decide which one I liked best and to claim it. So, the first day I tried the Mac. It was weird and confusing and the mouse made me so mad I actually threw it once. I still wasn't sure about it when I tried the HP the next day. That thing is about $200 and runs pretty much exactly like my HP desktop. It's got the same speed and the same amount of freezing, but it will run Firefox and it has a mouse with two buttons, so I figured that it was probably the way to go. So, the next day I used the HP and it started dawning on me- the Mac never once froze up when I tried it. I never had to wait minutes for something to load and I never felt like smashing it as I often do with my desktop and the HP Mini.
I tried the Mac again and actually figured out how to use what they call a mouse and how to navigate Safari, the Mac browser. It's actually an extremely good computer for a reasonable price. It doesn't freeze, it doesn't take forever to load anything, and it doesn't slow down over time. I had to reboot my desktop at least once a day to keep it running at a decent speed, and I never never once had to reboot my Mac to make it run better or faster. I don't have to worry about the virus software getting in the way of my stuff because there isn't any. Viruses aren't a big threat with Macs, apparently.
I always thought Mac people were pretentious and/or hipster gadget lovers, but, um, I'm afraid I may be a Mac person now. I've only had the thing for a week and I really have no wish to use anything else ever again. So here's my question- why haven't we been told how much better these suckers are? Why aren't Mac people proclaiming this stuff in the streets? With something like this on the market, PCs should have been edged out of the market years ago. Nice going, keeping it all to yourselves, Mac people. You can only keep your secret so long before the world finds out. Be afraid.
"I'm a Mac, Apparently"
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Agreed! Macs are fabulous. I used several over the years.
Linux also offers a welcome and secure change from Windoze and will run on either Mac or PC ... though I recommend leaving your lovely Mac just as it is, but perhaps ditching all versions of Windows for Linux.
Hoping your Mac brings happiness and good fortune!
Bestest.
May 26, 2009 at 10:52 PM
No Windows?! That would be a lot of changes at once. I definitely need baby steps.
May 26, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Feel the fear and do it anyway! Most of Linux is "plug and play" ...
It was when I got my most recent Mac - after a long period on Windows machines - that I decided to put Linux on my PC laptop. It was so easy and I fell so in love with Linux that I had no hesitation in using the XP CD as a frisbee ... And I found I was using the Linux machine more than the Mac ...
But Macs certainly are excellent.
It's 7am here ... What time is it with you? You must be up pretty late ... ?
May 26, 2009 at 11:05 PM
It's a little after 1 a.m. I'm a night person. I tried to fight it for a long time, but I don't have to anymore, being self employed. I work at night, sleep while the offspring are in school and get up in the early afternoon. I don't know why, but I'm more productive that way.
May 26, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Glad you are feeling better. Great post. I love my iPhone, but don't like the keyboard on a Mac. Other than that, they are great. Still, I love my Dell XPS. Sweet machine--even with the freeze-ups. : )
June 2, 2009 at 9:18 PM