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Offline Conan The Librarian

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Have you given up on Windows?
« on: August 29, 2010, 07:29:43 AM »
After almost 30 years of using Microsoft based PC's I finally tried an Apple computer for my personal use. I got tired of all the Windows security patches and browser updates and virus scans interrupting my work. I find the Apple totally liberating. Now I understand why Apple manages to stay in business.

I think I'm done with Microsoft products forever. I have no use for Windows because of the hassles. I have no use for MS Office because of Google Docs and Apple iWork.

I never thought I would dump Microsoft but it has well and truly come to pass.

My objections to Apples in the past were based on price and compatibility with my work. Those factors have vanished. The Apples are still initially more expensive, but when total cost of the machine and the software are added up, there isn't a significant difference.

I have friends who have switched to Linux for similar reasons.

Have you switched from Windows? What is your story?
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Re: Have you given up on Windows?
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2010, 12:25:53 PM »
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I'm going Apple, I can get a Lepord not the newest system Snow Lepord, and do all I wan't to as far as email, burn and watch movies and CDs and what other little things that I do with a refurbed machine for less than $4oo dollars.

I am having to pull my battery and ram chips and discharge the system to get this thing to start pretty often. I have been through this too many times, sick of it. I have used the PC cleaner and other cookie and spyware cleaners and it just won't come back.

Just waiting until I find out exactly what I want. eddie
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Re: Have you given up on Windows?
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2010, 03:29:57 PM »
Windows Vista was enough to make me hate Microsoft.  What a POS.
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Re: Have you given up on Windows?
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2010, 04:54:54 PM »
30 30man you obviously didnt try windows millennium.
I always felt windows would throw out a p.o.s and let the public iron out the problems, then charge the public for the update.
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Re: Have you given up on Windows?
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2010, 05:48:54 AM »
Apple is just to expensive! If money were no object perhaps I would give it a try.
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Re: Have you given up on Windows?
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2010, 05:59:18 AM »
  You sure have that right 30-30man. Windows Vista SUCKS.
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Re: Have you given up on Windows?
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2010, 06:52:48 AM »
I have been running ubuntu linux for 2 1/2 years with absolutely no protection and no problems. You can download copies of linux and make trial runs on a windows machine before installing it and you can do it for FREE. There may be a few things you have to iron out at first but there is a lot of support for linux on the net if you need help with a problem. I highly recommend it to anyone.
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Re: Have you given up on Windows?
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2010, 08:15:32 AM »
 Bought the wife a new Mac for school, They said that was the way to go.
Cost way to much, programs are more expensive.
1 month out of warranty it took a crap. Got online found out it's a known
problem, bad power supply gone bad. Not a problem call Mac and yes they know about
it. Tough, buy a new one (350.00) then find somebody that will work on one.
Never again.
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Re: Have you given up on Windows?
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2010, 09:11:04 AM »
We are issued Mac laptops at work and I have a desk type PC with Windows at home. Out of 400+ Macs at work a few have crapped with bad hardrives or CD drives but really a very small percentage. Since I can take my Mac home I hardly ever touch my PC anymore. No where near the hassles concerning virus on the Mac as it is always an ongoing battle on the PC. That reason alone is enough for me to want the Mac plus they are just so much easier to use, at least to me.
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Re: Have you given up on Windows?
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2010, 10:54:54 AM »
I'd like to get some more info about why they seem more expensive to some folks. I thought initially that the windows and macs needed about the same hardware specs, like 4 gig of memory. That's not true. A 2 gig of ram mac is plenty fast compared to a 4 gig windows machine. Cost for a Macbook is about $900, which is pretty reasonable for a machine of that capability. I guess some software is more expensive or unavailable, but since I only do word processing, spreadsheet, internet, and a few other things that mac supports, I'm not losing anything. I found the software to be a lot less expensive than the comparable windows software, at least for what I do. 
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Re: Have you given up on Windows?
« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2010, 04:08:07 PM »
What an amazing turn around.  Just a few years ago, Apple was almost "out of business".  Now, they're the largest technology company in the us.

I bought an Iphone last week.
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Re: Have you given up on Windows?
« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2010, 04:52:12 PM »
Guys,
the guts in the Apple are the same stuff that goes into a Windows box.  Only the OS is different.  You all know you can run Windows on a Apple...right?  You can also run Apple OS on a PC.
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Re: Have you given up on Windows?
« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2010, 06:58:26 PM »
The holes in the operateing system is the problem. eddiegjr
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