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My cousin works for Apple and when he got his first mac he gave me a tour. I was very impressed. He convinced me that when I am ready for my next computer then a Mac would be a great way to go. I have been doing a lot of research lately and I really believe he is right.
I would love to hear from others who own or have owned a Mac to hear what your experiences have been, both positive and negative.
Here is what I can tell so far...
Macs are more expensive than PC's. There is no getting around that. Part of what you are paying for is the Apple name as well as pretty packaging.
Most programs will either run on a Mac or have similar programs for Mac that do the same thing. There ae some programs that just will not run or a Mac and have no mac alternative. For those programs, there are ways that you can run the PC program on your Mac, but they cost $ (namely buying a copy of Windows).
Macs just work. you do not have to spend time configuring and loading and figuring out anything. They do what they are supposed to do pretty intuitively and easily.
There is no need to worry about viruses with a Mac. That is not to say that that can't change in the future, but as of right now, there are no real viruses floating out there that will infect your Mac.
So tell me your experiences.
I would love to hear from others who own or have owned a Mac to hear what your experiences have been, both positive and negative.
Here is what I can tell so far...
Macs are more expensive than PC's. There is no getting around that. Part of what you are paying for is the Apple name as well as pretty packaging.
Most programs will either run on a Mac or have similar programs for Mac that do the same thing. There ae some programs that just will not run or a Mac and have no mac alternative. For those programs, there are ways that you can run the PC program on your Mac, but they cost $ (namely buying a copy of Windows).
Macs just work. you do not have to spend time configuring and loading and figuring out anything. They do what they are supposed to do pretty intuitively and easily.
There is no need to worry about viruses with a Mac. That is not to say that that can't change in the future, but as of right now, there are no real viruses floating out there that will infect your Mac.
So tell me your experiences.