School me on Macs

kaiser715

kaiser715

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I am winding down my tech support business (started 1983-ish), and thinking of going to Mac for my personal stuff and forgetting all the windows crap I ever knew. I do a lot of photography, mostly use lightroom and PS. I've just had a passing acquaintance with Macs over the years...maybe sit in front of once every few months or so.

Thinking of a 15.4" Macbook Pro.

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Tired of the PC world...tired of Microsoft's crapware. Spent all of today poking around in MS 10 learning the ins and outs of it. Most of the folks I interact with, classes/seminars/etc are using Macs (photography).
 
I use a macbook air at work and a 13" retina pro at home. I would never switch back after getting used to the mac after a month or so. I have a VM of windows for when I need windows which is rare.
 
A lot of my buddies that are old-school Unix fans made the switch once OSX came out basically sitting on top of it.
 
Having all Apple devices is the bomb diggity. Mac book pro, iphone5, and Apple TV make them all interactive which is great to have. But I have never had a single complaint about my mac book pro when I got it in 2011 for freshman year of college. Tons of memory and adding ram is a breeze if you need it.

I don't think I will ever buy a pc laptop after this. I have seen people go through pc laptops every 3 or four years. Mine hasn't slowed down a single bit.

My only advice is to spend the extra money on the wireless mouse that you can get. Besides that it won't take to long to fall in love with. Do not sign up for the icloud bullchit. It is uber annoying and won't hold much memory. Also if you buy an external hard drive make sure it is for mac. Windows external hard drives operate on a different system.
 
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Wife has a 2011 MacBook pro and we had to replace the motherboard in 2012. It's been fine otherwise, but I have a 2002 PC that still runs fine too. I was pretty pissed to spend $2000 on a computer and then another $400 a year later. I find I can use a Windows computer much faster because of a shortcut keys and commands. Mac people always brag about the stuff they can do with the fancy mouse, but I've been doing it for years with the keyboard on my PC and don't have to take my eyes or hands off the computer.
 
You can just buy a regular "Windows" external hard drive and reformat it. Only takes a minute. That "made for Macs" shit is a scam for people that don't know any better.

Macs are basically luxury computers. It's a status symbol, like Yeti coolers. You're telling other people around you, "look, I have enough expendable money that I spent twice as much on a computer as I absolutely needed to spend".

As popular as macs are today, if you use a computer for work - real work - you still need Windows. If you can't handle windows, or you have a bad habit of letting your computer get clogged up with adware from visiting sketchy websites, then you can pick a flavor of *nix and install it on any old computer. Or you can buy a cheap tablet or Chromebook if you're just browsing the internet.

The biggest bitch about the Macs -- go buy a new MacBook, then go buy a pile of fucking adapters so that you can actually attach useful things to them. If you're using your computer for photography, then you want to be able to connect an external USB drive to it, you want to be able to attach an external monitor, and you want to be able to plug SD cards into it. No dice with the Mac. Got to buy a bunch of splitters and adapters to run all that stuff off the one, proprietary, Apple connector on the side of the machine.
 
shawn said:
The biggest bitch about the Macs -- go buy a new MacBook, then go buy a pile of fucking adapters so that you can actually attach useful things to them. If you're using your computer for photography, then you want to be able to connect an external USB drive to it, you want to be able to attach an external monitor, and you want to be able to plug SD cards into it. No dice with the Mac. Got to buy a bunch of splitters and adapters to run all that stuff off the one, proprietary, Apple connector on the side of the machine.
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Huh?

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TARider said:
Ah, I see. You weren't talking about the air or pro, just the Mac.
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Yes. You get the choice between paying $2000 for a laptop that has a few usable ports, or $1000 for a laptop that has no such ports, and buying $200 in adapters.
 
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