Bought my first mac ...

I've been a PC user for probably 10 years, mostly only because I was a gamer. A few weeks ago, thanks to the brutal reality of medical school and the realization that I'm no longer 12, I gave up gaming (aside from vintage games on the wii )

I must say, I love OSX! I bought a mac mini as I wanted to keep my foray into Macdom inexpensive in the event I hated it, but I like it. I had some brief exposure to macs in physics and astronomy labs in undergrad, but never enough time to enjoy them. Guess all that mac bashing was from ignorance.

I guess I'm a convert now. Just wondering if I should dump the Thinkpad and get a Macbook or macbook pro. (And if so, which?) I'm sure I *might* run across a program now and then I need windows for, but apparently you can dual boot.

 

Congrats, HouseDO! Really, so many Mac bashers have never actually used OS X. I know, it sounds unbelieveable , but I used to "avoid" Apple when I was looking for a notebook about a year back. I didn't bash it, but I did think it was overrated, along with iPods. Now I'm an Apple lover.

Check out the New Mac Owners section of the Mac Switcher's Guide, it may have answers to some questions you may have regarding your switch. And of course, the two links that I've been known to give out :

http://www.apple.com/support/switch101
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101

 

I really liked OSX, and I sorta miss my MBP (I loved the screen, hated the keyboard), but since I am taking various software development classes for school, it became a pain having to use bootcamp all the time.

OSX is a great OS though, once you get used to it, it really is better than windows. Just wish Apple would finally give in, and start using two button track pads.

 

I found that being a bit troublesome too, but luckily if you get VMWare's Fusion you could run the boot camp partition virtually on the Mac. It works very well, in my opinion.

That would be nice too. Unfortunately I don't see Apple treading too far into how things are done in the PC world. A memory card reader built-in to the MacBook's would be nice though.

 

I noticed some of the older G4 Power thingies are basically MBPs without the Intel CPU, as well as being almost $1k cheaper. Would these still support future versions of OSX and all the other mac software, or is newer mac software becoming "intel" only? $2k is a lot to spend on a laptop

 

intel is way better & some app. may reqiure them.
& without an intel CPU you can't run Windows natively so in other words powerPC is done over dead.

 

Y'know, I really don't know if I would actually like that...getting so used to double-finger-mouse button, I actually like the fact that I can click anywhere along the button and know I am doing a left-click, while at the same time I can double-finger + mouse button click anywhere on the trackpad and mouse button and I know I'm doing a right click.

So I guess, in this way I feel like I know for sure what I'm clicking, without looking at the trackpad buttons or having to feel around for the right click button.

 

I guess they could do something like the might mouse, where it does have a right click if you want it, or otherwise its just a single click mouse. Could be easily implemented in a trackpad. But yea I've gotten used to the two fingers click for right click for when i dont have a mouse. Although when i do have a mouse attached it really helps ^^;