Going from PC to Mac - What should I expect?

expect the Apple logo will glow!!!!!!!!!!

 

People severely overstate how much is needed to run vista. The month it came out, it ran on my 1.4Ghz turion 64 with 1gig ram and a go geforce 6100(64mb vram). I even had it on a battery saving mode where the cpu would run at 25% or 350mhz(both cores) and it would run fine will surfing the web and using word/power point. It also runs great on my new i7 desktop. And they say windows 7 is even faster. I think os x runs a little faster than vista though on my macbook.

 

I believe turion 64 is single core. :lol:

Vista, like Mac OSX, the GUI is accelerated by the video card. If you a very weak graphic card that you're running aero on, it'll feel slow. A computer that feel slow doesn't mean it's slow. E.g. When controlling my quadcore desktop computer, the remote destop will feel very slow, but when you do an video encoding test, it's probably faster than 99% of the laptops you can buy today.

 

All the Vista love on this thread is funny if you ask me. The OP said Windows has been a pain so all the PC people feel the need to defend the OS.

Yesterday I spent 2 hours installing updates so I could install Vista service pack 2 on my son's Lenovo. Windows update kept giving me errors on one update for power point but I eventually got it to work by tweaking settings. Finally I got the notification that SP2 was available and downloaded it. I nearly fell off my chair when the disclaimer opened up to say that SP2 included all previous Vista updates along with other tweaks. Why do I need to install all updates to be "up to date" before installing service pack 2 which includes the updates I just installed?

The biggest kicker was after installing SP2 Windows update informed me I had to install an old update again, the same one that gave me trouble earlier. Sorry guys but to me Vista stinks and every time I use my son's computer it makes me appreciate my Mac more and more.

 

Ha ha, look who's calling the kettle....?
Every time one of your PC people wants to dump their Windows life in the trash and then post a simple question about buying a Mac to replace their old aging Windows machine YOU are one of the first PC people to jump over to this forum and start trying to sway them away from the Mac. Nearly all of your posts are the same. You seem threatened like other PC fans that see one of their own switching from Windows to Mac.

Here's a thought, give people more credit for making their own decisions, they don't need you to straighten them out. If they want to leave Windows then you need to accept it. Is there something wrong with the Windows forum that draws over here so much? Obviously it's not much to talk about on your forum.

 

You can expect to use an OS that is more suited to 2009 than 2004. That's the biggest 'feeling' I got after switching (for work) from 10 years of windows to OS X a couple of years ago.

The smoothness of the OS, the lack of maintenance the OS needed (viruses, spyware,defragmentation), the ease of installing apps, spaces/stacks/exposes all feels like a modern operating system. Windows just felt dated compared to it. You can also expect more productivity on it. Spotlight it incredible now, so you can find ANY file in seconds on OS X. When I lose a file on windows I can usually expect a 10 minute search to find it.

 

Most people that I've met have the misconception that the learning curve may be too steep when switching from Windows to OS X. They think that just because it was built based on Unix, CLI is mandatory and dominant like in other Linux/Unix based OSes.

I beg to differ, as I find that OS X is extremely user friendly, provided the user is acclimated to the environment. Crashes may be less prone (depending on your experience with Windows, may be good, may be bad). It is definitely more responsive. Although OS X once crashed badly after a system update.

 

Be that as it may, I still would like to know why you think the registry and device manager need to be rid of?

And to the guy that had the update dilemma, did vista offer the solution of restarting the system in order to properly install the update? If so, that's the same error I got and a restart streamlined the entire process.

 

w7 is waaaaaaaaaaay faster than sluggish vista. it ran so poorly a few days after having installed my virtual machine. w7 rc runs great. i'm buying it when it gets released.. my mac goes it the upper 60's and lower 70 without smc fan control and default 2k and i'm perfectly happy with it.

 

I was a Windows user for decades and had Vista since launch so I know how updates work. I tried a restart as well as installing the problem update using the shut down method and using windows update. I ended up having to change settings to get it to install. But like I said after installing SP2 Windows update asked me to install the same update AGAIN. Never mind the fact that Vista forced me to install a bunch of updates before allowing me to install SP2 which included those same updates. Ease of use is not Windows' strong suit.