Does anyone regret buying a Mac

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Just had to spend $150 to get a virus removed from a PC (and I had McAfee firewall and anti-virus). Thinking about getting a Mac. I realize there is a price premium, but aside from knowing you have to pay more. Is there anyone who was not satisfied with their Mac?

Also as an aside, I am debating between a MacBook Pro and (Mac Desktop + a new Ipod Touch). I really don’t need the portability for anything by internet when I travel and supposedly the touch can do internet when Wifi is available. The desktop (with a real size monitor) and the Ipod combined is less than the Pro (the cheap laptop has too small a screen for my main computer).

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Mac’s don’t get viruses?

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get the mac. Had an apple of one kind or another for over 20 years…no virus of anykind. especially on the new Macs…the OS is based on a Unix kernel -the most secure and virus free OS out there. Do not use MS Outlook or IE and it will cut down even further on your virus susceptibility. Firefox or Chrome for a bowser and Thunderbird for mail on a mac is the way to go if you don’t want to use mac mail or safari.

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2+ years of daily use, no antivirus software, not a single virus or problem of any variety.

Never met a soul who regretted switching to mac.

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Mac’s don’t get viruses?
Nope - No need for anti-virus software which grinds PC’s to a halt.

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In theory, they do. In reality, no one cared enough to code a virus for them.

Typed from an iBook

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get the mac. Had an apple of one kind or another for over 20 years…no virus of anykind. especially on the new Macs…the OS is based on a Unix kernel -the most secure and virus free OS out there. Do not use MS Outlook or IE and it will cut down even further on your virus susceptibility. Firefox or Chrome for a bowser and Thunderbird for mail on a mac is the way to go if you don’t want to use mac mail or safari.
great point - If you don’t want a Mac to grind to a halt like PCs do don’t run the same software as is used on PCs

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I think Mac’s biggest selling point is the Apple Store Genius Bars which are far superior to talking to someone in India when you have a problem with your computer. I have the first version of the Macbook Air, which has had some issues, but being able to make an appointment and explain the problems in person is far better than being bumped around from call center to call center (something I had far too much experience with on my old HP laptop).

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Keep in mind we have only had ours for 2 weeks, but run from the Macs…My wife has been begging me for years because she is a photographer and all photographers have a Mac. So I gave in and paid well over $1,000 more than a similar Brand X PC. I have never been so frustrated in my life. Multiple steps for things that would take 2 clicks with a mouse with Windows.

I don’t get the whole Mac thing…

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I don’t get the whole Mac thing…

Obviously. :wink:

Multiple steps for things that would take 2 clicks with a mouse with Windows.

I’ve never heard anything but the opposite said of the transition (including my own). What kind of functions are you referring to, specifically?

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I am an architect. I have 10 PC’s and 4 Macs in my office. We love the Macs for graphics and photography uses. Whoever said it takes twice as many steps to do something on a Mac is not being honest.

For my personal use, I love the Mac, have a MacBook Pro in my briefcase and a Mac Pro tower at home. If only Autodesk would port AutoCAD to Mac we would be 100% Mac in the office.

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One thing I found about a Mac is it takes some effort to set it up to work the way you like because they are so customizable. I have a 4 button Mac mouse and everything is so quick and natural to do. Out of the box it wasn’t that easy.

My 16 year old taught me how to start using the Mac.

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Another supporter of switching to Macs here. I haven’t heard anyone regretting buying a Mac either.

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I have never been so frustrated in my life. Multiple steps for things that would take 2 clicks with a mouse with Windows.

I don’t get the whole Mac thing…

“The whole Mac thing” can be a difficult adjustment for longtime Windows users, and the more of a “power user” on Windows an individual is/was, the harder the adjustment tends to be. For people who’ve never used a PC much, or who only used them for really basic stuff the Mac interface is very intuitive. For people who have used Windows and are accustomed to thinking along Microsoft’s model, it is a real change.

Mac’s aren’t “better” per se, and they aren’t easier for everyone. But for most people the switch (or initial learning curve) is relatively quick, easy and painless. I recommend Mac to lots of people, though because I rarely use one myself I’m fairly slow and clumsy with one.

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I was trying to be a little bit funny…we have had the Mac for 2 weeks…but when you have been using a PC for 20 years there is an adjustment, and we are going thru major growing pains.

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I’ve been using a pc’s since I got my first one about 96 or so. I gave up on using anti-virus software about 3 years ago and haven’t had a virus. The best anti-virus software is between your ears.

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No regrets.
Never looked back.
When my daughter (then age 12) got her first one she pulled it out of the box and set the whole thing up - including wireless - on her own.
Check out prices on http://www.expercom.com/
Mac prices are pretty much set by Apple, but Expercom throws in additional hardware/enhancements.

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I’ll avoid the regret by never buying one.
In the early days when dos was dying, there was win 3.1, but OS/2 made me very pc happy. Also used some real computers in my day, you know, the ones that needed a room. Then I switched jobs to a place that was all Mac, with powerPC guts. I was given an absolute state of the art unit, best one in production, brand new and all the fanboys gathered around my desk when it showed up. The company was huge and had full mac support.

The only thing I liked was that I got simpsons icons for all my folders. Other than that, it was the worst desktop computing experience of my life, up to that point, and since.

It crashed more than daily.
It showed a very hilarious cartoon of a bomb when it did. Oh boy that made me laugh everytime, those quirky apple os programmers, those sons o’guns knew how to make everything okay with their wit and foolishness!

When I said to colleagues “hey, I gotta crunch some numbers in some FFT convolutions, which c compiler do we use for this mac thing?” The response was “Oh, we never program the macs, you’ll have to get a pc or a unix box”. I responded: “what mac for, then?” answer: “Email and documents. Oh and we have a separate printer network for the macs”.

I said angrily “…and simpsons icons, don’t forget. Macs are so cool. Can I get that pc or unix, then, so I can do some useful work? I promise to write you an email using my mac when I’m done, even though unix has that sorta figured too.”

I was the happiest guy when the company decided to ditch all Macs when Win 95 was released. The fanboys cried. I laughed.

Today I see no changes except 1) HUGE Apple marketing campaigns (they have to be among the biggest tech advertisers) and 2) success only AFTER they made the move to intel why?..to run windows apps, and windows itself.

A well-maintained pc is a really nice thing. I’m loving Vista 64bit with no trouble, and the Win 7 beta is very nice (typing from mine now). When that is worked out and RTM’d…oooh, very nice, great performance, lots of smart moves by MS in there. Lovin it.

Smelly

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We have PCs at work , sure if you need to do excel sheets and commercial data reports some of the older mac’s had issues.

The newer rigs have all the compatibility . Even our work still runs XP
as the vista is still too fritzy for gov. / aviation work .

When you don’t have, a "GO TO I. T. GUY " Macs shine as they are more intuitive you don’t need a book . Their help pages and forum solve most problems in minutes if needed .

For home use , light years better .

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In theory, they do. In reality, no one cared enough to code a virus for them.

Typed from an iBook

I did a google search and found quite a few virus alerts on for the Mac’s. Apperantly someone cares enough to create a few viruses.