Marty Mar
06-25-2009, 09:55 AM
i never understood the mac/apple/OSX obsession. my friends are for the most part graphic designers and general computer nerds. the graphic designing side of my friends have been running macs from day one. but when my "general computer nerd" friends all switched over to macs i was a little blown away. i eventually paid it no mind.
after the launch of the first iphone, i was already with at&t and started playing with it when i was in the store. i kept thinking "this is cool, but its not doing anything my htc 8525 isn't doing. it just looks really cool". well after going through 3 micro-usb to 3.5mm adapters for my htc phone (and word of a 3g iphone) i thought i'd take the plung. (for years and years my phone has been more of a music player anyways, it makes sense).
i get the iphone 3g and love it. within weeks i realize that i was jumping through hoops to do ANYTHING on my htc phone (and realized it did do something my htc phone didn't do... WORK.. ALL THE TIME). all my friends started telling me THATS how macs are compared to windows pcs. so i start looking into them.
a couple of months ago i picked up a 17inch macbook pro (out of box at best buy for $1500 :tounge: ). i was assuming there would be some crazy learning curve. but the only learning curve was UNLEARNING WINDOWS lol. once i realized using Finder and Spotlight will get me anything i want... i was pretty much a power user. they are pathetically easy to use and astronomically more stable and generally "faster" than any pc i ever used.
before i know it, i've got a time machine, an airport extreme, a couple of airport express' (and have itunes running out of every sound system in my home), and i'm still using music production software via windows and vmware fusion (the real joke here is that xp runs better on a macbook pro WITHIN OSX, than it ever did on a dedicated machine!!!).
i'm starting to feel like i can only trust the apple name (or apple endorsed) products. all the apple/mac products i have are rock solid stable. and you just plug them in and they work. it just seems smart to pay more for stability and ease of use if "computing" is important to you. lol, just streaming itunes through separate stereo systems and using the "remote" app on the iphone to control everything is amazing and worth the price of an airport express!!
is this normal?
did you have an experience like this? if so, elaborate please. i'd love to hear it.
after the launch of the first iphone, i was already with at&t and started playing with it when i was in the store. i kept thinking "this is cool, but its not doing anything my htc 8525 isn't doing. it just looks really cool". well after going through 3 micro-usb to 3.5mm adapters for my htc phone (and word of a 3g iphone) i thought i'd take the plung. (for years and years my phone has been more of a music player anyways, it makes sense).
i get the iphone 3g and love it. within weeks i realize that i was jumping through hoops to do ANYTHING on my htc phone (and realized it did do something my htc phone didn't do... WORK.. ALL THE TIME). all my friends started telling me THATS how macs are compared to windows pcs. so i start looking into them.
a couple of months ago i picked up a 17inch macbook pro (out of box at best buy for $1500 :tounge: ). i was assuming there would be some crazy learning curve. but the only learning curve was UNLEARNING WINDOWS lol. once i realized using Finder and Spotlight will get me anything i want... i was pretty much a power user. they are pathetically easy to use and astronomically more stable and generally "faster" than any pc i ever used.
before i know it, i've got a time machine, an airport extreme, a couple of airport express' (and have itunes running out of every sound system in my home), and i'm still using music production software via windows and vmware fusion (the real joke here is that xp runs better on a macbook pro WITHIN OSX, than it ever did on a dedicated machine!!!).
i'm starting to feel like i can only trust the apple name (or apple endorsed) products. all the apple/mac products i have are rock solid stable. and you just plug them in and they work. it just seems smart to pay more for stability and ease of use if "computing" is important to you. lol, just streaming itunes through separate stereo systems and using the "remote" app on the iphone to control everything is amazing and worth the price of an airport express!!
is this normal?
did you have an experience like this? if so, elaborate please. i'd love to hear it.