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TFunkadelic · Jul 19, 2005, 06:31 PM

So, my powerbook 15 incher arrived today, and I have to say I'm really enjoying OS X tiger. It truely is a superior operating system to Windows XP (what I've been using the last few years). I was a little worried about not having tool bar, but this expose deal works exceptionally well. I don't intend to pay PC's a visit anytime soon now.

osxisfun · Jul 19, 2005, 06:48 PM

also checkout versiontracker.com for free and shareware apps.

and getyourself Netnewswire for RSS feed.

and your powerbook came with 2 great apps from omni, omnigraffle and omnioutliner.

Congrats.

travisimo · Jul 19, 2005, 07:08 PM

i read this and laughed, i'm a bfa in broadcast and i've used pc's all my life, for graduation i asked for a laptop, just a laptop, nothing specific. a few days after my party a 17" powerbook arrives on my door. I didn't know what to do, i had always HATED macs, it was a learned behaviour, like racisim haha. So regaurdless of it being a mac or not it was a BIG ASS super nice laptop, so i tore it open and i also am now fully converted. I've been looking to sell my beast of a pc for a dual 2.5 g5 to run motion and shake better. everything that apple does just completly owns the pc equivelant. so i thought i would share my newly found love for apple.

btw, i've only been on this forum for a little while but it's awesome so thanks for having this great resource guys.

trav

Fusion · Jul 19, 2005, 07:19 PM

Originally Posted by travisimo

i read this and laughed, i'm a bfa in broadcast and i've used pc's all my life, for graduation i asked for a laptop, just a laptop, nothing specific. a few days after my party a 17" powerbook arrives on my door. I didn't know what to do, i had always HATED macs, it was a learned behaviour, like racisim haha. So regaurdless of it being a mac or not it was a BIG ASS super nice laptop, so i tore it open and i also am now fully converted. I've been looking to sell my beast of a pc for a dual 2.5 g5 to run motion and shake better. everything that apple does just completly owns the pc equivelant. so i thought i would share my newly found love for apple.

btw, i've only been on this forum for a little while but it's awesome so thanks for having this great resource guys.

trav

haha, good convert story. Someone must love you very much.

gdw-mac · Jul 19, 2005, 10:40 PM

I too have been a PC man all my life, but a couple of days ago a freind of mine offered to sell me a PowerBook g4 500Mhz and I thought what the hell. I LOVE it, I have 10.2.8 but will be upgradeing to X 10.4 soon. I wanna play with the widgets. Can anyone sugest any place to get free, shareware and even more software I saw the previouse link, but want more.

I could not belive how easy it was to learn how to use this machine, the last Mac that I touched was a Mac Classic

Boy was that a beast. My best freind is a Mac head, and we have always been at odds with the machines, I swore to him that I would NEVER get one, well I called him last night and told him, all I heard from the other end of the phone was (I belive) him pee'n on himself laughing.

I too am a new one here, and like it. Will be back more and more.

George

osxisfun · Jul 19, 2005, 10:51 PM

macupdate.com

congrats!

jaydon34 · Jul 19, 2005, 10:52 PM

yes macs are your friends. Cant wait to see an ibook with an intel processor. Thats when apple begins to take over the market. It will be a dual-booting monster. And I will be the first on line.

powerbook911 · Jul 19, 2005, 11:13 PM

Yes, finding the Mac world is a positive indeed.

Today, marks one year, since my return to the Mac world. The first Mac I ever bought, arrived at my door, one year ago this morning. It was an iBook G4 that i ordered from Apple.com, shortly after the 100 million song promotion. I had hoped to win the Powerbook, when I didn't, I wanted a Mac so bad, I bought the iBook.

I thought I might still use my PC about 50 percent of the time, but I found myself using the iBook about 95 percent of the time. In January, only six or seven months after buying the iBook, I sold the iBook, and bought the newest 12-inch Powerbook. It was a good upgrade! Furthermore, I now had fantastic output options, so I ordered a cinema display the next week, and that really put me over the top. I love computing experience now. It is so much fun, and my computing experience had not been this much fun, since the first computer I had in my home, a Mac I borrowed, during the middle 90s. However, after the owner returned the fall of that year, I went out and bought a PC because the salesman on the electronic store floor told me Macs sucked, and I didn't know much at the time. I'm finally back in the Macintosh world, where I started, and it is very good indeed. One year I've been back, and it has been a great year, with several iPods as well! Not only do I look forward to using my computer, reading about Apple news, but I also love how productive I am, with the Mac.

teney7 · Jul 20, 2005, 12:19 AM

Yeah... I totally agree.... I got my new 12'' PB today and I don't know how I got along with Windows for so long... goodbye, PCs!

Alezone · Jul 20, 2005, 12:21 AM

^^^ The kind of Passion™ you will never find in the PC world.

kymacman · Jul 20, 2005, 07:45 PM

Same here. I returned to Mac with the purchase of my 15" PB in February. Although it hasn't been perfect (logic board failure repaired under warranty) I am nonetheless pleased beyond all expectations. Prior to that, I had been using Windows XP for several years. Love OS 10.4.2 and won't go back to WXP unless I have to.

TFunkadelic · Jul 20, 2005, 10:31 PM

just how long does it take for the logic board to fail? aka how long till I can feel like I'm in the clear?

kymacman · Jul 21, 2005, 07:18 AM

Originally Posted by TFunkadelic

just how long does it take for the logic board to fail? aka how long till I can feel like I'm in the clear?

Mine went out 4 months after purchase.

Steve

El Maestro · Jul 21, 2005, 12:24 PM

I'm almost at six months since my switch to a 17" 1.67 PB.

I LOVE it. I added another gig of RAM and my system is now very fast. I'll never, ever, go back to Windows. I even convinced my new employer to buy me a 20" iMac!

typerlover · Jul 21, 2005, 01:05 PM

I had a 12" PB that I rarely used. Spent most of my time on my built pc with 2005fpw dell monitor. Then I sold the 12" and got a 15" and now really can enjoy using the OS finally having some screen room. I'm switched as well.

JoshuaZ · Jul 22, 2005, 01:16 AM

Widgets are super fun. A lot of smart people are making very fun and handy widgets.