Is it worth investing in a Mac?

PatrikL said

xstortionist said

PatrikL said
Windows 8, even with SSD and optimized system takes 2-3 min to launch properly.

If it takes 2-3 minutes to startup in windows 8 then you do not have your Bios properly setup. Especially with a dedicated Solid State HD Windows should start up much quicker then that.

I know, I’ve reconfigured my BIOS (since I wrote the post) and it’s a bit faster now. Still, not even close to OS X .

Yea, same here, windows 8 takes longer to start up then Mac. I had an issue where video card was causing issues with windows 8 startup, so it took like 10 minutes to startup, but I ended up changing some video card setting to PEG and it fixed the issue for me, but still cannot start up as quick as Mac.

Hello friends, this is my first post from my new iMac. I LOVE IT !

It was really weird and unconfortable at first, ditched the stupid mouse and gave it some time, and simply, everything just “clicks”. Got Coda, Photoshop, Firefox, Firebug (duh), set up my mail accounts, etc.

Thanks for all the input, Nikos

StevenGliebe said
...being reliable…

flashedge said

StevenGliebe said
...being reliable…

Nope. I’m sorry to disappoint you. Macs fail in the same way as PCs. My old Powerbook left me with Kernel Panics and a dead logic card after only 6 months of use. Thank god a guy bought it before he noticed the fault. At least they’re easy to be sold.

flashedge said

StevenGliebe said
...being reliable…

Nope. I’m sorry to disappoint you. Macs fail in the same way as PCs. My old Powerbook left me with Kernel Panics and a dead logic card after only 6 months of use. Thank god a guy bought it before he noticed the fault. At least they’re easy to be sold.

It’s all about the components. If the components malfunction it don’t matter what OS you have. It might have been something wrong with the one you got though, sadly enough that happens for everyone once in a while. With my old MacBook (the black one) I lost the HDD so had to replace it during the first 5 months. But that’s a rare occasion from all manufacturers and it has to do with the HDD manufacturer, in that case Intel, who happend to give me a new one for free.

Trick is to contact the manufacturer itself for the hardware and if their warranty for the component fails, you’ll get a new one, either free or for a reduced price. Intel even asked me if I needed any help with installing my new HDD , which I declined as I know how to do myself.

Just make sure to contact the manufacturer for the component in question in which country you reside in. I live in Sweden so I contacted Intel’s swedish office and got extraordinary help.

routsounmanman said
Hello friends, this is my first post from my new iMac. I LOVE IT !

It was really weird and unconfortable at first, ditched the stupid mouse and gave it some time, and simply, everything just “clicks”. Got Coda, Photoshop, Firefox, Firebug (duh), set up my mail accounts, etc.

Thanks for all the input, Nikos

Glad you like it so far Ping me a message if you need any help with anything.

routsounmanman said
ditched the stupid mouse and gave it some time

mouse acceleration is os X is something very wierd for switchers from windows after couple of days you are getting used to it and it seems comfortable. but then you take mouse on windows machine and it like “nah, in windows it is better”

Dream-Theme said

routsounmanman said
ditched the stupid mouse and gave it some time

mouse acceleration is os X is something very wierd for switchers from windows after couple of days you are getting used to it and it seems comfortable. but then you take mouse on windows machine and it like “nah, in windows it is better”

Hahaha, indeed. And I’m simply the worst person when it comes to mice. I have more than 10 mice, including some from Razer, Logitech, etc and none fits my style perfectly.

When I first used the Magic mouse, I was “wtf, am I supposed to use this?”. Instantly plugged in my trusty Intellimouse

routsounmanman said

Dream-Theme said

routsounmanman said
ditched the stupid mouse and gave it some time

mouse acceleration is os X is something very wierd for switchers from windows after couple of days you are getting used to it and it seems comfortable. but then you take mouse on windows machine and it like “nah, in windows it is better”

Hahaha, indeed. And I’m simply the worst person when it comes to mice. I have more than 10 mice, including some from Razer, Logitech, etc and none fits my style perfectly.

When I first used the Magic mouse, I was “wtf, am I supposed to use this?”. Instantly plugged in my trusty Intellimouse

I’m on my good-old logitech M705

btw, my friend told me, that Magic mouse requires fresh batteries every week! (I’ve changed batteries a year and a half ago in my Logitech)

flashedge said
My old Powerbook left me with Kernel Panics and a dead logic card after only 6 months of use.

Wouldn’t the store take it back? Here in Holland there’s consumer protection which basically says that products that break before their reasonable live expectancy should be replaced by the store – for a laptop, 6 months is definitely within that margin.

I am using my new iMac 27 since last four months and the experience is much better than windows. Quick start, big screen, cool user experience, great configuration, simple settings & features, awesome mouse, nice small keyboard etc… and not at all messy desks like windows where there are so many cables that sometimes we get confused . So, for me i am very much satisfied & happy in investing into iMac