Every regret getting mac, even for a moment?

[Flux Harmonic]

I regret a few things about switching to mac, but the benefits i gained far outweigh them.

I used to run an Athlon 2500+, at roughly 1.8 ghz with 512 mb or ram (the same clock speed as my powermac g5). Now, I kept a very tight ship. I did not install any antivirus or antispyware software at all, except for adaware because it doesn't run in the background. I learned that this was a good idea very early on because my computer was always outperforming my mom's computer (a significantly faster machine) because she had every anti-malware software ever know to man installed on her machine. I'm convinced it ate up so much ram and other system resources that it turned the box into a useless piece of crap. Not to mention all the gunk in the registry...*shudder*

So anyways, my PC ran smooth. But even with the way I treated it, it started to slow down every couple of months. I got into the habit of wiping it and reinstalling approximately every 3 months, just to keep it razor sharp. It never, ever crashed, but it did give me a lot of grief with LANs and whatnot. Something just wasn't jiving all the time with my network card, so that was a pain.

But then I started seeing the OS X desktop in my dreams, and I knew it was time to switch.

Since switching, I love almost everything about the mac. The user interface is stellar, automator is like a godsend (i'm prone to doing stupid s**t like batch add comments to my 10000 music files that would take forever on windows so I never bothered), spotlight blows my mind...the list goes on and on.

What i don't like, initially anyway, was the little quirks of the mac. If my computer was in mid-stall (ie a program is frozen, usually while trying to quit, but I can still get functionality out of other programs) I wasn't able to open the CD tray because it's software controlled. I also found that it didn't really like to come out of sleep sometimes, or even turn the monitors back on.

But with time, I learned around the mac's quirks. I almost feel like it has a personality - I know what to do to make it happy, but more importantly I know what NOT TO DO that would normally piss it off.

My PC was a machine. My mac is not.

All in all, I'm glad I made the switch.

 

[annk]

I got a 17" PB about 15 months ago and have never looked back. Absolutely no regrets.

 

[20rogersc]

Yes, when the latest rev iBook was launched as I had bought mine earlier, but I'm not that bothered.

::20ROGERSC::

 

[Cooknn]

I bought an ibook about three weeks ago after considering it for about a year and deciding to get it to learn another OS for work purposes...
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I was concerned about the speed of the ibooks as I have a Toshiba laptop P4 2.4 already and was told over and over again that because of the OS and the architecture the 1.5 G4 would be comparable in speed.

prophet621 Since I don't have an iBook I have no frame of reference to judge whether your problem is physical or perceived, but I do think you may have had your expectations a little too high, unfortunately. I have considered buying a 12" iBook recently, but not as my main machine - only as a big wireless PDA with OS X Very portable and small, and with the best OS available today. I would not expect it to keep up with a 2.4Ghz P4 regardless of what I read, and even with 1.5GB of memory I would expect it to work harder at what it does, but not to the extreme's that you mentioned.

What app's are taking several minutes to open? Regarding games - unfortunately you bought the wrong machine if you expect games to be playable on an iBook. The other issues you mentioned could be related to bad memory - and I believe the first 512MB is integrated. Maybe you just need to bite the bullet and send it to Apple to get it fixed

 

[beige matchbox]

i have some problems with tiger. actually i onely have two. the others, i found, were just fire fox. the one problem is lagy volume. i will raise or lower the volume from my keyboard and it will, about half the time, lag. were if i hit the volume up key 4 times, the volume will increase but seconds after i hit the key. the other is sound related as well. some times my ballance is leaning more to the left in system prefs. for no reason. and i gota go in the and put it back to middle. and no, its not a human eror.

The laggy volume is because on the portables macos shuts down the sound system if you don't use it for awhile, you can find lil apps that'll keep the system alive if you want just so you know it's a feature not a problem, and you can get rid of it

 

[Artful Dodger]

Yes, the only regret was the very first 15" flat pannel lcd iMac. It gave me some headaches at first but a new HDD was put in and it was fine from then on. Almost forgot this, my new printer (HP need I say more) at that time wouldn't work due to lack of drivers so I bought a Canon and haven't looked back since.

 

[gibbon]

unhappy with ibook

Bought my 14" iBook a couple of weeks ago after over a year of debate. Although some of the things in tiger are cool (widgets, spotlight) the whole package that I was hoping for is far from perfect. The machine gets very hot, hard drive is noisy and overactive, dead pixel on a screen that isn't that good anyway, not as fast as i was hoping for and that is not to mention lack of widescreen and dual layer dvd burner that you would get on a similar priced pc laptop. I hate iphoto (why on earth can't I decide how to organise my photos, or even browse those on an external HD without importing them, dammit!). I haven't had chance to try garage band yet and am hoping that it is going to tip the scales a bit more in apples favour.
Perhaps my expectations for the iBook were too high because just like a PC, it has its niggles and certainly doesn't "just work". I am beginning to wish I had got a sony vaio and that is exactly what I will recommend to my Dad who is soon going to be in the market for a laptop. Bottom line: iBook is OK but outclassed, OSX is good but not great and you still need to buy proper software to get anything done. Conclusion: not really worth the bother.
I really hope the ante is upped a bit with the intel macs. It really does seem that apple have concentrated on the ipod line to the detriment of the macs and that is a shame. There seems to be such brand loyalty from die hard mac users like those on this forum (and it is from reading these pages that I decided to take the plunge) that apple must have made pretty damn good machines in the past but i can't help but feel they may be throwing that down the pan in order to become a big shot in the media world with a sideline in mediocre quirky computers and that would be a shame. Especially if they run out of groundbreaking innovations - they pulled off a big one with the ipod but how often can they do that - and then they'll have lost everything.

Ah, that does feel a bit better.....

 

[dsharits]

NEVER!!

I am a happy Mac user for life!