Plenty of free software with way more functionality than Paint. Just because you don't know doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You might want to check out Macupdate.com or versiontracker.com
For example, Gimp.
http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Overview.html
Let me rephrase - Paint is included with Windows. Gimp and whatever else you can find on the internet is not. For every free Mac image editor there are countless more for Windows.
Samsungs typically makes low end crappy products with low initial cost but high operation costs. Look up reviews.
All reputable companies have easy to install drivers for OSX.
Actually, I've owned this printer for several years and have made many thousands of prints. It's only just looking like it's needing its third toner cartridge. I've had better value for money out of this unit than any other printer that I've used, and I've tried Canon, Epson and HP.
I've owned two Samsung televisions and both have been flawless. I am very impressed with everything Samsung do.
Actually more like 2-3 hours. Perhaps 2-3 weeks for those who do it the run about windows way.
It took me six months to be comfortable using my iBook every day. Of course within a few hours you'll know how to do a few things but that doesn't mean you can be more productive with your Mac in that time.
I have not seen the spinning beach ball for a long time.
Pretty much the only time you get it is when you have network shares connected and go off the network. With fully updated system, Finder will try to find the volumes with spinning beach ball for like 15 seconds and then give you a volume disconnect screen. However, you can still work on other apps so it's a non issue.
Perhaps someone screwed up his computer but don't know how to google, and can't seem to know how to have the Genius Bar to fix it (for free under warranty).
Genius bar huh? That would be the one that's two hours drive from me?
The last time I visited I took a faulty Time Capsule back to them. I printed the output from Console and took it to them and they did not have a clue what any of it meant and completely disregarded it.
I don't work with network drives (since I got rid of my Time Capsule, I'll never buy Apple's networking equipment ever again) but I see that beach ball several times a week. The worst offender is Safari, closely followed by iTunes and recently iPhoto has developed an unsolvable problem where it will crash every time I try to import photos from my iPhone's camera.
For what it's worth, a Mac is undeniably an American computer. You can set up other languages but software like iWork will never play ball with them. I want my documents to be spell checked in British English. I've done everything that I possibly can on my machine to get it to do this but it continually returns the spelling to "English" each time I create a new paragraph or open a new document. It's infuriating, not just because the interface has failed in its attempt to distinguish between the two languages.
Safari 4 beta paints a bleak picture for the future too. The search box takes you to Google.com and there is no way to customise it. Who knows whether they'll add that functionality.
The sample of the survey is not described in any way at all. It's simply "3115 consumers", which is basically like saying 3115 people. Unless they give more information on this the survey is not reliable.
Did the survey ask the people who saw their Macbooks discolour or crack for their opinion? Did they ask the people who have suffered data loss to a Time Machine drive? Did they ask the people who have seen their MacBook Pros graphics chip go up in smoke?
In any case, it's not surprising that the satisfaction is higher. You pay a
lot more for a Mac than a comparable machine from elsewhere. The question which people should be asking is whether the price of admission is worth it. I don't see any questions in this survey about value for money.
I could write a list as long as this relating to problems I've had with Windows too. I don't think either is superior and it just happens that right now I've landed up with a Mac. What I do know though is that people seem to be paying a LOT more (the OP mentions he spent
£2000 on a machine with a Core 2 Duo) for machines which do things differently to (but not necessarily better than) those which they are replacing.
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