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PC Guy tells wife not to get Macbook
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Ha ha ha, you guys are really funny.
I WILL buy the Mac. I never said I wasn't getting it. It just makes it harder on us both when she is told a whole lot of crap.
The PC guy told her quote, "it is really hard to get software for the Mac."
What? this guy is obviously an idiot. There is plenty of software. He failed to tell her you could run Windows on the Mac if you have a program that you couldn't live without (we don't BTW). That there are tons and tons of different software available for the Mac.
Also we still have the desktop PC we bought about 1 1/2 years ago with XP on it.
I will buy XP to put on the new Mac with VM Ware. I do have a question though. If I buy XP and VMWare, can I still use XP in BootCamp (Leopard) with the same version of XP?
I WILL buy the Mac. I never said I wasn't getting it. It just makes it harder on us both when she is told a whole lot of crap.
The PC guy told her quote, "it is really hard to get software for the Mac."
What? this guy is obviously an idiot. There is plenty of software. He failed to tell her you could run Windows on the Mac if you have a program that you couldn't live without (we don't BTW). That there are tons and tons of different software available for the Mac.
Also we still have the desktop PC we bought about 1 1/2 years ago with XP on it.
I will buy XP to put on the new Mac with VM Ware. I do have a question though. If I buy XP and VMWare, can I still use XP in BootCamp (Leopard) with the same version of XP?
In defense of ignorant PC Techs, let me tell you what some people believe.
When I was working at an Elementary School, all the computers were iMacs with OS 8 or 9. Those computers were slow and crashed often.
Then Apple disappeared for a while and came back with OS X, etc.
But some people still have that bad impression from the early iMac old Mac OS days.
I used to be that way until 2004/2005 when I saw Steve Jobs present and I researched OS X.
Don't hate PC Techs, just enlighten them.
When I was working at an Elementary School, all the computers were iMacs with OS 8 or 9. Those computers were slow and crashed often.
Then Apple disappeared for a while and came back with OS X, etc.
But some people still have that bad impression from the early iMac old Mac OS days.
I used to be that way until 2004/2005 when I saw Steve Jobs present and I researched OS X.
Don't hate PC Techs, just enlighten them.
and the bedroom
We have two lady moderators here at MR, you know. If you catch my drift...
So true. So hard to get Apple software. We really have to accept that we are just the next Amiga User's Group waiting to happen.
Whoa!
WHOA there people.... can we leave the poor "peecee" techs out as a group... please don't stereotype, it's wrong. I am a Network Administrator with multiple microsoft certifications. This is what I do at work.... at home, I use my MBP, unfortunately there aren't very many corporate Apple networks. So please, stop bashing us "innocents".
WHOA there people.... can we leave the poor "peecee" techs out as a group... please don't stereotype, it's wrong. I am a Network Administrator with multiple microsoft certifications. This is what I do at work.... at home, I use my MBP, unfortunately there aren't very many corporate Apple networks. So please, stop bashing us "innocents".
To answer your question, yes you can use your bootcamp partition in VMWare, but honestly, there really isn't a need in my opinion. I had bootcamp for a while (for games), but in the end I blew it away and went strictly VMWare, which in all honesty I rarely use that, unless I need to use office (hopefully that will change when we have "native" office on the mac).
I was a solid pc guy since '93. Bought my first one custom built, then built my own from then on. Went through all the crap with them year in and year out. Finally had enough. I told my wife, "I'm buying us both iMacs and getting rid of the pc's". She was sceptical, and scared. I had absolutely no idea how to use one, I'd never even sat down at one before. She had used one a little in school. I just knew I'd had it with Windows. For good. I don't even want it loaded on my iMac. I bought them, fired them up... and whammo! We're both in love! It's like it was the day we got our first pc, only a hundred times better. She absolutely loves hers, and I mine. We had to buy Office so she had compatibility with documents at work, but other than that... no MS/Windows stuff.
Many IT guys hate Macs. Windows equals job security. Usually you need four to ten times more IT people to support Windows than to support Macs. But here is a quote from a more enlightened IT guy: "At work, I spend all time with Windows. I bought my wife a Macintosh, so that I have time to play with my Linux box"
Or you can tell her this: Which group knows most about computers? Not the IT guys. It's the software developers. And guess what software developers buy for their own use at home? Macs. Guess what software developers recommend to everyone because they hate having to fix everyone's computers? Macs.
PC arguments always tend to be more about numbers than actual use of the machine.
Why bother with a 1 inch thick Macbook Pro when you can have a 2 inches DELL. Twice the number of inches for a fraction of the price!
Why bother with a 1 inch thick Macbook Pro when you can have a 2 inches DELL. Twice the number of inches for a fraction of the price!
HAHA!!!!
seriously sve yoursef the hassle, once she comes around you will both be fighting ver the macbook. Best to get yourself one and promise she can get whatever she wants when its time lol by then whe will want a mac as well, and you get all the bragging rights!!! and 2 macs
sounds pretty sweet to me !!! lol
Windows usage is perpetuated by people that rely on fixing it's crappiness as a career path.
That has to be the best quote I've read on this forum ever...
"Oh, so you say windows is better for this or that?
Did I mention my Mac can run both OS X and windows?"
I think that is possibly the single best argument; Getting a Mac with an Intel chip is like getting two computers in one - No other system can (legally) do what you can with bootcamp/vmware/parallels on a Mac.
i don't get it.
if you want a mac..then buy a mac..its your comp..
and yea..if you needed windows..just install windows..then you have both.
Hahaha, perfect way for me to jump in:
I was the first in my family to buy a Mac simply because Tiger blew me away and I was dead tired of fixing our Windows machines. Once my wife began using my PB because her Windows box was running unbearably slow and she wouldn't let me fix it, she began to want a Mac within about 2 weeks. Now she has a MB and loves it ... and I have my PB back
By the way, the same thing happened to my father and my mother. My father recently bought a 24" iMac, which he loves, because of me and my mother is slowly using his iMac more than her PC.
Well, lawyers are rarely efficient!
You're pretty right about this. OP, you need an authority figure (someone who is good with computers maybe?) to tell her that a Mac is a perfectly good idea. Otherwise, it's going to devolve into a "yes!" and "NO!" shouting match.
Seriously, who is the tech savvy person in this relationship?
If you're it, just buy it. My gf would never dare to tell me what tech stuff I should or shouldn't buy. That would be like us telling them which pan to buy.
I'm guessing that the wife isn't a tech savvy person, but that neither is the OP. I think that they're both on equal ground when it comes to computers. However, I don't understand why the OP and his wife don't have separate computers?
Who shares a computer in this day and age(especially students)?
It is a travesty you have not banned them, yet.
We have two lady moderators here at MR, you know. If you catch my drift...
many (certainly not all, or even most) IT people out there are more worried about gloating about how much they know about computers than actually being helpful.
I suspect he has never used a Mac for any length of time and was just trying to sound intelligent.
I suspect he has never used a Mac for any length of time and was just trying to sound intelligent.