utilware.com — Poke around the net for a while searching for information on what it?s like to switch to a Mac, and you?ll quickly get a face full of hyperbole, zealots, platform bigots, feature weenies, and naysayers - from both the Windows and Mac camps. But there are precious few places to get an honest word about what it?s like to switch...
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jeremy23Feb 28, 2007
Alan Pope has modified the article to apply to Ubuntu as well:<a class="user" href="http://popey.com/The_Truth_About_Switching">http://popey.com/The_Truth_About_Switching</a>
jeff303Feb 28, 2007
@etruscanAs a happy recent switcher, I mostly agree with your post. But in my view, spyware fits the definition of virus. It's some kind of executable code that plants itself on my system without my permission to serve its own purpose (although it may be relatively benign).
Closed AccountFeb 28, 2007
yea..Mac still sucks
cthellisFeb 28, 2007
** At home I have not once had a virus problem on my Windows boxes - right back to Win98 (the first Windows I owned). I think this threat is largely over-stated to home users. **Not really. As someone who services 80% home users and 20% business computers, what it really depends on is if someone is at ALL knowledgeable about things. If you possess the requisite minimum you can get through virus life without issue, but there are WAY too many people out there who auto-allow, click "yes" by nature and only THEN go "oops," and believe pop-up messages intrinsically. Also, if you have kids... there's a good chance you have viruses. (Kids means KaZaA/LimeWire, which means indiscriminate downloading, which means viruses and spyware.)It's not "largely overstated" at all, really, except to the levels they want to panic the general public. Bust most Digginauts won't think much of it, because we're a different type of user.The vast majority of home users, however, are hopeless. And most office workers.
cthellisFeb 28, 2007
It's supported right-clicking for ages; it's just they didn't ship with two button mice as standard until a few years ago.But, as previously mentioned, that's a rather silly reason to shrug off a particular purchase, since it just meant you'd buy/use the USB mouse you preferred.
davidlowFeb 28, 2007
I'm sick of all you *nix fanboys. I'm switching to the... to the... ahh.Screw you guys. I'm going home.
nandabanaotakunMar 1, 2007
Propitiatory, eh? Tell me more of this mysterious Apple hardware.
pablomacMar 5, 2007
That's weird. Every recent switcher I know has bought XP to run on their Mac, but regretted wasting the $ on XP, because they never bother with it any more.Also, Topher06:<a class="user" href="http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/">http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/</a>
jumpfreaksterJun 11, 2007
The GUI on a mac is just so pleasant and easy to learn in a few hours.<a class="user" href="http://www.advocaatede.nl">http://www.advocaatede.nl</a>