This night is like the other night, just dark and bored. But suddenly, I have an idea to write this article that contains my reasons why I am very like with Mac and want to migrate to Mac (from Windows series ehmmm....). I had been using PC for 17 years from MSDOS 5, MSDOS 6.22, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 95b (a lot people call it Windows 97), Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP and I am thinking to migrate to Windows Vista and I calculate it I need to pay approx. $700 (it's my calculation hehehehe) which are for $399 for Windows Vista Ultimate (huh that's very expensive for me) and $300 (or more) for upgrading my computer (I have to change everything from processor, memory, graphic card that DirectX 10 support) and that's price to "enjoy" Vista.
So, I am thinking to buy a new iMac for my wife because with $1000, I will get new monitor, harddrive, keyboard, mouse, memory, dvd drive, processor and the most important is new original operating system, MacOS X, because I had bought a Macbook and I start to like it.
But on other hand I still using my 'lovely' Windows XP for Visual Basic 2005, so in order to objectively, I write this article with my wife who using my Macbook too sometimes (hmmm so serious...:D ). And remember, this reasons made from comparing experiences using Windows for years and Macbook for 2 months. And no offense please hehehhe this is just our own opinion so you may have different opinion about this too.
And these are our reasons to migrate to Mac :
1. Easy Setup, when I bought Macbook I just come to store, choose it, pay it, go home, open a brown box, open white box, open laptop cover, press power button, fill languange, user name, time zone, and begin to work, that's it, it just takes 20 minutes to begin my works, image it if compare with when you buy a new PC and install it with Windows XP (no offense please .... hehehehe)
2. Heaven to a beginner, my wife is not a 'computer freaks' but surprisingly in 3 hours she is not ask me anything although for one question ! She just doing her work to import photo from digital camera to iPhoto.....
3. Make your room be more clean, when you put iMac on your desk maybe your friend will give you a question "Where the big box ?" (I has imagine it although I don't have it yet....)
4. Faster booting time, Mac just takes 1 minute or less from press power button to start my work, even if you're using a Mac laptop you will get amazing experience, just close your laptop lid and put it to your bag when you finished your work and if you want use it again just pull it from bag, open laptop and start work....
5. Better stability, huh this is my big deal when using PC, as you know that Windows is designed for vary configuration computer and Mac designed to their own hardware so Mac has great stability when it ran. I had been using my Macbook for almost 3 months and I never get it crash although for once ! Try compare it with Windows that crashed 3 times in one day....
6. Easy installation software, you just need open .dmg file and drag it to Application folder and you run it... and I still thinking to double click install.exe file.
7. Windows run on Mac, use third party software like VMWare, Parallels Desktop to emulate Windows on a Mac.
8. Safe from Viruses, Windows has 114,000 viruses and Mac ?
9. iDVD, this great software to authoring a DVD with your own content, photo, video and the others. And you can do it with very easy interface even for a beginners and it's free !
10. iMovie DVD, a great software to capture your handycam result and edit it with easy interface and it's free !
11. Garage Band, I just plug my MIDI cable one port to my keyboard and the other to Macbook through USB port and it's works and once again GarageBand has an easy intercafe.
12. MacOS X GUI, my wife is very like with MacOS X interface, it's more eye cathing and eye candy....
13. Spotlight, just type first character to make MacOS X begin to search your files and it's very fast.
14. Dashboard, it's very help me in all ways, you may using Oxford dictionary, calculator, follow the stock by real time, display your city weather by real time, and there's still have a lot useful widget to install.....
15. Smart Folders, you may save your search result and make it as folder, so if you move the file you don't need worry about it, MacOS X will handle it.
16. Automator, it makes our routine job be more easier. You can resize image, rename it and move it to a folder with one click.
17. Support PDF (Portable Document Format that provided by Adobe) natively, if I want exchange my report document to other work friends, usually I use the PDF document when I use PC I must buy additional software to creating PDF file, if you use Mac just click Print and choose PDF and it's done....
18. Great handling windows, press F9 to tile all opened programs, F10 to tile all opened documents in one programs, F11 to slide all open programs to side and show your desktop.
19. Remote Control, Apple has bundle a remote control for every iMac, Macbook, Macbook Pro. Use it to open Front Row for play movies, music and slideshow of your picture collections. And you can use it to control your Keynote's presentation too...
OK, may you add these list ? hehehe I am ensuring you have one..... please write it on comment....
What are my reasons to use (and want migrate) to Mac ?
Posted by EdSto | 1:08 AM | MacOS X, OS Migrate | 2 comments »
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You're a horrible writer. I'm a Mac user so I understand your point. But any PC user reading this will find you to be petty, obnoxious and incoherent.
Hi, thx for your 'compliment' for this article. And I don't propose to offense PC user, I just write my opinion about MacOS X, I still a PC user too because I am using Visual Basic with it.
On other hand I hope Microsoft keep to upgrad their product to be easier and innovatif. I look in Vista, Microsoft has give Vista the super fast search features (like Spotlight) and I think that's great... because Microsoft always to fix their weaknesses...
But if a lot people do not like this article, I will remove it because I don't want hurt anybody. But thanks for your attention, I'll be more carefull next time to write a article...