Does Apple have any kind of "OS test drive" for PC owners who are thinking about switching to mac?
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If you like Windows at all, you'll love the Mac OS as soon as you get used to the differences. Give it about three weeks and you'll never want to go back to Windows. \n\nMicrosoft Office is considered by many to be better on the Mac than the PC version. \n\nOut of the box, Mac's can print directly to PDF files and view them with Preview or use Adobe Reader, so Mac PDF support is better than on the PC.\n\nI'm not sure about SPSS, but if you do need to run Windows applications, you can boot into Windows on the new Intel Macs (Bootcamp) or run Windows from within OS X using Parallels.\n\nHere's a good place to go with Mac questions:\nhttp://forums.macosxhints.com/
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I've been a pc user for about 8 years now and just got myself a power book G4 with a 12" screen and mac os x that came with iLife06. I am really enjoying using both and still have a lot to learn with regards to mac os x. Maybe you could teach me how to do things on macs. Im really into programming so if you know anything about x code, apple scripts or any of that, I would really appreicate help on that.\n\nI know apple have all the developement stuff on there website but it seems to be spagethi junction with figuring it all out. Would be nice if there was a book on x code that started from very basics and went all the way through and covered everything from open gl and games programming all the way through to data types, casting of data types, variables and how to use x code and what each of the sections are for etc.
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NO!!! I have 2 Macs at home and LOVE them. I've had no trouble with them and their both over a year old. Plus now you can run PC products from them. Dells are good in price but my work computer is a Dell and I hate it. It's toooo slow. But you really get what you pay for...
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Changing to Mac is one of the best things i ever did. There were no disadvantages at all, everything about macs is better.\n\nthe software is so much better. there's not as much compared to pc, but who needs 10 pieces of software to do a job if you can have 1 that does it all better than the rest put together. Quality is better than quantity. You will soon be able to run pc programs on a mac without even having to install windows on it, so you won't have to put up with windows ever again.
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yes there are people who use Mac even today.see the link below it will tell
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Its really very Simple. If you buy a mac u can always install windows xp on the same machine. But if you buy a pc u can't install Mac OS X, iLife 06 and all great stuff from Apple and for apple. So, its very easy to decide.U can get a mac instead of a PC and when u like mac u can put windows as an option.\n \nBuying a Mac Advantage:-\n        - Mac OS X, iLife, easy to use and well integrated softwares\n        - Less viruses or almost no viruses.\n        - Can install Windows Xp - same as having a PC in Mac :)\n        - PC virus can't doing anything to Mac. so even windows xp          in the mac is affected with virus still mac is intact. ;)\n\nBuying a PC :-\n        - No Mac OS X, No great user experience, no iLife, only a pc which a Mac already has in it.\n       - Virus attacks then whole life is ruined\n\ni'm mac user for 12 years... U will love your mac when u buy and start using it and Windows XP is always an option on  a Mac with boot camp ;)
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Once Vista is actualy stable (assume 1-2 years post release) it will likely be a matter of openion. I've heard Vista has some pretty cool features, but MAC has always been a lot easyer to use and navigate.
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I will choose Apple Macintosh in accordance to it's OS - Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, due to it's based on highly reliable and stable foundation - UNIX. I have been used my new iBook for more then a year and it's really has no breakdowns or failures. Besides UNIX, the seamlessly built-in desktop search engine - Spotlight makes you finds your information just in seconds. The Mac OS or Macintosh today is truely compartible with other Windows computers, networks, disks or softwares.\n\n"It's the best operating system out here" saids Walt Mossberg, author of Personal Technology column in Wall Street Journal.
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"And i wish apple users would quit claiming they never crash...they DO. Windows XP is perfectly stable, so unless you install all the crap of the day i don't see a problem"\n\nComments like the above are from closed minded people who have not spoken to a person who is open minded and has used Mac OS X....Apple users know that Mac OS X can AND will crash....but how many Mac users have you met that have had a kernel dump (in short, a really bad type of crash) four times in one month!?!?! I work with computer operating systems of all types: FreeBSD, Windows, Mac OS X.....\nSo I know a little about about stability...\n\nYes they are expensive, but consider the following:\n\nMicrosoft has 94% of the market, how else can Apple make money, but by charging (what I think) is a little too much for a desktop....?\n\nOn the other hand the Hardware is not Dell-Cheap....($400 for a computer!?!) the hardware Apple puts together is GOOD hardware nothing cheap about it.....\n\nApple computers are not for Gamers, they are for Developers Musicians, Artist, Programmers...and so on..., but if you want something diferrent other than Linux, go with the iBook, my friend just bought her first apple product iBook with a 14.1" screen ^_^, and she loves it (speshal_kim), and she has no regrets....(she moved from a HP......running Windows XP Home Edition)\n\nHeres a Tip: READ, READ, READ about the products you buy, and search for the best deal....\n\nA few more things that can help in your decision:\n\nOne: There are only a few virus (compared to Windows), so get some kind of virus protection....\n\nTwo: You can find software to do everything on Mac OS X...\n\nHere you go: \nwww.pure-mac.com\n\nThree: Dont buy a computer in a store if you dont have to, you can save on the Tax and Shipping by purchasing your iBook online......\n\nHere is another:\nhttp://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=393032&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation\n\n\nand remember to do research before you buy your machine\n\nSometimes its just a matter of preference... ^_^
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I do, on my Macs, and, in my PCs that run http://pclinuxos.com
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I have a business that repair's and maintains computers. I own iMac's and powerbooks and use them as my choice of computer. Buy a PC so I can keep working. I have a steady customer base as long as microsoft keeps putting out their stuff. Apple updates their computers every quarter,or so it seems. you wait till fall for their new OS upgrade and then the next quarter a hardware change take your pick, jump on any time and remember no virus yet. I dont think they will change the macbook anytime soon but who knows. I recommend Mac's to all my family and freinds. Have fun.
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There isn't. Mac OSX is entirely different from Windows and there is no chance the download would work on Windows. Plus those programs are mac exclusives so there's no PC Windows version either.
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throw your pc away and get a mac
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I use Windows. Never used a Mac. I hear good things about them but I don't want to try it.
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No. Apple wants to sell its operating system, so they've developed a way (a very classified way) of preventing people from wiping the system and installing Windows on their hardware. The only way to run Windows on a Mac is to use Virtual PC.\n\nOf course, the second I posted the above (which I read in this morning's San Diego Union-Tribune), I find a contradictory article stating the opposite. Truth is, Apple isn't going to make it easy to use Windows on their system; any more so that PC makers have made it easy to put OSX on PC machines.
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a pc, mac is dumb lol, but a pc, is way better
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I have spent a lot of time using both, and there is no doubt that macs are much much better. Especially now you can run windows on one if you feel the need.