[X] My Assistant

[Guest_Sunspot_*]

Anyone here own one of these tiny computers or used one? I'm thinking about getting one to replace by ancient PC.

[nprev]

EGD, it isn't just artistic types that are into Macs. Most design engineers I've known prefer them for their graphics capabilities.

I'm like you, though; I drank the PC Kool-Aid long, long ago, and have no wish to start from scratch with a new OS.

[djellison]

start from scratch with a new OS.

I was nervous as well. In reality, It takes about 12 seconds to get used to it, 12 minutes to figure out 99% you'll ever need to know. This is how quickly I switched: I found a program to backup email into a format that OSX Mail could import - dumped my desktop/my documents/MMB Library to a backup drive, and put my Dell laptop to one side and cranked open the Macbook- fully expecting to return to the Dell to do something I couldn't figure out on my Mac for weeks if not months to come.

I kept the Dell for 3 months before putting in a blank HDD, reinstalling windows and putting it on Ebay. The is the only time I used it since I'd turned on my Macbook. I was amazed. I know where to go to set networking settings, sort out printers, do the power options for sleeping. I can do partitions, formatting. Installing stuff is just drag...drop. Done. Uninstalling..drag...drop...done. It's not perfect, nothing with silicon in it can be ( err...you know what I mean ) - but having thought I would need a time to adjust to emigrating...I just didn't.

And EVERY time I give a talk on MER etc - someone will ask "How did you do that ...that's not powerpoint is it?"

Doug