Originally Posted by David79

Well my new laptop showing up tmo is half the price of the cheapest mac, cheaper then dropping $1000

how much is the cheapest Mac?

Thanks for that link Poser. I need all the help I can get. But I don't have the time to get into them right now so I'm saving all of them for when I get back from a holiday. Thanks again

Originally Posted by Poser

how much is the cheapest Mac?

A grand is what i have found, I know they are built like a tank though.

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Originally Posted by leelai

Really, give it a chance. I've been on my iPad so much I keep trying to swipe the screen. I've got to get into it more. Lion is so much better now. But it really is so different to windows.

After enduring the transition from clicking to tapping on a trackpad, I then had to get used to tapping and swiping on a screen and I also find myself swiping the screen of my laptop which I use less than 5% of the time on a daily basis. Dealing with the cord on the mouse connected to the Windows computers at work is so much more of a hassle though.

Originally Posted by Poser

did the apple store show you around?

i came from windows, and in my opinion....Mac is easier to learn than Windows, its way more simple to understand, too bad you don't wanna stick around to find out...besides you have a few days before you decide to return anyways.

and a Mac is better for iOS, plus iCloud, FaceTime, iCal, Mail, Mac app store, quicktime, iPhoto, hopefully iMessage, find your Mac, Many apps, etc etc....i would never give all of this up to go back to windows, NEVER...but i might install windows 8 on my Mac.

any questions, just ask...you might have to make your own thread, and hope i see it, or pm me that you did, also many others on here willing to help.

Thanks for your offer of help. I appreciate it.

The Apple store had a guy help set up my email, but he was a putz. I was adding my email accounts, for instance, and I asked how to change the display name. He said he didn't think I could do that. Duh. I might be an Apple idiot, but I knew that couldn't be right. He answered two other questions the same way, so I figured I was wasting my time with someone who shouldn't have been hired.

I haven't had much time to mess around with the MPB, and I don't know that I want to spend the time learning, because I use Windows exclusively at work, and that's where I do most of my computer stuff.

Originally Posted by Asharp

After enduring the transition from clicking to tapping on a trackpad, I then had to get used to tapping and swiping on a screen and I also find myself swiping the screen of my laptop which I use less than 5% of the time on a daily basis. Dealing with the cord on the mouse connected to the Windows computers at work is so much more of a hassle though.

Why not buy a cordless mouse? They start at about 20 bucks.

Logictech is a reliable brand, I've found. I have about six of its cordless ones, and haven't had one go bad over the years. The newer ones have like two years of battery life.

Originally Posted by Kaykaykay

Why not buy a cordless mouse? They start at about 20 bucks.

Logictech is a reliable brand, I've found. I have about six of its cordless ones, and haven't had one go bad over the years. The newer ones have like two years of battery life.

That's a good idea, but if I were to buy another device it would be a portable printer I could use with my iPad. Then I wouldn't have to compete with a large number of people for access to one of the limited number of computer terminals at one of the smaller campuses where I teach. (Like most professors at my institutuon, I don't have my own office at work.)

Originally Posted by Kaykaykay

Thanks for your offer of help. I appreciate it.
I haven't had much time to mess around with the MPB, and I don't know that I want to spend the time learning, because I use Windows exclusively at work, and that's where I do most of my computer stuff.

when other people read that, they get turned off...but computing these days are easy, you have google, you have forums(for help), the apple store - where you get a free 1 on 1 session to learn about your mac(from a real person that knows it), 15-30 mins and you should be more than good, which other company does that...how much is there to learn, not much. You move the mouse around and press away, same as windows...and your 1 on 1 will teach you this.

everything is more organized on a mac, the applications are no different to use, you use the web the same way.

not here to convince you, you are just giving up for no reason. you might think you know a lot about windows, but you don't, you just know the basics(many years of just basic), with a mac, you go further than basics, you have user experience, because it is so simple to learn.

take a look at this....Mac OS X Hints - A community-built collection of OS X hints

Originally Posted by Poser

when other people read that, they get turned off...but computing these days are easy, you have google, you have forums(for help), the apple store - where you get a free 1 on 1 session to learn about your mac(from a real person that knows it), 15-30 mins and you should be more than good, which other company does that...how much is there to learn, not much. You move the mouse around and press away, same as windows...and your 1 on 1 will teach you this.

everything is more organized on a mac, the applications are no different to use, you use the web the same way.

not here to convince you, you are just giving up for no reason. you might think you know a lot about windows, but you don't, you just know the basics(many years of just basic), with a mac, you go further than basics, you have user experience, because it is so simple to learn.

take a look at this....Mac OS X Hints - A community-built collection of OS X hints

Everyone's experiences will differ, and it doesn't matter to me what people buy. I figure people should use what suits them.

I'm tech lazy and am getting what I need done on Windows, so I never was motivated to switch. I just happened to need a new laptop and my husband suggested I get a Mac so he could maybe mess with it to develop stuff. (He's a dedicated PC guy who builds his own computers.) I figured why not, since iPad was so easy to pick up. But I apparently have too much Windows muscle memory when it comes to laptops.

Originally Posted by Hayles66

Windows but definitely mac next time. Spoiled by iPad.

This

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