[ Mac] New Users

[Ginger Tosser]

Sounds like my Beta CS3, which for some reason has never expired.

[bingowings]

Well i walked into a mac store one day to try them out and noticed there new iWorks suite running, i started playing around with it and discovered that all of the iworks programs can save there documents into pdfs as standard, this was the sign id been waiting for as i no longer had to worry about anything i designed again, i could now produce everything in pdfs and take them to my work pc without compatibility issues, i could also now produce brochures, adverts, catalogues and anything else in pages and save them as pdfs with no problems at all.

OSX has .pdf printing built-in - it's not just iWorks. any program that has a Print... function can make them.

[kernow]

The iMacs are bang up to date, and as you say, contain all the hardware in the screen - really nice piece of kit

Not the best picture, but gives you an idea of what the current model looks like..

How strange, my girl has the exact same wallpaper (on a vista laptop though )

[JP]

How strange, my girl has the exact same wallpaper (on a vista laptop though )

It's different if you look closely at the Vista version though!












OK, I'm leaving now!!!

[Garf]

How strange, my girl has the exact same wallpaper (on a vista laptop though )

It's quite cool wallpaper, from a site called vladstudio - I only see it so often as the Mac is set to change wallpaper each day..

It's different if you look closely at the Vista version though!
OK, I'm leaving now!!!

Lol !

[fishbowlhead]

OSX has .pdf printing built-in - it's not just iWorks. any program that has a Print... function can make them.

I recently found this out as well, its a fantastic addition thats made my life so easy with my work systems still PC based


Dont suppose anyone knows where to get a cheap copy of SAGE accounts line 50 for MAC do they?

[bangaio]

Late to this game but I have used mac since running into them at uni back in PPC G3 days. I love my macbook for so many reasons such as:

OS X is so clean in both UI and as an OS
Some of the software I use has no parallels on windows eg: CSS edit, Coda, Logic studio, Skitch and as a teacher .... screenflow is simply irreplaceable.
Spotlight
Spaces
PDF printing
The design of the machine itself - even the HDD is a piece of piss to replace (amazing for a mac!)
The keyboard is lovely

If I need windows - well I still own a PC and have a work laptop (kind of needed as every machine at school is a PC) but having put of VM ware for a while I am now trialing it just in case... using screenflow with a windows desktop is to nice to miss!

[Dogg Thang]

1. i was running photoshop on pc and couldnt afford to splash out on the mac version of the same product in the same year i purchased the pc one.

This is something that would hold me back too. I use Photoshop, Flash and more and keep legit copies of these but would I have to buy them again for mac? If so, coupled with the expense of buying the machine itself, it could turn out to be a fairly hefty kick in the wallet to switch.

[Brad]

Maybe Adobe would allow some kind of cross platform upgrade/switch? Worth asking.

[Dogg Thang]

Yes, it could be worth asking, especially as I have so many Adobe products, now that they own Flash.

[Howiee]

This is something that would hold me back too. I use Photoshop, Flash and more and keep legit copies of these but would I have to buy them again for mac? If so, coupled with the expense of buying the machine itself, it could turn out to be a fairly hefty kick in the wallet to switch.

Yes, but, as I've found to my experience, you may well save a fortune in the long run in terms of reliability. I once shot wedding videos for a living and my (brand new) PC cost me a fortune in time and lost earnings due to it being an insufferable, problematic nightmare.

[fishbowlhead]

Yes, but, as I've found to my experience, you may well save a fortune in the long run in terms of reliability. I once shot wedding videos for a living and my (brand new) PC cost me a fortune in time and lost earnings due to it being an insufferable, problematic nightmare.

Plus Macs come with iLife built in which you can edit videos in straight out the box too, seems to a very professional level as well as far as editing tools go

[meppi]

Another vote of confidence over here.

I switched over about 6 months ago and even though I had a bit of trouble at first.
All new programs, different ways of doing things and basically having to forget and relearn certain parts.
But after a week or 2 everything started falling into place one I figured out which application I needed and which fit the bill for me personally.

Right now I'm at the mindset that if my Macbook Pro ever broke down I'd get another one immediately. (Unless it could be fixed of course)

I absolutely love working with it.

What I hated on my old XP laptop was that every now and again you get random problems on programs, internet connection or even in the operating system itself.
I'd lose hours upon hours fixing all that kind of stuff and get a it stressed out that I couldn't just do what I wanted to do with it.

Luckily that all seems to be in the past for me.

Like I said, the biggest problem I've had is that I had to learn how to forget doing certain things in certain ways.

Too many people probably have said this before me, but the only thing I regret is that I didn't pick up a Mac 7 years ago, like I was originally planning to.

[Taka]

Like I said, the biggest problem I've had is that I had to learn how to forget doing certain things in certain ways.

This is especially true depending on your expertise with Windows or other OSs. I considered myself a power Windows user and when I first bought my Mac, I was initially really frustrated because I had no idea where everything was or how to most effectively and efficiently use OSX. I have no doubt that somebody like my brother who's a very casual computer user would click with Macs at a much faster pace due to the more logical approach to many things and that he's not been ingrained with the way Windows works.

[fishbowlhead]

Was in the mac store earlier, have to say the mac book air is possibly the sexiest piece of kit around .

How apple got all that into kit into such a stupidly small space is beyond me, and with no loss of function as well (barring the dvd drive of course).

So who wants to buy me one then, go on ill be your friend