I have been a pc user with Microsoft all my life, and I find it confusing in so many many ways or correction, I really hate to go through sub menus up and down to do simple tasks.

Also i have to sort everything manually for albums and so on.
Word is for me a nightmare, maybe because im not an advanced user, but I want to be able to be one.
Why should I use windows when the os in Mac makes me easily understand and perform graphic tasks in a mush easier way?

I don’t have to browse menus up and down, but simply use the brilliant setup that makes it all happen automatically.
Also the presentation of this crisp software presented on the screen is a big winner.

So for a limited computer skilled person it is much better, and it would enable me to be more productive.

It took me 60 min to understand all of this.

So for me the os of Mac is supreme.
However, because I had to to get the new imac with its glossy screen and its less then impressive graphic card made me halt to a full stop!

You cant use Mac os on a pc : (
I loved the design, the beautiful silence, and even it’s not an impressive computer with regard of hardware it is good enough.

But when i intend to use it for graphic and I also want to be abele to play the new games every so often, it kills all hope.

I’ll have to face it, you get pc`s that outflank the new imac in every way.
Still I would have gone for it only for the os, if it had a just a tiny better graphics card.

But, if they upgrade this i would bee a mac user in a heartbeet.

Best regards to all of you.
Kenneth Otterlei

I moved to Mac after 7 years on windows and definitely happy with standard Mail client (i worked with outlook, thunderbird, light opera mail, web-variants), standard calendar and multimedia stuff. I also use Keynote and Pages, Opera, Firefox, Flash, Photoshop, Textmate, and very rarely MS Office. I haven’t run parallels or bootcamp for a 5 months already. Mac basically suits me, but not you.

But there is more of that. There are some opinions, that apple software knows better what you need, so you have to, say, throw away your enterprisey outlook and office and use nice and lean “mac-style” software. It is 50% bullshit, but 50% true. For instance, I clearely see great power of Excel, but don’t see any goodness in MS Word or Outlook.

I work with both OSX and Vista and let me say… There is nothing vista does that mac wasnt doing 3 years ago!

And this aqua themes and other graphic elements… are such an imitation (rip off) Mac that… I would be embarrassed to say i have been working 6 years with over 2000 programers to accomplish a imitation that still doesnt work as good

And im comparing it to OSX couple years ago… not worth comparing it to leppard.

How long have you used Vista compared to OS X? You are probably conditioned to believe that ‘the Vista way’ is ‘the right way’.

“In contrast – and surprisingly – Vista and Office 2007 just worked.”

This guy is easily surprised, and lost ALL credibility with me right there.

I mean, after 2007 versions you’d expect something to work properly, right?!

Sure, “good enough” is good enough. Unless you are one of the elite.

About directory services, ever heard of OS X Server? Not that it’s a paneca but hey, it exists. Patch management, group policies and all. And ‘pushing virus updates’? Heh. That’s not a feature you’d want to tout if you were running Macs.

I’ve heard just as many unscientific benchmarks claiming that OS X boots faster than Windows. I’m willing to call that a draw, but I’ve heard way fewer complaints of it not working at all – a la Mike.

And pushing Windows because it ‘just works’ and recommending Linux in the same breath? That nearly made my head explode.

Ross, I hate to say it, but you don’t know OS X – I don’t know Windows, but I won’t play up installing it on my laptop as a legitimate experiment to see if it will integrate well with our corporate network. If I ever jump into the hell of administering an Exchange server, I’ll be sure and give you a call!

P.S. – You are right about Entourage sucking as the database format it uses gets regularly corrupted and requires hours of rebuilds. Zero similar issues with Apple Mail. If the advertised integration of Address Book, iCal and Mail along with iCal Server and Time Machine in OS X Leopard works as planned, our office will happily be ditching Entourage for good. And it won’t be to stick it to the man, it’ll be a smart business decision. The two aren’t mutually exclusive, ya know?

I just want to wish you great luck! Vista is very, very nice, but it reallllllllly needs some 2nd gen device drivers. I forgot what it was like to be on the “bleeding edge”

Mike