Goodbye Mac, Hello Windows Vista

Fernando Barsallo said:

Well, I guess my experience is opposite to yours.  I had been a PC user since DOS, then Windows, 95, 98, 2000, XP, etc And I got tired of it.  I wont talk bad about Windows because as others expressed I believe it to be a matter of choice, but three years ago I found enough personal reasons to switch to Mac, with the first Intel MacBooks and one year later with an iMac, and I have not regret it one bit.  My upgrade to Leopard was flawless and so far I think I can count the times any of our Macs have crashed with the fingers of one hand. 
I also own, between myself and my kids, a first gen Video iPod, a 2nd gen Nano, a 3rd gen Nano, and still in the family even a Mini, and all of these have worked flawlessly so far, except for the mini which had to have it’s battery replaced.  So, as far as quality and reliability of products, I think I will stick with Apple for the time being.  Maybe we will need to keep an eye on big brother and make sure he doesn’t go evil on us. So we’ll wait and see, meanwhile I remain a loyal Apple customer.
Good Luck with Vista, may the force be with you…

Kevin said:

It’s a pleasure to find a sane commentary on the PC v’‘s Mac debate for a change.  I appreciate your honestly and courage to do the exact opposite of what many have been preaching - leaving the Mac for Vista!.

I am sick and tired of constantly hearing from the ‘religious zealots’ in regard to which is the best operating system.  Who cares?  It’s a personal choice like everything else in this world.

I currently dual boot between XP and Ubuntu - both stable and bullet proof.  I probably would have moved to linux totally except for their relative lack of drivers. At this stage,  I’ll wait for win 7 before I decide on a future computer system.

I agree that as the Mac market share continues to grow there will be more and more quality issues for them to deal with,  just like Microsoft.  Potentially, this may impact on them in a much bigger way than PC’s , especially as they have made quality and reliability ‘the’ intrinsic feature of Mac’s.

Thank you again for the ‘balance’.

Martin Turner said:

Interesting. It sounds like you were probably too in love with the Mac to begin with. It’s bad luck, I think, that your most recent Mac was hiccupping, although I’ve found over the years with both Macs and Windows that the new computer you buy is always vastly better than the one you used to put up with (otherwise, you’d send it back, right?). Most users have not been reporting remarkably stable Windows performance against Macs on machines of the same vintage, but it’s your own experience which is the most telling for yourself, and that’s what counts.
I switched from Windows to Mac in 1996 as my primary personal computer, though I’ve carried on using both devices concurrently ever since. I find the Windows experience more fiddly, but there are also websites that don’t support Macs (though they are getting rare). I’ve never been able to get up the semi-religious devotion to Apple that some people have — I’m a fan, but I’ve never had the corresponding urge to denounce Microsoft and all its works.
Bill Gates has done the world a lot of good, and people who see ‘Apple - good, Microsoft - evil’ or even ‘Mac -user friendly, Windows - unfriendly’ are, in my view, setting themselves up for a big surprise when they finally try out a Windows PC and see what it can do.
Notwithstanding all that, I’m happier with Apple than I’ve ever been before. If I lost my computer, all my software, and all my backups tomorrow, and had to start completely from scratch, I would be going to the Apple store, not to Windows.

Chuck said:

Kate,

Why don’t you give a one month update, a six month update, and—-if you stick with Vista—-a one year update?

I’d be curious to see what you like, don’t like, miss, don’t miss, etc.

Chuck

Gruffydd said:

I personally believe that people should not be attached so religiously to an utility object. But, then again, it’s just human nature. The first time I used a computer ever it was a Mac (512K, with no hard disk. Yes, prehistoric times) and I have used Windows since version 3.1 with some stints in the Linux world (2002 and 2004). I decided to create a blog about Vista because I found totally unfair what they say about it. Yes it WAS not so good in 2007 but now with SP1 is really good. Mac computers are a thing of beauty (hardware and software), granted. I like both systems. And it is like cars. Just because I love BMW, should I not like Mercedes and Nissans and Mazdas? I love software and I can’t help to notice when something is worth appreciating and using.

dave said:

I did the same, Vista is a very solid O/S far more professional than OSX imo.
I went windows in feb this year and have had no problems.
Im not as brave as you , I wouldnt give my email as a friend did the same and was bombarded with insults.
Im afraid your correct, with Apple its the iway or the highway.
good luck

Jonas said:

Katherine, it was certainly a good read.
It’s interesting to see your reasons to switch to Vista.
To be honest I never played with a Mac ever, so I just followed a link in the hilarious fake Steve Ballmer blog in order to get here.

I do not love nor hate Microsoft, for me, as long as it works fine for what I need to do, I don’t feel the urge to bash on a company nor their products.
Customer service is something I never care about because I have never needed it.

Vista doesn’t suck like many people say. It works fine for me, and all the applications and hardware peripherals that I have. I even have the “evil” 64bit version, and guess what? Even my super old el cheapo capture card works flawlessly.
So it’s more a disinformation movement started by some people that, perhaps need to get out more and get some real friends, the one that tells people how evil Vista is and how much it sucks and fails, which is far from the truth, at least for me (using it since February).

It’s even funny, that some of these Vista bashers ask others to stay with XP and wait for Windows 7… when we already know Windows 7 is like Vista 2.0, using the same kernel architecture and all (not like some early informational reports claiming it would introduce the use of a new micro-kernel architecture featuring a farewell to the current “ohh so bloated and sucky” one).

That’s all. I guess all I wanted to say is that, it’s nice to find intelligent people like you around, and not intelligent because you switched, but intelligent in the sense you don’t feel the need or the urge to follow an e-religion or bashing movement.

bye bye

zal said:

good luck, but you making a BIG BIG BIG Mistake.
You probably don’t know, but Gates left Microsoft for a reason.

He saw that WINDOZ is in the DYING STAGES.
Now, Microsoft has a plan to KILL VISTA and planning a “NEW” “OS”, which they say, will be “totally different”.
HA…HA…HA…

NONONONONO…. it’s over for WINDOz, and it’s over for Microsoft.
They are still trying to take over all kinds companies hoping the new products will help them stay alive.
But if you think a little harder you’ll understand that their time is over. Their monopoly on PC was almost 30 years.
There is not much they can do now to save the windoz.
Their new OS won’t help.
APPLE now in the lead and won’t be stopped.
Up until last January I knew only Windows for 15 years, nothing more. Until I switched to iMac.
Both systems are not comparable, it’s a day and night.
iMac/Mac is light, silent, gentle, with a brilliant amazing screen elegantly designed for a human.
PC is loaded with so much garbage, that by the time you start using it, it’s already a 10-ton truck.

Before you switch, think twice. You’ll be wasting most of your time dealing with anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware, anti-malware, cleaning, defragmenting, patching…etc…etc…
In two years windoz will be gone. period.