Saint Rigger Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Heyas! Just dropping a quick decloaking note to say "Hi! I'm new here". So hi. I'm new here. A bit about myself - I'm a switcher. Back in the OS 9 and prior you couldn't get me to touch a mac - I was profoundly anti-mac in life. I clung to the joke "I was going to make my next computer a mac, but Toys R Us was closed." So as a college student I lived an anti-mac lifestyle. When I got a full time job at another college they decided to make me "The Mac Guy" because I was the only one who had any unix experience and OS X was just debuting. It was a little tricky for me at first, but really I enjoyed it. I also liked having this "Forbidden knowledge" that noone else had . With each new release of 10.x I fell more in love. I got a 12" powerbook that I was initially really disappointed with because of it's size - but after carrying it a while, I didn't want to go with anything larger. the 12" PB was the size and weight of a textbook and make it a blast to carry around in my shoulder bag at work and grad school. Eventually I reluctantly accepted a 13" MacBook for a project - and then switched to a 15" MacBook pro because the 13" wasn't powerful enough for my needs. (I'm working on a switch/ virtulization project where we gave some MBs to faculty members - who prefer windows - with parallels to see how they use them) I'm also a pretty big gamer so while my mac became my prefered tool at work, I always kept a PC at home to game with. I did manage to get my sister to switch to a mac laptop for gradschool - and I replaced my mothers ailing old PC with a mac because 1) I got tired of fixing and monkeying with it all the time and 2) It's a much easier and intuitive interface for her to use. She no longer calls me with problems - but calls me to tell me what new trick she has learned. Anyways - back to gaming - I installed Company of Heroes (which is pretty hardware intensive) on my MBP and it plays quite nicely. This was my last excuse for holding out with my PC - so I think when the time comes, I'm going totally mac and replacing my PC with a 24" iMac (I'd love a Mac Pro - but they are really too spendy for me). An interesting comparison - when I got the game, I first installed it on my PC - and it didn't run because my video drivers were out of date - so the game took about 15 minutes to install, then another 10 minutes to dowlonad and update my video drivers which caused me a whole bunch of other problems which ultimately took another 45 minutes. I installed it under XP on my laptop and totaly time to get the game running was 15 minutes (to be fair, it was a fresh install of XP - so everything was updated and the drivers were the latest provided by apple - but still, as a guy who works in IT I found it really interesting how painless everything was - even with windows) I can't see why I'd want to carry any other piece of hardware - since I can run OSX which does just about everything I want nicely, I can run XP really well under boot camp and should I decide I can set up a few other virtual machines for software development and to just monkey with. So that is me in a large nutshell. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dice7 Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Nice to have you here... Welcome to InsanelyMac.com Dice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Step right in, beer's in the back Cheers, hecker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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